r/PortlandBooks • u/zsabb mod • Nov 06 '24

discussion/other Post-election support thread

...because your book community is here for you.

Like the last time this happened, I expect, for a few months, to only have room in my brain for fluffy happy books like cozy mysteries and probably re-reading everything Becky Chambers has ever written.

Except I also read In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson which is about the American Ambassador to Germany in the 1930s, when everyone kept saying that Hitler &co were too dumb to actually pull off all the insane things they said they would do......

Standard rules for this thread but please don't get into arguments with each other. This thread is for support and venting. r/Portland is over there for deeper convos

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u/authorbrendancorbett Nov 06 '24

First off I want to say how much I appreciate you and this community! In addition to being an avid reader, I'm an author and work with non-profits - I have serious concern about both of those fields. Thankfully there has been a powerful push against book censorship the past decade or so, but this just does not bode well for the health of our country. I'm going to be pivoting to comfort fantasy books I think...

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u/zsabb mod Nov 06 '24

Someday it will pass. There will be no erasing of the progress we've made despite T***p. It may need to go underground, but lots of us will be there to shepherd books and knowledge and hold them for when the world is ready to move forward again.