We all love reading. Or at least we hope you do if you’re holding this newspaper in your hands or hanging out on our website. But it can be challenging to slice out space in our overly busy lives to read, especially to sit down with a long read like a book.
We tell ourselves we’ll get around to it on our summer beach vacations, but even then many of us will look back and realize the minutes slipped away as we stared at our phones, yelled after the kids or drifted off to sleep in the midday sun.
But we want to read more. We long for authors to take us to lands we wouldn’t otherwise visit, to worlds we wouldn’t otherwise imagine or to decipher the landscape around us. So with such little time on our hands and such a strong desire to read more good books, it makes sense for someone to compile a list, complete with summaries and analysis, of which books are worth your fleeting free moments.
We chose books with local ties — either the writer, publisher or subject — many of them from our own backyard.
That’s just the sort of paper we are.
Whether you’re looking for a hilarious romp alongside a fictional female DJ, a guide to creating social change, a primer on voting rights or an insightful and true wilderness trek tale, there’s something here for you. The authors range from a Greensboro native with a fashion career to the president of High Point University to the winner of a Winston-Salem publisher’s fiction award.
And if there isn’t something in here that grabs your interest, we’re pretty sure you don’t like reading anyway.
- A moment with Whitney
- Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2015
- Midnight Bowling by Quinn Dalton, Carolina Wren Press, 2016
- Revolutionize Now: Creative Leadership & Action for Social Change by Jada Monica Drew, self published, 2016
- Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland by Ken Ilgunas, Blue Rider Press, 2016
- Naked DJ by Jo Maeder, Vivant Press, 2016
- F**K IVY **and Everything Else by Mark McNairy, Harper Design, 2016
- Daily Motivation: 365 Messages to Inspire You at Work and in Life, by Nido R. Qubein, Simple Truths, 2016
- Notable books with local connections
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I use to really enjoy Whitney’s show and I liked her message with the no bs campaign to teach younger people self confidence. HOWEVER, I feel like her message is becoming less about being proud of yourself and more about being overweight and proud of it. I would never want my child to grow up to think being hundreds of pounds over weight is ok just because you have strong self esteem! I also wouldn’t want my child to think being underweight is ok either. When will these body positive people stop! My personal opinion is you should not be proud of being fat or even underweight. Both of these things come with health risks and putting that message out to young people is not safe. These body positive people really make me irritated we should be teaching our kids health lifestyle habits and to be proud of their positive life choices not to stand tall and proud of being pretty in a size 20.
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