Barack Obama reveals annual list of favourite books
Incidentally his memoir, A Promised Land also came out this year. He, however, did not include it, even though he opined that he thinks it is a pretty good book Updated: December 18, 2020 9:11:21 pm
Check out the list here. (AP/file)
The year is almost about to end and former US President Barack Obama has come up with a list of books that he enjoyed the most this year. Incidentally his memoir,
A Promised Land also came out this year
. He, however, did not include it even though he opined that he thinks it “is a pretty good book.”
Recommendations from The Bookstore at the End of the World
December 16, 2020
On a good year, everything about the publishing industry seems designed for anxiety: an author’s fear that they won’t be read or understood, a publisher’s hand-wringing about profits and losses; a publicist’s neurosis about shrinking review coverage; a reader’s sense of foreboding about the accumulating stacks on their tables and chairs and floors; a designer’s tension about kerning or whatever troubles designers anyway; and a bookseller’s limitless concern about all of the above, plus or minus the kerning. And this year, with the perfect clarity of two-zero-two-zero, all of that was buried beneath new anxieties: will I ever see my family again? Will I be killed and/or abducted in the street by government thugs? Will my business burn to the ground in a paroxysm of righteous anger at white supremacy? Will my seamless order ever fucking arrive? Why won’t my cousins wear masks? They voted for
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Todd Gloria evidently has been preparing to become mayor of our country’s eighth largest city since he was a kid attending Hawthorne Elementary School in Clairemont.
Before being sworn in as San Diego’s 37th mayor on Dec. 10, he confided in a tweet that 32 years ago he was a finalist in a “Mayor for a Day” essay contest for local school kids.
Even at age 10, Todd Gloria had ambitions to be San Diego mayor.
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Gloria, 42, later explained to me the competition was sponsored by then-Mayor
Maureen O’Connor. “I don’t recall the specific details of my essay, but I’m pretty sure it was aligned with my current big city vision,” he recalls. He referred me to
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A dying friend asks the narrator to see her through her last weeks, a request that becomes the backdrop for musings on aging, climate change and the underrated gift of attention. It could be grim, but it’s transporting.
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Sexually assaulted as a teen at an elite New Hampshire boarding school, the author buried the trauma and tried to live her life. Decades later other incidents at the school prompted this brave, searing and unputdownable reckoning.
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