{"id":1428,"date":"2021-12-14T22:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2022-06-23T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:42:52","slug":"bowdoin-reads-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/12\/14\/bowdoin-reads-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowdoin Reads 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens<\/a> began in 2008 as a way to celebrate readers, listeners, and watchers in our community.\u00a0 2021 presented a host of challenges, tragedies, and perseverance &#8230; and through it all we read, watched, and listened. We hope this recap of the most-viewed recommendations of the year will spark inspiration for you to fill your winter break with nourishing books, podcasts, movies, and more.<\/p>\n<h3>Top 10 Recommendations for 2021<\/h3>\n<p>10. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/09\/14\/willi-lempert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willi Lempert reccomends Cixin Liu&#8217;s <em>The Three-Body Problem <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/09\/14\/willi-lempert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1405 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Bowdoin-Reads-Lempert-e1631646563239-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Bowdoin-Reads-Lempert-e1631646563239-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Bowdoin-Reads-Lempert-e1631646563239.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2020\/07\/14\/thando-khumalo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thando Khumalo recommends Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s <em>Americanah<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1337 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/thando-khumalo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/10\/07\/kat-stefko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kat Stefko recommends Dr. Laurie Santos&#8217; <em>The Happiness Lab<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1423 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/br-kat-stefko-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Stefko\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/br-kat-stefko-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/br-kat-stefko-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/05\/11\/rachel-reinke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Reinke recommends Patricia Lockwood&#8217;s\u00a0<em>No One is Talking About This<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1399 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/RReinkeBR-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/RReinkeBR-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/RReinkeBR-web-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/RReinkeBR-web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/RReinkeBR-web-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/RReinkeBR-web-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2020\/09\/21\/sakura-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sakura Christmas recommends Amy Stanley&#8217;s <em>Stranger in Shogun&#8217;s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1355 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/sakura-christmas-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/sakura-christmas-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/sakura-christmas-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2020\/12\/14\/theo-woodward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theo Woodward recommends Bren\u00e9 Brown&#8217;s <em>Dare to Lead<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1369 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Theo-Woodward-Dare-to-Lead-web-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Theo-Woodward-Dare-to-Lead-web-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Theo-Woodward-Dare-to-Lead-web.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. [Entry removed]<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-1392\" class=\"post-1392 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-listeners\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">3. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/01\/14\/victoria-gravel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victoria Gravel recommends Latoya Ruby Frazier&#8217;s <em>The Notion of Family<\/em><\/a><\/header>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-1392\" class=\"post-1392 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-listeners\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1372 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Gravel-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/>\u00a0<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/02\/16\/jay-sosa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jay Sosa recommends David L. Herzberg&#8217;s <em>White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1381 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/sosa-web-e1613512058453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. Your recommendation<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1451\" src=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/My-project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Share your favorite book, movie, or album in the comments below &#8211; or join the project! All members of the Bowdoin community are invited to participate: submit your photo and recommendation to <a href=\"mailto:mvanders@bowdoin.edu\">Marieke Van Der Steenhoven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowdoin Reads|Watches|Listens began in 2008 as a way to celebrate readers, listeners, and watchers in our community.\u00a0 2021 presented a host of challenges, tragedies, and perseverance &#8230; and through it all we read, watched, and listened. We hope this recap of the most-viewed recommendations of the year will spark inspiration for you to fill your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2021\/12\/14\/bowdoin-reads-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bowdoin Reads 2021&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listeners","category-readers","category-watchers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}