I do too much sometimes. That's not a mysterious fact about me. Many of you have thought something to that effect about me anyway. I just hate when I do too much and I get harmed. This time my psyche has taken a hit, but these particular blows stop here.
Nothing about the social climate of the US these days is shocking. The timeline maybe off. I was expecting the new KKK and Neo Nazis to really act a fool since President Bill Clinton was in office. That's when I took notice to skin heads use hate speech in public. And everyday 45 is in office, nothing seems to be weird anymore. People watched a giraffe give birth as oppose to watch him literally try to run this country like one of his businesses.
What is shocking is that I thought I was going to read Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird and stay emotionally healthy. I can't watch slavery or civil right "entertainment" unless I know I won't be leaving the house for a few days. Let's just say, I become very enraged & take my attitude out on those that look like whoever the oppressor was in the show or movie. But I tried to read To Kill a Mockingbird, anyway, My mind was saying stop. I could feel me get emotional. So, I stopped & decided to revamp my Reading Challenge for 2017.
Reading Challenge 2017 was Banned Books in Dallas ISD When I Was In School. Now, it's Classics I Haven't Read I've read Dear God, It Me Margreat & Chocolate Wars. You can read my reviews
HERE &
HERE. I am still going to read Tom Sawyer, but I am adding
- The Great Gatsby
- The Grapes of Wrath.
I think those works are read in the 9th grade of high school. Well, like I said in a previous post, my English/History teacher only taught class for 15 minutes. If wasn't short stories, poetry, and grammary lessons, I didn't learn about it then.
I can wave the white flag at two novels. I couldn't do it to my whole challenge. I finally completed one last year. I must complete one again the next year. I can & I will do it.
As Always Talking to You in Adult Terms
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