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A review by booksgurrsandpurrs
This Is the Fire by Don Lemon
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Gravity is a thing. Telling someone to ignore, transcend, or defy the dynamics of gravity does not make gravity not a thing. pg 140
We are the inferno in which Baldwin placed his faith. This is the fire. Let the last next time be now. pg 196.
I loved all the different layers to the structure of Don Lemon's book. Starting off with a letter to his nephews, (a la The Fire Next Time), and expanding into America's history, America's judicial system, the cinematic arts, myths and a ponderance of the future, Lemon hones in his journalistic skills to craft an urgent message to all readers.
I have a tiny itsy bitsy criticism. The prose is a bit dry and I would attribute that to Don Lemon's strong journalistic background, which is also worth praising in the same breath. I have the same issue with Joan Didion as her strong journalistic skills sometimes makes her seem disconnected to the material, which makes it a bit hard for me to sink into the world the authors' are dropping me into. By the time I read chapter 3 I was locked into Don Lemon's voice.
We are the inferno in which Baldwin placed his faith. This is the fire. Let the last next time be now. pg 196.
I loved all the different layers to the structure of Don Lemon's book. Starting off with a letter to his nephews, (a la The Fire Next Time), and expanding into America's history, America's judicial system, the cinematic arts, myths and a ponderance of the future, Lemon hones in his journalistic skills to craft an urgent message to all readers.
I have a tiny itsy bitsy criticism. The prose is a bit dry and I would attribute that to Don Lemon's strong journalistic background, which is also worth praising in the same breath. I have the same issue with Joan Didion as her strong journalistic skills sometimes makes her seem disconnected to the material, which makes it a bit hard for me to sink into the world the authors' are dropping me into. By the time I read chapter 3 I was locked into Don Lemon's voice.