Reviews and Comments

I've been meaning to read for years,and finally ordered a copy for my staycation this week. It is a great book, covering a massive demographic shift, "the Great Migration" of African-Americans from the South to the North and West, through the frame of three specific oral histories of three different people who made the move. I had to put it down at times because I was reading too fast.

Looking forward to Isabel Wilkerson's upcoming boo.

Some interesting parts, but overall far too over-the-top about barefoot running, and very sensational in its depiction of these people.

Hard to say if I've finished this book. I've read through it, but have just finished my 2nd project of the 12 (and I'm not going to do all of them). It was appealing to me as the projects were simple (good for a beginner) and meant for outdoors (great since I have a gardening wife, and also not a lot of space for new indoor furniture).

The first two projects were pretty straightforward, and they have helped me get acquainted with basic power tools at my tool library/shop space. This may change -- some of the later projects make pretty big leaps between steps, which hopefully won't be a problem by the time I have experience to tackle them. There are typos, which have slowed me down a bit, but nothing catastrophic (yet).

This is more of an overview of self help business books throughout the last century, with a few personal anecdotes (and a chapter on 2005 era Trump that was hard to get through in 2019). Some good passages but overall not much here.

Almost nothing about where he went, and most of the people he meets are other backpackers. Pretty tedious.