FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS (3)
By Malcolm Udogwu New York - The year 2022 has not changed much since the Covid-19 epidemic. Books are a great source to calm the isolation caused by three years of intense medical episodes and pandemics. My choice of books evolved from fiction to none fiction, and coffee table books, including do-it-yourself manuscripts as in woodwork projects. There’s a growing demand in photo and coloring books, especially among children narratives. The Black life Matter movement here in the United States left a trail of directives as young black and white, Latino, Asian Americans joined the crusade to rid systemic racism in America. Those protest signboards, “we shall overcome,” make great collection if and when they’re bonded in books. The poetry in some of those signs is sobering. They look like postcards sent from a distant journey. You love them or you hate them. Coffee table books are becoming modern-day family photo albums. Independent filmmakers and documentary photographers, and public