I’m aware there are these popular apps for tracking what you want to read and what you have read. Goodreads, for sure. Somewhere I read about another one that was “better," but I don’t remember by what criteria. I downloaded Goodreads once. I opened it once, maybe twice. I then decided that I didn’t want another app and I went back to tracking what I read in a Word doc. I love it. Here’s my problem: I don’t do a good job tracking my half-reads for school.
I typically share my DNFs. But I don’t ever track the three chapters of that book and the five chapters of that one that are assigned for class. It won’t matter in a few months, but it does this month because I read the chapters of Martin & Malcolm & America that were about Malcolm X.1
Outside of Jasmine Holmes briefly talking about him, I didn’t know much at all about Malcolm X.2 If I’m going to read some introductory work about him, James Cones is who I want to write it. Cone started with a brief bio of Malcolm X’s childhood and his story is a great example of how context matters. Often he is pitted against MLK Jr, which doesn’t seem like the best approach, but much of their disagreements are explained by their stories. I wish we had gotten the chance to see if they could have worked together.
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