![]() Writing about it has been a struggle amidst the radical anti-science rhetoric and the virulent disinformation and cruel conspiracy theories-narrative itself has been usurped and weaponized. ![]() I won’t detail the shock, trauma, anger, and sorrow we endured the next 10 days, though I will tell that story eventually. On Halloween, my fully-vaccinated father called to say he’d tested positive for COVID-19 and the neighbors were taking him to the hospital. I intended to give this book to my father in November, when we were all gathering in Bloomington, Indiana, for a long-overdue visit. Baker was a nature writer who spent winters on the United Kingdom’s Essex coast, watching the peregrine falcons who made the flat marshes home for a few months. The third book is the 50th anniversary edition of The Peregrine by J.A. I’m two-thirds of the way through Dimaline’s novel, way behind my original schedule to discuss it for this excerpt of Go Figure. The second is Cherie Dimaline’s award-winning The Marrow Thieves, a riveting dystopian tale that disinters the real horror of the Indian residential schools in Canada. That’s such an intimate thing, reading a person’s favorite book. Steve loved the book, said it was probably his favorite, which is one of the reasons I haven’t even cracked the spine yet. Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, which was recommended to me by my husband’s long-time friend, Steve. There are three books that have been on my nightstand for two years now. “Go Figure” is a regular feature at Bloom that highlights and celebrates the interdependence and integration of math and literature, and that will “chip away at the cult of youth that surrounds mathematical and scientific thinking.” Read the inaugural feature here.
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