Books to Read This Summer
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3 Books to read this summer

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3 Books to read this summer

This summer if you're not doing anything productive you might as well read!

1. That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

That Kind of Mother shines a light on class and race struggles as we see a white woman adopt her former nanny's black son. It is a stirring coming of age book for mothers (I don't know, do mothers come of age?) that all parents can resonate with as parental love is the soul of this book. This book is his second novel where he highlights feminity and makes women and their relationships the sole focus. His writing is so convincing, that in most interviews he's asked whether he is actually a woman.

2. From The Corner of The Oval: A Memoir by Beck Dorey-Stein

Dorey-Stein, a former White House stenographer for President Obama, takes us on both a nostalgic trip as we reminisce of the good times where we have an actual President while actually giving us an inside to what it was like to work for the White House during this time. We read about her celebrating Christmas with the Obamas to throwing up in South Africa. Yet Dorey-Stein flips the White House memoir cliches on itself and really brings in her own life in this memoir. We are sucked into a Sam-Jason-Beck triangle and many, many bottles of alcohol that leaves us constantly rooting for Dorey-Stein.

3. all about love by Bell Hooks

Hooks in allabout love believes that love is not something that merely happens the way we are so used to it being described. It is not an abstract idea that encompasses us the minute we meet the "right person." Instead, she argues love is a choice we make every day and in order to have healthy relationships we must be able to make that distinction. Hooks explores our culture's obsession and distortion of love in the new feminist novel

Enjoy!

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