BYL Reading Challenge discussion

It's never too late to learn something new! This could be a book that teaches you a new skill, or a book on a period of history you've never studied. Or maybe it's a book about a topic in science you've never explored or a biography about a person you've never heard of before! Go on a learning adventure!

The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
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The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon

If you thought you knew about the war on drugs from what you've learned so far in life (at least in USA), this book will tell you something very different! Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari. Highly recommended!

Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West I read this book for a book club discussion. It was not a subject that had interested me - the hospitality industry in the United States from ~1880s ~1960s - but I was glad to have read it. I had never heard of Fred Harvey but, based on what I learned from this book, a lot of the business's practices and attitudes were influential here in my home state of New Mexico.