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This arrived in the mail the other day! Thank you so much @coffees and @rsteve388 and thank you for all your hard work hosting #nonfictionnovember !

One of my favorites of the year! Clint Smith is a poet, and you can see that in his writing in this book, in which he visits historic sites, including a plantation, a notorious prison, and a confederate cemetery, to see how the story of slavery is told. Very well done, with a mix of his own experience with the public history of these sites. Five stars #NonfictionNovember

This memoir as my introduction to Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet laureate. I really enjoyed how she wove poetry into this story of her early life. She has a second memoir that I‘m definitely reading. #nonfictionnovember

A kissing bug sounds like something that would be cute, but is in fact a bug that can cause serious illness. This book covers the author‘s aunt‘s illness from this bug and the research (and lack of understanding) of this bug. She weaves her personal story with the science. It‘s really good! #NonfictionNovember

#NFN Don't forget to get your points in for the last week! I'll be sending emails.out tomorrow tonight after work.
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Getting in a little nonfiction before the end of #NonfictionNovember. Reading COVID stories from last year & realizing not much has changed. We know so little about this virus & we don't even know if we're using the best methods to track & fight it. Also a NYC ER & how the doctors grapple with life & death decisions. When you can't treat everyone how do you decide who to treat? I don't think they are all COVID stories though, thank goodness! 😊

I had a great #NonfictionNovember with eight books finished, and I‘m in the midst of a reread of The Warmth of Other Suns with a #BuddyRead here on Litsy. I need to do reviews of all of these but they were all worth reading. The tagged book is one of my top books of 2021.

Wake and Seek You are graphic memoirs/nonfiction and I‘m really beginning to enjoy nonfiction in that format.

Good reading month. Got in 9 books for #nonfictionNovember and am slowly working down my mountain of #ARC s

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My goal for #NonfictionNovember was to read at least 4 nf books. I read 5, If I was to count Epileptic by David B which I read on Halloween it would be 6. The standouts were Night, Voices From Chernobyl, Imagine Wanting Only This. These are 3 new favorites that I will be thinking about, & recommending, for years to come. Now on to #CloakAndDaggerChristmas

Let me be clear: Mallory O'Meara's work is important in reclaiming Milicent Patrick as a Hollywood trailblazer. Her childhood on the Hearst Castle was so outlandish it had me annoying people with Hearst trivia. One of my favorite sections of the book is her career at Disney. Yet, I found O'Meara's conversational style to be a bit of a disservice to her subject. I appreciated the humorous footnotes (some of them, but others were tiring👇