Bibliokitty

It has been a while since I last read a book that took me as long to read as it took me to read Stamped from the Beginning – over two weeks! You can tell that Kendi put a lot of effort into researching and writing this book, so it is only fair that I took my time to read it, to really absorb the information in this book. I ended up re-reading certain passages, and I have underlined and flagged a lot of pages. I could write an essay about this book, but I am going to keep my review succinct because I think that you should read Stamped from the Beginning for yourself. It focuses on racism in America, but really it explains the racist behaviour of white people on a global scale, because, let’s face it, racism is about people of white European descent thinking they are better than everyone else on this planet.

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I mentioned in my last review that I do not read a lot of non-fiction, but I have made it a goal this year to diversify my reading list. Tom Phillips’ Humans: A Brief History of How We F***ed It All Up examines human history and how we keep making the same f**kups over and over again without learning from them. I actually enjoyed reading this book and thought it was interesting (until I finished it, and then I felt sad lol). Phillips injects humour into his writing, which helps make the very heavy subject matter more palatable.

Warning: the rest of this post contains a lot of F-bombs.

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