Reading Log: October 2021

 The books that I finished reading in October 2021:

October 2021 Books: photo by Cliff Hutson

"The Keeper of the Keys," Earl Derr Biggers

"Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation," Michael Pollan

"Diet for a Small Planet: 50th Anniversary Edition," Frances Moore Lappé 

"Every Tool's a Hammer," Adam Savage

"Weapons of Math Destruction," Cathy O'Neil

"It's a Wonderful Woof," Spencer Quinn

"On Juneteenth," Annette Gordon-Reed

National Author’s Day

November 1, 2021, is National Author's Day.

"The Author is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes and chooses: ... The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning."

- Michel Foucault

Día de los Muertos

Día de los Muertos: photo by Cliff Hutson

Today is also Día de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead.