- How to Be a Person in the World  by Heather Havrilesky 
 
   
            jan 11 2019 ∞  jan 11 2019 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
              dec 13 2017 ∞  mar 29 2018 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - tahini 
 
    - turmeric 
 
    - pomegranate molasses 
 
    - spinach 
 
    - garlic 
 
    - onion 
 
    - cilantro 
 
    - sweet potato 
 
    - coconut milk 
 
    - cardamom 
 
    - apple cider vinegar 
 
    - dijon mustard 
 
    - poblano 
 
    - chickpeas 
 
    - mayo 
 
    - avocado 
 
    - pistachio 
 
    - rosewater 
 
    - cumin 
 
    - rice! 
 
    - couscous 
 
   
              nov 5 2017 ∞  nov 5 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - ✔ chocolate chip rosemary cookies 
 
    - caesar dressing 
 
    - ✔ red curry soup 
 
    - chana masala 
 
    - mint fried rice 
 
    - pad thai 
 
    - ✔ molokhia 
 
   
            dec 5 2016 ∞  mar 29 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - amazonite
      
        - healing stone 
 
        - heart & throat chakras 
 
        - emotional: recovery, balance, self-love, self-respect, communication 
 
        - physical: regeneration, reproductive health, teeth, infections, skin 
 
       
  
    - amethyst
      
        - healing & comfort stone 
 
        - crown & third eye chakras 
 
        - emotional: creativity, calm, intellect, love, wisdom 
 
        - physical: oxygenation, immune system, bruises, circulation 
 
       
  
    - angelite
      
        - comfort stone 
 
        - third eye & crown chakras 
 
        - emotional: calm, soothing, acceptance, co... 
 
       
  
   
              aug 17 2016 ∞  apr 7 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
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    - People's History of Chicago  by Kevin Coval 
 
    - Known and Strange Things  by Teju Cole 
 
    - Naked  by David Sedaris 
 
    - The Splendid Things We Planned  by Blake Bailey 
 
    - I'll Tell You in Person  by Chloe Caldwell 
 
    - The Prince & Other Writings  by Niccoló Machiavell* 
 
    - Wave  by Sonali Deraniyagala 
 
    - Ghachar Ghochar  by Vivek Shahnbhag 
 
    - Zadie Smith: Critical Essays  ed. Tracey L. Walters 
 
    - The Irish Famine  by Peter Gray* 
 
    - Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views on the Conquest of Mexico  ed. by Stuart B. Schwartz* 
 
    - Interpreter of Maladies  by Jhumpa Lahiri 
 
    - This Is How You Lose Her  by Junot Diaz 
 
    - The Namesake  by Jhumpa Lahiri 
 
    - The Bell Jar  by Sylvia Plath 
 
    - The Half That Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism  by Edward E. Baptist 
 
    - Words Are My Matter  by Ursula K. LeGuin 
 
    - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano * 
 
   
              jan 3 2018 ∞  jan 11 2019 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - annotated bibliography (due Friday 8) 
 
    - Batov essay (due Friday 9) 
 
    - Angela Davis oral report (due Wednesday 10) 
 
    - Levi essay (due Friday 10) 
 
    - purity movement essay (due Friday 10) 
 
    - Mississippi Delta essay (due Monday 11) 
 
    - Singapore Mutiny essay (due Wednesday 11) 
 
    - return library books 
 
    - pickup Rowlatt report 
 
    - check in on document collection 
 
   
            nov 3 2018 ∞  nov 3 2018 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian  by Sherman Alexie 
 
    - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa  by Walter Rodney 
 
    - The Autograph Man  by Zadie Smith 
 
    - Autobiography of Malcolm X  told to Alex Haley 
 
    - Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab  by Steve Inskeep 
 
    - The Glass Castle  by Jeannette Walls 
 
    - Flowers for Algernon  by Daniel Keyes 
 
    - Gone Girl  by Gillian Flynn 
 
    - Oryx and Crake  by Margaret Atwood 
 
    - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  by Rebecca Skloot 
 
    - White Teeth  by Zadie Smith 
 
    - Indian Tales of the Raj  by Zareer Masani 
 
    - The White Tiger  by Aravind Adiga 
 
    - Slaughterhouse-Five  by Kurt Vonnegut 
 
    - Known and Strange Things  by Teju Cole 
 
    - Homegoing  by Yaa Gyasi 
 
    - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution  by Eric Foner 
 
   
              jan 2 2017 ∞  jan 1 2018 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - BoJack Horseman 
 
    - Chopped 
 
    - The End of the F***ing World 
 
   
            jan 21 2018 ∞  jan 21 2018 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - sexualization of female suicidality 
 
    - naguib mahfouz and the early arabic novel 
 
    - feminist causes as justifcation for french/british occupation of north africa 
 
    - the same thing but with india 
 
    - the same thing but with afghanistan 
 
    - abdullah öcalan, the pkk, and the shift to democratic confederalism 
 
    - the shift in public perception from troublemaker to saint 
 
    - abolitionist newspapers and public pressure 
 
   
            sep 27 2017 ∞  sep 27 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Alice 
 
    - Amal 
 
    - Amelia 
 
    - Anya 
 
    - Aziza 
 
    - Camille 
 
    - Caro 
 
    - Cleo 
 
    - Dahlia 
 
    - Gaia 
 
    - Ivy 
 
    - Leyla 
 
    - Lily 
 
    - Luna 
 
    - Lydia 
 
    - Margo 
 
    - Maya 
 
    - Mila 
 
    - Nadia 
 
    - Nazanin 
 
    - Noor 
 
   
              aug 31 2016 ∞  jan 16 2019 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
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    - The Pilgrim's Progress  by John Bunyan 
 
    - Robinson Crusoe  by Daniel Defoe 
 
    - Gulliver's Travels  by Jonathan Swift 
 
    - Clarissa  by Samuel Richardson 
 
    - Tom Jones  by Henry Fielding 
 
    - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman  by Laurence Sterne 
 
    - Emma  by Jane Austen 
 
    - ✔ Frankenstein  by Mary Shelley 
 
    - Nightmare Abbey  by Thomas Love Peacock 
 
    - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket  by Edgar Allan Poe 
 
    - Sybil  by Benjamin Disraeli 
 
    - Jane Eyre  by Charlotte Brontë 
 
    - Wuthering Heights  by Emily Brontë 
 
    - Vanity Fair  by William Thackeray 
 
    - David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens 
 
    - ✔ The Scarlet Letter  by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
 
    - Moby-Dick  by Herman Melville 
 
   
              oct 14 2017 ∞  oct 15 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - ORD - Chicago 
 
    - LAX - Los Angeles 
 
    - RNO - Reno/Tahoe 
 
    - FCO - Rome 
 
    - FRA - Frankfurt 
 
    - APF - Naples 
 
    - MDW - Chicago 
 
    - RFD - Rockford 
 
    - DEN - Denver 
 
    - MSP - Minneapolis 
 
    - MCO - Orlando 
 
    - DCA - Washington DC 
 
    - DEN - Denver 
 
   
            nov 18 2016 ∞  dec 25 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Archie 
 
    - Asher 
 
    - Beckett 
 
    - Dashiell 
 
    - Declan 
 
    - Elijah 
 
    - Elliot 
 
    - Ezra 
 
    - Gavin 
 
    - Holden 
 
    - Isaiah 
 
    - Jasper 
 
    - Kai 
 
    - Leo 
 
    - Malachi 
 
    - Max 
 
    - Omar 
 
    - Palmer 
 
    - Rami 
 
    - Ramzi 
 
    - Reed 
 
   
              aug 31 2016 ∞  may 17 2017 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
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