First Book of 2018! Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

[Gesa]

Dear Emma / OSS team,

please don't ever consider not continuing this wonderful book club. It has united so many booklovers and feminists and has truly been an inspiration. The effect it has in different parts of the world cannot be measured but I for one have learned so much and feel really empowered by this community and by the books we read. Keep going! X

[Dawn]

Excited to read, but legitimately surprised my library doesn't have it. New York Public Library ( Manhattan , Bronx and Staten Island of NYC) has only one copy which is to be used in library only! Hopefully NYC shared shelf readers can donate their copies. I'm going to request the library buys more copies through their site as well.

[The Joana Edit || JR]

Going to read it. Not straight away but I will.... and I’ll post my opinion here later!

The Book Worm
http://myworldasabookworm.blogspot.co.uk

[Anna Francesca]

I look forward to reading this book and thank you for continuing Our Shared Shelf! 📚💜

[Megan]

I can't agree more with everything said, this post is so honest and raw, I couldn't be more thankful to belong to such an educating and empowering community. Im currently writing my dissertation regarding gender within advertisements and even through that I'm learning so much about the many types of feminism and realising so much about my privilege as a white woman. So I really can't wait to educate myself further and read this book, as I feel like the more I learn the more liberated I am in standing up for others.

[Dagny Moland]

What a great pick, can't wait to read it! The Power is sitting on my bed side table waiting for me, just have to finish the three books I am currently reading :)

On the subject of this month's book I have to mention "Exterminate all the brutes" by Sven Lindqvist. I read this book on the recommendation of Gloria Steinem (http://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curator...). A harrowing, eye-opening book that will stay with me forever.

[Dana]

Thank you for your recommendations. I haven't read them all but those I have have altered my perspective in useful ways. This one will, too.

[Karen]

Loved this letter so much! this is vital

[Tracy]

Thoughtful reflections as always Emma. I too am looking forward to this read. Thanks for continuing OSS. Happy New Year.

[Denise]

I’m looking forward to reading this book! I took a college course recently that really made me think and examine race and white privilege. In looking for more information, I came across this book and requested it from the library. Hopefully I will get it soon!

[[deleted user]]

Oh fabulous, this is a book I've been meaning to read but haven't yet - now I have an excuse to buy it! :-)

[Abi]

Thank you Emma for continuing this incredibly important book club. Joining it when you first formed the group has changed my perspective on life in many different ways (and I know will continue to do so). I had a difficult time last year learning I was not going to be able to have children and so this has impacted some of the reading; a few titles I’ve had to put on my ‘to read’ shelf when I’m feeling a bit stronger. However, being a member of this group gave me confidence to seek out female writers on the subject of womanhood and motherhood, which has been invaluable in preparing me for my hysterectomy. I’m looking forward to starting our new book for 2018 and wish all members a happy new year. Abi x

[Shana]

thanks for a choice sure to make each of us think, find insight, cause for disagreement, dismay, delight and potentially for changing ourselves and possibly even our community. looking forward to it. Still hoping to find an irl Meetup to discuss these books, but the online discussions are truly global and interesting. Happy 2018, glad to walk/read with you!

[Patricia]

I'm really looking forward to reading this book! I've encountered this perspective in the past, but I haven't read much on the topic, honestly. Can't wait!

[Anna]

What a beautiful beautiful post from you to welcome our community to the new year Emma
this just brought me to tears and I’m feeling so empowered and ready to start the new year now! So many good things have happened already like the start of the Time‘s Up Campaign! Let’s make this year revolutionary😊

[Meghan]

Yes!! This book is on my list. Can’t wait to read it!

[Omar]

❤️

[Omar]

Happy new year Emma I wish a great year for you,and I looking forward to read this book 🌹

[Lucy]

Amazing and very accurate subject!

[Marzie]

Wonderful choice. Looking forward to it.

[Jammin Jenny]

This sounds like an awesome book and I look forward to reading/discussing with everyone !

[Celine]

Can’t wait to read the book! Thank you for recommending it!❤️

[Snorki]

Really interesting choice to start the year. I expect it will be challenging and thought-provoking; the type of book that you want to discuss with people. Great to get the opportunity to do that in this forum!

[Emanuelly]

Good Choice, I hope to find this book to read in Brazil, Happy new years Emma !

