Daughter Number Three: The Line-Up

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

I think I've mentioned that I go to several family reunions each year.

Tony Carillo's "F Minus" cartoon nailed an aspect of the family reunion world a few days ago:

I identify with this, and Daughter Number Three-Point-One does as well.

As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and why Things Are Better than You Think by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Fangirl and Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
My Real Children and The Just City by Jo Walton
The Shape of a Hundred Hips by Patricia Cumbie
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
The World We Made by Jonathon Porritt

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter
Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
Just Food by James E. McWilliams
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs
Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Nabhan
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

1491 and 1493 by Charles C. Mann
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Citizens of the Empire by Robert Jensen
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution by Marjorie Kelly
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt