Books That Have Inspired me in the Past Two Years

that I have yet to elaborate on. The book about Immersion and Caravaggio, the book about the History of the Shadow. Dark Money revealing the underground network of big money and it's paid lobbyists. These tend to be the big polluters. Enrique's Journey- how difficult it is for kids to immigrate to America from Guatemala and Central America- in this case to see his mother after she left to start over. He rode the trains alone in fierce determination to see her, he succeeded. A very difficult endeavor. I also read No One is Illegal by Mike Davis, No Place to Hide by Glen Greenwald, The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich (who married Joe Lash and Trude Pratt). I read the Socialist Manifesto by the founder of Jacobin magazine Bhaskar Sunkara. I read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. Could not stomach the Mueller report. Could not stomach Fire and Fury. Roland Barthes mythologies. Sand and Blood by Frey. Writing down the Bones by Goldberg. I read various Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now & The Better Angels of Our Nature. I agree in many areas things are improving- yet take into account global warming and why aren't humans applying our inventions towards socialist economies and green energy. For example, the invention of the Ox Yoke changed humanity greatly for farming- why isn't solar energy seen as the new yoke? This indeed would cause catastrophe. I also read Ben Franklin, Leonardo DaVinci, and Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. They aren't 100% feminist in my opinion however they are guilty pleasures. Forged in Crisis has that grittiness of the human character I love by Nancy Kohn and includes women's biographies ( I have a weakness for biography). I sharked two volumes about Eleanor Roosevelt by Nancy Wisen Cook. I escaped the everyday in The Order of Time by Carl Rovelli. I sunk into my subconscious with Carl Jung with Memories, Dreams and Reflections. Robert A. Caro was a good way to understand how patriarchy works. He wrote about Lyndon Johnson (Master of the Senate) and Robert Moses (The Power Broker), every now and then you would get a glimpse of the Kennedys. His details are so profound, so lucid and accurate, he typed away in New York City's library alongside the author of The Feminist Mystique (I also read his book on working). I read Blood Oil by Leif Wenar half way after hearing him at Town Hall. Totally demystifies our insatiable and devastating culture of oil. Picked up Noam Chomsky Who Rules the World, half way through I took a break. I am going back to Noam. Read Strange Justice 1/2 way by Jane Meyer. Read pieces of Thoreau's Walden. I loved How Language Began by Everett because painting to me is a form of language. Energy and Civilization 1/2 way by Smil- again please apply technology to advancement m community building and democracy (i.e. easy voting, planning communities that cause 0 environmental degradation). Cpital City by Samuel Stein- a must read companion with The Color of Law. Almost done with How to be an Anti Racist by Kendi. Began Perfect Wave by Dave Hickey for like 3 hours. Falter by Bill McKibben- founder of 350 Seattle. Thirty pages left, excellent reality check on global warming, companion book to Naomi Klein's A Burning Case for the Green New Deal. I'm always reading John Dewey when I can: Art as Experience and How We Think. I'm audioing The Sixth Extinction. I want to reread both Steven Greenblatt's books The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve and Will in the World: How Shakespear became Shakespear. For business I read Red Thread Thinking and This is Marketing by Seth Goden and Tiny Habbits. Also The Spirit Level by Wilkinson and Pickett. All of this was to prepare me for poetry class, because poetry is a more profound reward. I had a short story addiction phase with Tobias Wolff and another-