[Flavia]

Thanks, Hope this book Will Be translated in italian...

[Mridula]

Bravo on this choice and thank you for sharing your personal experience. I look forward to the read.

Happy 2018 to you and yours!

[Deila]

I look forward not only to reading this, but hopefully to participating in some discussions on the content as the rest of the shared shelf engages with it. As part of the great american melting pot, hailing from at least 8 known ethic backgrounds of nearly equal proportions, how others react to/approach/acknowledge/dispute or otherwise behave around the topic of race is fascinating to me.

[Kris]

Excited to read this book and discuss it. I’m new to the group, but it’s obvious that everyone in OSS has worked to create an amazing, open, and supportive community!

[Kytriya]

Emma wrote: "Dear OSS,

There is so much racism, both in our past and present, that is not acknowledged and accounted for. I know this to be the case from my own education, and I know there is so much more for..."

I can not wait to read this book! I have always been curious about Racism in the UK. The vote to leave the EU was considered a racist move. I thought of it as a safety for Jews move only because in my Bible (both the Tanakh and the Holy Bible) say that in the last days, all nations will come against Israel and try to exterminate the Jews. Thus I see some not being unified, as a good thing, but still think we all need to be unified against Racism and for Peace.

[Justyna]

On Amazon UK for 1.99 GBP atm. Just got mine. It looks like a good one <3

[Madeline]

Thanks, Emma, for starting (and continuing) this group. I am excited to be more involved with it this year and to learn beside you. ❤️

[Karen]

I've already got this on my list of books to read this year, so glad to see it as the first choice for this group :)

[Gemma]

I've been meaning to read this book for ages - thank you for prompting me to do so! Buying it now.

[Chatti]

I'm excited to read this. Thank you for such an eloquent letter to introduce your choice.

[B]

Emma- thank you for encouraging the “interrogation of self” and the acknowledgement of the necessary (but worthwhile) difficulty that goes along with it. I hope this inspires more people to engage in these valuable, essential behaviors that not only serve for the betterment of the self but for the community, the collective, our world. Our society provides such easily accessible distraction and promotes the avoidance of challenge making the undertaking that much more difficult— but with people like you encouraging others to just give it a try and assuring they’ll be better for it, there is hope!

You’re an inspiration. Keep up all your wonderful work!

[Nataly]

Happy new year, Emma! <3

[Charlotte]

This bookclub has made me want to read again. To read about topics that I'd be afraid to tackle all by myself.
Thanks so much for the inspiration, the lessons àd the laughs as well. I just finished the Power and am ready for all the other books I have yet to read.

Thank you Emma and thank you people of our shared shelf ❤

[Giorgia]

So interesting! Can’t wait to pick it up!
Happy new year!! Xxx

[Fiona]

Emma, your post has awakened me to jump back on the bus and I look forward to reading your book choice. Really looking forward to it! Thank you.

[Sharmaine Erika]

Hello Emma, I am quite excited to read this book :) and also I want you to know that I’m glad you created this book club, anyways, have a wonderful new year! xx

[Megan]

Beautifully said! Looking forward to reading more of these books in this upcoming year and also the growth and knowledge that are sure to come with it!

[Carolyn]

Thank you for this selection. It looked like something I wanted to read, and felt I should, but knowing this group is about to take it on (thanks Emma!) makes me feel even more so.

Happy New Year to all - great way to start it.

[Yelena]

Going to order it now. It is scary how the issue of racism is gaining more and more space in the world currently. Sometimes I cannot believe what I’m hearing and reading, and people justifying it as ‘identitism’. There is no such thing! If you categorise people by their ethnically background, and discriminate them, you are racist.

[Sarah]

Happy New Year! I am so excited to read this book and engage in another great year of OSS!

[Fernanda]

I would love to read the book but sadly I can not find it in Spanish :/ and for me is easier to read on my mother language than English

[Mackenzie]

I've heard great things about that book! I'm excited to read it.

[Cris]

Thanks for another great pick. Can't wait to dive in.

[Jana]

💖💖💖 so well said

[Pierre]

Looking forward to reading the book.

[Sharmaine Erika]

Um, I know this is off topic, but I would like to ask some advice, if that’s okay with you.. What would you do if your US Visa has been denied three times already?