Digg Book Picks: Exploring Caverns, The Cuban Revolution And More
If you're on the lookout for your next read, we have a few recommendations. The following selection is what's currently on our radar, and there's plenty of entertainment and thoughtful insight here to keep you turning pages for days.
'Underland: A Deep Time Journey' by Robert Macfarlane
From the history of burial to sea caves in Norway to storage of nuclear waste, this smart book from Robert Macfarlane tasks us with thinking about everything that's out of sight. In the New York Times, Dwight Garner calls this title "fearless and subtle, empathic and strange," so you won't finish up without feeling something deep down.
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'Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba' by Andrew Feldman
David Shribman, in his write-up at the LA Times, explains how "Ernesto" is actually "three books in one." There is more than just a Hemingway bio in these pages, it also explores the broader cultural moment and the Cuban Revolution itself. And in a way, each part informs the others.
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'Tell Me How You Really Feel' by Aminah Mae Safi
Inspired by the fandom surrounding the Gilmore Girls, this young adult romance novel has something of a built-in fanbase. However, reviewer Alethea Kontis clarifies in her NPR piece that this is "an enemies-to-lovers story that stands out all on its own."
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'The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction' by Daniel Brook
The failure of Reconstruction is often brushed over or simplified in classrooms, but that moment in American history deserves much more care and analysis. NPR writer Kamil Ahsan says that this release "goes a long way to injecting thoughtfulness into popular notions of the history of race and racism in America," but he quickly notes that Brook "doesn't go far enough."
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