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#12BooksOf2025 October well , if you want to read about how it all went , here it is , with all the highs and lows . 🤔Things could have been a lot different!

The author spends more time talking about Trump than the subject of the biography.

I finished this book just before the new year. And it was the perfect book for it. It‘s a reminder that the new year will be decided.

Sigh. Not a lot new to be gleaned from this book but perhaps bc the wound that is the ‘24 election is still fresh. I hope years from now it shows a true inflection point for the US. Only time will tell.

Finishing this makes my yearly total 94. Not bad by any means, even if it is short of my 💯 Goal.

Happy New Year, Litsy pals. I hope the year ahead is kind to us all. We deserve it.

If there is one quote in all this that I can genuinely understand, it‘s this one. Growing up in a mixed race household is never easy. And she is a better woman than I am. #kamalaharris #saiditwithherfullchest

I‘m on to the next one. 😁

This book is a collection of essays published online from about 2011-2014 on topical issues, from the treatment of the most vulnerable to the state of academia. They are through the lens of a writer based in St Louis rather than one of the coasts. Because of the structure, there‘s a fair amount of repetition, but it‘s interesting to see where we were then and how things now are somehow so much worse.

Wasnt planning for the tagged to most likely be my Christmas week read but when your library hold comes in, you gotta answer the call 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wondered through this book if I‘d have the same empathy reaction to her book if I hadn‘t supported her in the beginning. It‘s not entirely a platform defining book, but an explanation of the gigantic lift it took to run a presidential campaign for 107 days. It humanized Harris- both her strengths and her flaws. It‘s a book to read and discuss, beyond her politics, but just the whole election that was so chaotic.

It took me all month to read this just because I knew the ending, and it‘s so easy to judge in hindsight. I‘m glad I persevered though because the afterword was excellent. #NonfictionNovember