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Darklunarose
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Made it to a cafe with hubby for “us” time

BooksandCoffee4Me Helpful book! I loved using writing notebooks with my students! 😃💛💛 2w
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peanutnine
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#MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
Three great books finished in May

julieclair Well done!!! 👏 1w
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BkClubCare
Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover
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A friend recovering from surgery asked me to pick up some audiobooks from the library - my choice! I have read Educated and the Doerr (no idea if she has) - does anyone want to chime in support for the other two? I have Born a Crime on hold - which is my favorite audio of all time that I recommend. Photo to help me remember! (Otherwise, slim pickings.

ChaoticMissAdventures I adore Ashley C Ford. Her memoir is a bit tough topic wise but really important stuff and her writing is gorgeous. I have heard she is working on a spin off documentary on it from Netflix with other women who grew up similarly (father in prison, mom not always good, growing up Black in America) 2w
BkClubCare @ChaoticMissAdventures - Thank you 😊 I believe I followed her way back when I was on Twitter. So her name caught my eye. Otherwise, the library has a bunch of pop lit of the kind that I steer clear. 2w
ErikasMindfulShelf I loved Of Women and Salt 2w
BkClubCare @ErikasMindfulShelf - thank you ! ☺️ 2w
Christine Another vote in favor of Ashley C. Ford‘s book (and of anything else she does ever)! 2w
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TuesdayReviews
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“I don‘t want you to be safe ideologically. I don‘t want you to be safe emotionally. I want you to be strong. That‘s different. I‘m not going to pave the jungle for you. Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity. I‘m not going to take all the weights out of the gym; that‘s the whole point of the gym. This is the gym.” - Van Jones

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BeeMagical
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Pickpick

Really enjoyed this book about homeschooling💚

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lil1inblue
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TheBookHippie Magic ♥️ 4w
TheSpineView So true 👍 💙📖 4w
JenlovesJT47 Love this!! 💛🐝🖤🤓📚 4w
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dabbe That last line: 🎯🩵🎯 Reading is accessible for everyone and allows all of us to be transported. 💛🐝🖤 4w
AnnCrystal 🤩 Perfection! Magic of books captured in seventeen syllables 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🪄📚🐝💝. 3w
lil1inblue @TheBookHippie My favorite kind of magic. 😍 3w
lil1inblue @TheSpineView 😍💫 💖 💫 3w
lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 Thanks! 😍 3w
lil1inblue @dabbe Precisely! 😍 💛 🐝 💛 3w
lil1inblue @AnnCrystal Thank you! 😍 💛 🐝 💛 3w
bellabella So true! 3w
DebinHawaii Love it! 📚🖤🐝💛 3w
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BC_Dittemore
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Pickpick

A seminal & important work. So important I had to check it out from the library to read & listen to it simultaneously after having already listened to it once. I‘ve gone & purchased a hard copy too.

I‘m not looking for a gold star; I‘m looking to mine all the gold I can from Freire because American‘s are under exigent circumstances.

This is not a test! Education is under attack. The oppressive regime is here. Read. Educate yourself. Prepare.

ncsufoxes I‘ve had this one sitting on my shelf for a year or two now (probably longer). One I need to prioritize but right now it feels like there‘s too many books to prioritize 1mo
BC_Dittemore @ncsufoxes it truly does feel like there are too many to prioritize. I sorta let instinct guide me. & right now my instinct is telling me to utilize my spare time in different ways. I still have audiobooks though & still work too many hours. Perfect combination! 😅 1mo
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KCofKaysville
How We Learn | Benedict Carey
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Really interesting book about learning techniques that seem counterintuitive like mixing up topics and taking a lot of breaks. I found out some of these when I read Make It Stick, a while back. Worthwhile!

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IriDas
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Going to take a break this summer. I know it means I‘ll have to double up on work in the fall, but I feel like if I don‘t do it this way, I‘ll just quit altogether.

So, lots of reading, lots of writing, lots of planting, lots of crochet and cross-stitch. And, maybe, I‘ll finally decide on a sewing machine and finally learn how to make Kirby pjs for my son who has outgrown children‘s clothing.

#summerplans
#gradschool

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Hooked_on_books
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I did a lot of nodding and “yep”ing as I listened to this one, about how a subset of American society has turned against the knowledge of experts (and no doubt it‘s happening elsewhere, too). He doesn‘t offer solutions, which is of course frustrating, but then the first step to problem solving is acknowledging the problem. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @Riveted_Reader_Melissa !

ChaoticMissAdventures My goodness it is so frustrating. Not only are they turning against experts many are turning against knowledge period. It is so bizarre. 1mo
Hooked_on_books @ChaoticMissAdventures It really is bizarre. And they revel in doing it! I really don‘t know what the answer is, but it‘s really bad for us as a society. 1mo
Prairiegirl_reading And “do your own research” from RFK while cutting actual research is devastating. 1mo
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Christine Ooh, we‘re covering this topic in the sociology of science class I‘m teaching right now. I‘d better check this one out! 1mo
Hooked_on_books @Prairiegirl_reading Not only that, but he shows up in here as an example of a dangerous person for spreading misinformation. And here we now have him as our HHS secretary, which shows how much further we‘ve slid down this dangerous path. 1mo
Hooked_on_books @Christine I would totally take that class! 1mo
squirrelbrain Stacked 1mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa You‘re welcome…. I‘m glad it still held up. We seem to be sliding down this slippery slope so fast, I sometimes wonder when I recommend books if they will hold up, even when they are just a few years old. I remember back when I read this thinking how much the climate change debate had been taken over by the same forces of Big Tobacco back in the fight of cigarettes…Big Oil now. But now we are into Big Coal and so many of those issues have ⤵️ 1mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ been co-opted into the political cultural issues instead of science with debating science teams paid by the corporation. And now we have progressed into cutting funding of the basic science itself, and deleting reports we do not like (culturally) which gives the misinformation voices even more space. 1mo
Hooked_on_books @Riveted_Reader_Melissa You sum it up really well. And the pervading force is money. Pay people to say what your interests want rather than try to find the best way, is what these folks do. It‘s not a good thing at all. 1mo
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