Life/Book Update

Hi everyone! I am currently writing from Atlanta, Georgia (my birthplace and now residence). After three days of running down the street in search of moving boxes and frantically throwing all of my clothes in my suitcase, I am no longer in Boston. Things are obviously really crazy right now and I am spending most of my time trying not to freak out. Thankfully being home also means I have been reunited with my bookshelf. Here is a picture of the only thing holding me together right now. 

The bookshelf is so full that it’s leaning forward to an unsafe extent (I have two rows of books on each shelf so there are even more books behind the ones in the front). Also, notice the complete embarrassing lack of any adult books. What can I say? I love YA.

I thought I might spend part of this post talking about all of the books I bought on my trip to San Francisco a few weeks ago. My best friend took me to Green Apple Books which was an amazing experience. Many of the books they had were used and the store was so big it not only had two floors but two separate buildings. While I was there I bought issue one of the comic Deadly Class, Conversations with a Friend (at the recommendation of Professor Stockman, hopefully, I will read some basic fiction now that I, like all of us, are stuck in quarantine) and this really weird book I got for my friend about Alice from Alice in Wonderland on a drug trip.  

I also thought I might include some pictures of the books I have seen while traveling that we have talked about in this class. 

I obviously kept seeing American Dirt everywhere and at a certain point had to hold back from taking another picture of this book. Honestly, my phone camera roll is filled with this cover now. When I was in Green Apple Books and saw American Dirt I knew I had another photo to add to my collection. I noticed the notecard on top of the stack and assumed that it would be some kind of recommendation or summary but when I looked closer I noticed that it was a list of books under the name “... more reads on the subject of immigration”. Was this Green Apple Books being shady? I am curious as to what they were hinting at by placing a list of other books about immigration on top of the stack so that you would have to acknowledge it before taking a copy of American Dirt for yourself. 

I know that this is a really bad photo but when I was in the airport waiting for my flight I saw copies My Dark Vanessa displayed and had to take a picture. 

Hopefully, by next week, I will have used this time of social isolation to read more books but knowing me I will probably just rewatch the Office. Stay safe everyone!