What You Are Looking For Is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama (Audible narrators -Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, Wilson Ting, Shiro Kawai)

In a ward in Tokyo there is a community building next to the elementary school. The two buildings used to be attached but now, to get to the community building you have to walk around back to the separate entrance. There are free adult classes, a farmers market some days and a large room that … Continue reading What You Are Looking For Is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama (Audible narrators -Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, Wilson Ting, Shiro Kawai) →

Caste – Isabel Wilkerson (Audible Audio Narrator – Robin Miles)

Isabel Wilkerson, through one story after another, woven together with historically sound reflections helps us reframe what the USA did. In order to make it work. We've always known our ancestors had to dehumanize the Black people they kidnapped and enslaved, worked to the bone and tortured. But what happened because of that dehumanization was … Continue reading Caste – Isabel Wilkerson (Audible Audio Narrator – Robin Miles) →

The Highgate Cemetery Murder – Irina Shapiro (Audio narrator – Imogen Church)

I greatly enjoyed what I now understand to be a first entry in at least a two part series featuring Gemma Tate, a thirty-something year old nurse who served in Crimea under Florence Nightingale and Sebastian Bell, a talented but opium using police detective. It is 1858. Victorian London. Women are decidedly expected to stay … Continue reading The Highgate Cemetery Murder – Irina Shapiro (Audio narrator – Imogen Church) →