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Oh god is this only my second #nonfiction #book this year?!?! 😂 😭 It was a book on the shorter side and I did enjoy it altho ~80% in I did get a bit lost in some details. I don't really know much about the topic but I really liked some of the theories (is that what it's called, lol) he came up with based on the findings he talks about. I'd like to read more on the subject, especially relating to the last topic: dogs and wolves and humans

I finally finished #Byzantium, my first #nonfiction #read of the year?! Wow. It was alright. I felt like I learned quite a bit but I wasn't a fan of the narrator (I don't generally like British accents for narrators, NGL, it's a bit hard to understand sometimes, doesn't flow as smoothly as I'd like). After a while I did get bogged down by names and dates but I would read again, maybe a physical copy tho. 4/5.

This was fascinating. I wonder how much has changed in the intervening 7 years. It's difficult to imagine actually being able to pull off a successful fake death.

Fun to read about though.

#nonfiction

This book includes an introduction and a series of interviews with authors about their books that have been challenged or banned. He discusses with the authors their writing, the reasons books were challenged, and their reactions.

#AudiobookSync #audiobook #nonfiction

I don‘t really have anything new to say about this short read (just under 2 hours on audio) that shares the author‘s perspective on her home island of Antigua, but it is well worth the time. It will most likely make you think more consciously if you travel as a tourist to the Caribbean.

#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Antigua #audiobook #nonfiction

Word of the Day: honeyfugler 🍯

#nonfiction #history

A young woman backpacking through Bolivia decides to spend a month volunteering at a wildlife sanctuary in the jungle. Falling in love with the animals there changes her life. The descriptions of the personalities of the animals and daily life in the jungle were fantastic.

#memoir #audiobook #nonfiction
#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Bolivia

I enjoyed this story of a Anna Essinger and the effort she put into protecting and educating her students. Early on she realized Hitler‘s rise to power would be a danger to her school, so she found a way to move it to England in 1933. Then she worked tirelessly to provide for students already in her care and to accept more as the war went on. Although not like we would today, she also supported the mental health needs of her students. ⬇️

Well, that was a reading experience. An extremely disturbing, heart wrenching, SAD AF reading experience.

I have a lot of processing to do with this one. Very well written, though.

#nonfiction #truecrime