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First book completed for #Nonfiction2023. A wonderful, lovely, heartbreaking read. Highly recommend.

Prompt: Same Love

My 1st book completed for #AuldLangSpine and it‘s a 5-star read! Ruth Coker Burks is an angel— and I don‘t toss that word around lightly. In 1986 she began helping young men with AIDS in her community in Arkansas. Nobody else would do it —not their families, not the doctors and nurses, not the preachers, not the “good Christians” in town. She recognized them as human beings and gave them dignity in death. A powerful, lovely read. Thanks, Deb!

Thanks for the tag @Crazeedi - this week‘s questions are soooo difficult @Eggs ! 🤪

1. Loved the tag book which I read recently.
2. I don‘t think I have a fave genre but I love the crime / mystery novels by Angela Marsons. She‘s my go-to author.
3. I found both Columbine and Parkland by Dave Cullen fascinating, although tough.

Who else wants to play?

And I finished it with a little cry 😭 with all the prejudice and discrimination in the world, we should all be grateful for the heroes like Ruth. Who took on everything and everyone to help fight for these men to be able to die with some dignity and love.
Ruth is a true hero ♥️

Such a heartbreaking book - I cried a few times. 😢 But also strangely uplifting too.

Ruth cares for people with AIDS in the mid-eighties when everyone else around was ostracising them (and worse). I don‘t know how she found the willpower to keep pushing against society, but I‘m glad she did and told her story here.

One of my favourite reads of the year so far.

Definitely a worthwhile read. Heartbreaking to read how these dying young men were abandoned by their families and also the medical establishment. Ruth is really a force for good in the world.

Ruth Coker Burks is the kind of woman who ran towards a problem that no one else wanted to help with. In the early days of the AIDS crisis she helped the young gay men who had no one else. The book is simultaneously hopeful and heartbreaking. You‘ll find parallels between the epidemic of AIDS and today‘s pandemic—and many differences. Burks is definitely a quiet hero.

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So far, so heartbreaking. This is a great book (only about a third of the way through) but my heart hurts for all those young men whose family turned their back on them.

Starting this today ... ugh, I hate when I get behind with ARCs. So I‘m not even worrying about challenge prompts while I catch up! And yes, this one is already very moving!

Sometimes a simple act of kindness can alter a life, and in this case thousands of lives. One ordinary woman did something extraordinary. Ruth Coker Burks a single mother, barely able to support her little girl, finds herself the lifeline for a community of young men who were alone, sick and suffering from the AIDS virus in the early days of the disease. It‘s an inspiring & heartbreaking story. #NetGalley #ARC

#ARC #NetGalley This story of one woman‘s battle against an entire country is pretty amazing. Ruth Coker Burks is a true everyday hero 🙌🏻💖Fascinating story so far. I‘m curious to see how then Governor Bill Clinton handled the AIDS crisis in his home state of Arkansas.

It was a very good #NetGalley week. Just when I start to work my shelf down, I find more books I *really* want to read! #bookhaul #arc #advancedreaderscopy