Sunday Salon ~ one library book

Library Loot

It's been three weeks since I wrote about putting Amy Suskind's The List (2018) on reserve at the library, and now I have it.  I probably won't read the whole thing, which is over 400 pages long with an additional 100+ pages of Notes and Index.  Opening it at random, I read from Week 50 (item number 104 on page 370):

140.  Corker responded, telling CNN about his previous support of Trump that he "would not do that again," and said Trump has "great difficulty with the truth."

I can flip open the book to any page and read with terrible consistency about Trump's lying, hatred, bigotry, and corruption.  It's almost too much, almost overwhelming.  Maybe I should simply skim through parts of the book and read what Amy Suskind posts each week online.  This quote from Week 87, posted yesterday, is about the pregnant women being denied medical care while being held in ICE detention:

49.  The editorial board added, “This is the kind of behavior that, when carried out by non-superpowers, gets people hauled before the International Criminal Court or some special war crimes tribunal.”

Are you excited to learn that "ICE will be hiring more than 300 new agents and scores of staffers" (from item number 55)?

And then there's this telling photo at the end of the 169 items on the list this week.  It's so symbolic of how Trump is totally out of sync with other world leaders at the NATO summit.

On my Kindle

Reading now

In the Beginning: Science Faces God in the Book of Genesis ~ by Isaac Asimov, 1981, science and theology

Just finished

October the First Is Too Late ~ by Fred Hoyle, 1966, science fiction, 8/10

Youth ~ by Isaac Asimov, 1952, science fiction, 8/10

Up next

The Weight of Ink ~ by Rachel Kadish, 2017, historical fiction (set in 1660s London, winner of the National Jewish Book Award)

Just purchased today

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared ~ by Jonas Jonasson, 2012, fiction

What's this sign have to do with anything?  In Trump's America, refugees and immigrants are considered "illegal" and are being punished even when they are doing the very things our forefathers (and mothers) did by coming to this country ... unless our ancestors were in that first category.  If I "check all that apply," I'd tick off the bottom one or two.  My people arrived as immigrants from France, England, Scotland, and Ireland.  Those from Ireland could have been refugees from the 1845-1849 potato famine.  All I know is that my mother's ancestors came from those four countries.

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