Books High and Low

Friday, January 29, 2021

Algorithms of oppression, by Safiya Umoja Noble

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  Safiya Noble was a speaker at the 2020 Association of Research Libraries fall forum, and attendees received a copy of her book prior to th...
Monday, January 25, 2021

You can't spell Truth without Ruth, [compiled by] Mary Zaia

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  This is a fun collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotes. My favorite: "Waste no time on anger, regret, or resentment; just get the job...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Norman Rockwell: 332 magazine covers, by Christopher Finch

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  I bought this small book (4.3 x 4.7 inch) at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is introduced with an essay by C...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Optiks, by Zeke Berman

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  This is an interesting collection of black and white photography by an artist who begins by creating a 3-D sculpture and then photographin...

Photographs, by Liliane De Cock

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  This is a lovely collection of black and white photographs, with a foreword by Ansel Adams. Ms. De Cock was Adams' assistant for many ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Ship fever, by Andrea Barrett

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  I'm not normally a fan of short stories, but I was bowled over by this collection; it's no wonder that it won the National Book Aw...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

This is the American Earth, by Ansel Adams, Nancy Newhall

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  This oversized book is a collection of photographs and accompanying text by Ansel Adams and a few dozen other photographers. Many of Adams...

The Print, by Ansel Adams

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  This is the third book in The Ansel Adams Photography Series , and the only one that the UAlbany Libraries own. It includes many prints th...
Monday, January 11, 2021

She said, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

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  This is a fascinating account of the investigation that led to Harvey Weinstein's outing as a sexual predator. Mike gave me this book ...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

How to be champion: my autobiography, by Sarah Millican

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  I've been watching bits of Sarah Millican's comedy routines online for a while now (thanks, Facebook, for introducing us!), and ha...

How we fight for our lives: a memoir, by Saeed Jones

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  This is a touching, heartfelt, yet brief memoir by poet Saeed Jones, who shares his experiences growing up gay and black in rural Texas, a...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Guillaume de Machaut, by Siegmund Levarie

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  This brief volume (114 pages) is part of the Great Religious Composers series, and much of the book is a discussion of De Machaut's M...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Guillaume de Machaut, by Gilbert Reaney

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  I've become interested in the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machaut, born in 1300. He's more well-known for his secular music, ...

There there, by Tommy Orange

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  I loved this book about twelve Native Americans who are coming together in Oakland, CA, for a powwow. In chapters that rotate between the ...

An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore

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I'm a little late to the party on this collection of climate change books and films, but better late than never! The film shows Al Gore ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Fantasyland, by Kurt Andersen

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  This is a fascinating and provocative look at Americans' penchant for believing the fantastical over the realistic, starting with the ...
Monday, December 7, 2020

The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present, by Beaumont Newhall

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  This is a history of photography from 1839 through 1949, when it was published. Containing almost exclusively black and white illustration...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Brassai

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  Brassa ï was one of the most influential French photographers of the 20th century. This book collects many of his most famous photos, gr...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Perpetual Mirage: Photographic Narratives of the Desert West

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This is a collection of essays and accompanying photographs that pulls together many of the earliest pictures taken in the American Southwes...

Swimming in the Dark, by Tomasz Jedrowski

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  I really enjoyed this short novel (191 pages) set in 1980s Poland. It tells the story of two young men who meet and fall in love the summe...

Photographs of the Southwest, by Ansel Adams

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  This book contains a collection of 109 photographs by Ansel Adams from the 1920s through the 1960s. They include landscapes, portraits, st...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Ansel Adams: Classic Images

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  This is a nice collection of 75 of Ansel Adams' most well-known photographs. It's introduced by John Szarkowski, a photographer hi...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo, by Christy Lefteri

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This is a powerful novel about a refugee couple from Aleppo whose son died in a bombing. Nuri and his wife Afra, who was blinded in the bomb...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Deacon King Kong, by James McBride

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  I loved this novel by James McBride. It's set in a Brooklyn housing project in the 1960s, when heroin is beginning to be widely availa...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Rage, by Bob Woodward

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  To a certain extent, this book is similar to Woodward's last book, Fear, in that it simply reinforces everything you know about Trump ...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Snowpiercer, directed by Bong Joon-Ho

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  I really liked this 2013 film based on a graphic novel. The film was directed by Bong Joon-Ho, who also directed Parasite. The premise is ...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue

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  I have mixed feelings about this first novel by Cameroonian author Imbolo Mbue. It started strong, with chapters alternating between Neni...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Ansel Adams

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  Looking for a diversion from non-stop news watching, I borrowed this video from my library. I didn't know very much about Ansel Adams,...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

So You Want to Talk about Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

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  So You Want to Talk about Race was selected by my library's climate committee, which has held a number of discussions over Zoom about ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Books: a memoir, by Larry McMurtry

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  I am fond of reading accounts of others' reading habits and interests, so I was happy to find this book on my most recent foray to the...
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