1GenevieveAOK
I loved the segment in the August State of the Thing about the books by the U.S. candidates for President and Vice President.
I think this conversation should include Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, a collection of works by many Appalachians written in critique and rebuttal of J.D. Vance's book.
And because I work in a Children's department, I'll include Kamala and Maya's Big Idea, a picture book by Vice President Harris's niece based on the true story of her aunt and mother organizing to develop a playground when they were kids.
I think this conversation should include Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, a collection of works by many Appalachians written in critique and rebuttal of J.D. Vance's book.
And because I work in a Children's department, I'll include Kamala and Maya's Big Idea, a picture book by Vice President Harris's niece based on the true story of her aunt and mother organizing to develop a playground when they were kids.
2timspalding
>2 timspalding:
Thanks for the response. So far I've received two angry responses--both saying I was unfair to Trump and Vance. C'est la vie. I thought it was pretty even-handed.
FWIW, the book you mentioned was part of the NPR story I linked to, but thanks for the touchstone link. The latter book I was unaware of, and would make a good potential addition, although if I opened it up to books by family members, the Trump section would get a lot longer, both pro- and anti-Trump (Ivanka Trump, Ivana Trump, Mary L. Trump, Donald J. Trump Jr., Marla Maples, Jared Kushner, etc.).
Had I written it today, I would have used Walz's DNC speech last night. Here's where he talked about book bans: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5129530/user-clip-walz-book-bans
Thanks for the response. So far I've received two angry responses--both saying I was unfair to Trump and Vance. C'est la vie. I thought it was pretty even-handed.
FWIW, the book you mentioned was part of the NPR story I linked to, but thanks for the touchstone link. The latter book I was unaware of, and would make a good potential addition, although if I opened it up to books by family members, the Trump section would get a lot longer, both pro- and anti-Trump (Ivanka Trump, Ivana Trump, Mary L. Trump, Donald J. Trump Jr., Marla Maples, Jared Kushner, etc.).
Had I written it today, I would have used Walz's DNC speech last night. Here's where he talked about book bans: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5129530/user-clip-walz-book-bans
3knerd.knitter
Another by VP Harris's niece: Ambitious Girl
4gilroy
>2 timspalding: I suspect if the list wasn't an entirely glowing, bow down, wonderful presentation of all candidates with no negative takes, you'd get an angry response.
(I don't read the book recommendation lists so not sure what it offered. Just know how some people react to things.)
(I don't read the book recommendation lists so not sure what it offered. Just know how some people react to things.)
5MarthaJeanne
https://www.librarything.com/readmessage.php?msgID=938796a4e2f6de555f720d0193c31...
So that we can see what was actually there.
>2 timspalding: Of course it was unfair to Trump and Vance. Just follow the links to the various books and compare the ratings. A lot more people have entered The truths we hold and rating is 4.09 than Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again with a rating of 3.23. Trump: The Art of the Deal has more copies, but the rating is still 3.34.
So that we can see what was actually there.
>2 timspalding: Of course it was unfair to Trump and Vance. Just follow the links to the various books and compare the ratings. A lot more people have entered The truths we hold and rating is 4.09 than Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again with a rating of 3.23. Trump: The Art of the Deal has more copies, but the rating is still 3.34.
7timspalding
>5 MarthaJeanne:
LibraryThing is not responsible for members' ratings of books!
Edit: I'm thinking that you think the rating is a measure of copies? Ratings are ratings--the star ratings members apply to a book. A book can have one copy an a five-star rating or 100,000 copies and a one-star rating. They're not connected.
LibraryThing is not responsible for members' ratings of books!
Edit: I'm thinking that you think the rating is a measure of copies? Ratings are ratings--the star ratings members apply to a book. A book can have one copy an a five-star rating or 100,000 copies and a one-star rating. They're not connected.
