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I’m on the road for work, but I still want to share 5 things I was looking at and loving this week, including the sunset on my drive through rural Mississippi.
I just started reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, a modern-day riff on Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, set rural in Appalachia and dealing with opioid addiction and poverty — and I can’t put it down. The way Kingsolver can get you into a character’s head and develop their voice is absolutely captivating.
Speaking of books, I put The Chaos Machine on my “want to read” list. A friend took a step back from social media recently, but before leaving, she listed a bunch of books that she was reading about how social media is rewiring our minds and the world. Her choices also reminded me of the first book I read that really opened my eyes to the downside of social media. The Circle is fiction but believable and highly recommended.
In the 1940s, photographer Kegham Djeghalian opened the first photo studio in Gaza City. His images show life in the city before it was transformed by war.
40 Things I Wish I’d Known at 40 and 5 Things You Should Do After 7pm
I got a first-person look at this when I was volunteering at a local mutual aid society, and thought it was a great reminder of what to (and just as importantly, what not to) donate to foodbank, as the giving season fast approaches.