Part 1: My picks for #sundayread for December 23, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Nora, the Loneliest Polar Bear
  By Kale Williams @sfkale
• I listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” twice because it was so powerful and moving.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2mWgf2G
• How Baby Boomers Broke America
  By @StevenBrill
• Fake news is an existential crisis for social media
  By Natasha Lomas @riptari
• You’re mothering wrong.
  By Kim Brooks @KA_Brooks
• What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
  By Gary Greenberg @bookofwoe
• Many Chinas, Many Tables: Stories of Bay Area Chinese cuisines
  From the San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle
• The end of work as we know it
  By James Livingston @annihilista
• I rarely say this: This book changed my life. “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by @SusanCain is so spot on, I’m buying copies for all my friends.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2HDEsU2
• Police shoot more than twice as many Americans as previously thought
  From @ViceNews
• Diary of a Do-Gooder: The anonymous tasks of everyday activism
  By @SaraEckel
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
  By @Jean_Twenge
• The Year the Networks Finally Embraced Diversity
  By @KateAurthur
• Crossville, an immigrant oasis flourishing in red state Alabama
  By Andrew @DesiderioDC

All my #sundayread picks for 2018. And look for Part 2 on Dec. 30.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Little shop of ho ho’s

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 23 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me