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Finished Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane GayMy Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and JusticeMy 5-star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms - tough read.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs. I gave it five stars because I love Mo Rocca and he narrated it. Who could ask for anything more!
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I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My MinivanMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Change
by Kirsten MillerMy Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Things We Do in the Dark
by Jennifer HillierMy Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial EquityMy thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Yellowface. This time I listened to it while last year I read it. Listening may have enhanced the book.
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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters. 4-stars.My thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Dancing on Broken Glass which I gave 5-stars. If you read it, make sure you have a full box of tissues.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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So, in the last 3 days, I've finished
Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy. I had read this in ARC form, but I was eager to hear Velshi narrate it himself. Then I finished
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery which makes me want to cry that one family has had so much cancer and that we have such a long way to go in fighting that disease.And finally,
Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America about the live, the love, the assassination, and after of the Civil Rights activist. I gave 4 stars to all three.
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What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust. I always love Flavia!My thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi ThorpeMy Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis which gives the history of the "bunker" in the White House.The second was
Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem. I'd recommend this for everyone!
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Since Saturday I have finished
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. This is a slim follow up to 84, Charing Cross Road one of my all time favorites. I gave it 5-stars.I finished listening to 3 books. First was
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity. I think any empathic individual (and probably more importantly non-empaths) should read this book. Another 5-stars. Next was
Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy 4 stars. Enlightening. Lastly a quick listen with
True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between 3.5 stars.
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (meaning it didn't really take me 3 months to read it. I just lapped it up. My thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't. It was an "eh!" book for me although I picked up some interesting factoids.
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books. I read it because I saw that a librarian friend had given it 5-stars. I only gave it 3, but I do recognize that I might have gotten more out of it if I had read it. I admit that I had trouble keeping the characters straight.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders which is about Moscow, Idaho and the murders of 4 students and the suspect. It seems unusual to have a book before there's been a trial.The second book was
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion which was more encompassing than I expected. It wasn't just about the women, but also the stores that I fondly recall which are no longer in business. I was shocked when DJT (the orange stain) made appearance because of what he did to a building that housed one of those stores for years. He promised parts (gargoyles) to an art museum then renigged - destroyed. Seems par for his course. (I had read that part of the story many, many years ago in another book The Making of Donald Trump.
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Books on the Nightstand
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When the Night Comes Falling: The Definitive True Crime Investigation into the Idaho Student Murders (other topics)When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion (other topics)
The Making of Donald Trump (other topics)
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (other topics)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (other topics)
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Patricia Engel (other topics)Ariel Lawhon (other topics)
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Looking forward to finish the intense nonfiction books for something much lighter probably later today. (The library lottery!)