With the adjustments made to adapt to the new normal, your schedule might be tight by trying to juggle the classes or work and household chores. It cannot be denied that there really is a struggle in keeping the boundaries between work or student life and personal matters. The balance may seem to be broken, since there is no teacher or boss to monitor you physically.
To help you relax and get more inspiration, we have prepared the best titles for you to enjoy reading during the remaining days of autumn. These books will surely refresh your mind from the stressful adjustments caused by the pandemic.
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
This book is published in 1943 by the Oxford University Press, and now available in both hardcover and paperback. It is the book that followed the author’s A Preface to Paradise Lost. Moreover, this has a subtitle which is reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools that serves as the introduction to a justification of objective value and natural law. It also contains a caution about the punishments of breaking away or contradicting the subject mentioned. The Abolition of Man supports science as something worth taking, but criticizes the use of it to undermine values, the importance of science itself that is within them, or to describe it to eliminate certain values. It was originally introduced at King’s College, Newcastle as a set of three evening lectures, Riddell Memorial Lectures, on February 1943.
On Freedom and Revolt: A Comparative Investigation by Carl E. Moyler
On May 2015, the illustrated edition of On Freedom and Revolt by Moyler, Carl E.was published by Xulon Press. It is a book that centers on a captivating differentiation of two remarkable winners of the Novel Prize, which are Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Camus. The comparison tackles several huge issues, such as racism, poverty, war, unjustness, ill treatment, and tyranny. The author exposes that Albert Camus and Martin Luther King Jr. are not ready and eager to face the ravaging issues and take no action. Moyler also discovered a mutuality of the two in introducing these concerns despite their cultural and racial background dissimilarities.
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
This 2019 Pulitzer Prize and 2018 National Book Award winner is authored by Jeffrey C. Stewart. It is a nonfiction book that contains the life story of Alain Locke. It evaluates the life of the African-American activist and scholar who is perceived by people as the Harlem Renaissance’s father, because he became the trainer or teacher of several African-American intellectuals and writers. The title of the book is based on a 1925 collection essays, fiction, and poetry by Alain Locke. The book examines not just the subject but also the remarkable things that he created on their community from different angles. It also shares the private life of Locke. Moreover, this book has also won the Organization of American Historians’ 2019 James A. Rawley Prize.
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Bold Type Books published the reprint edition of Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi. It is the winner of the National Book Award because of how it tackles the history of the method of creation, extension, and firmness of racist thoughts in the society of America. Most people in the country assert that they are already living in a society that has overcome racism; however, the racist ideas are, in fact, still alive and have become more cunning than they were. Hence, the award-winning historian author insists that these thoughts have a lengthy and remaining past wherein almost each great American intellectual is an accomplice. Kendi reveals that racist thoughts didn’t emerge from resentment or ignorance. Instead, they were made to explain and defend deep-seated discriminatory rules and the country’s racial injustice. In focusing the spotlight on this issue, this book provides the readers with the necessary means to uncover the racist thinking that exists until now. During the process, Kendi is supplying the readers with enough reasons to become hopeful.
Trina’s Travel 