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"When talking about progress, people usually look to the future. This book looks to the past."

Such an amazing eye-opening account of the history of Hollywood & the huge role women played in its start. It follows the path of Helen Gibson, the first Hollywood stuntwoman in the 1910s, beginning with her involvement in rodeo & through her rise as a serial queen.
O'Meara brilliantly combines biography, history & humor, making this story easy to love

February #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads
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February Wrap-Up
Total Read: 11 (I'm shocked!)

✔️ #BookSpin
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8 #ReadMyTBR #Read2025
2 #MonthlyNonfiction2025
4 DNF

I'm trying to get away from numerical goals but the satisfaction of a full board does make it harder. 😋

#Roll100 The Hazelbourne Ladies (and still working on last month's The Book of Love

#AAM Opnions

#AllergicToChunksters The Hazelbourne Ladies, Legendborn, Bloodmarked

#RiseUpReads DNF

#ReadOrDonate Mistress to a Millionaire (DNF & donated)

#QueerBC DNF

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 Navigate Your Stars, How We Learn to be Brave

I‘m hoping to finish more than one of these in March for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 . 🤞☘️

What interesting reads does everyone else have on their lists?

All are welcome to join, just let me know if you‘d like to be added to the tag list.

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This book made me laugh out loud a couple of times, but more importantly, it made me think. A lot. Roxane Gay‘s down-to-Earth writing style is so approachable. Even when I didn‘t agree with her opinions, she helped me focus on what my own opinions are. In the end, I realized that, like her, I am a Bad Feminist. But that‘s better than not being a feminist at all.

#authoramonth @Soubhiville
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February seems to be the month of DNFs for me 😕

I just couldn't with the writing and flow of this book.

17/80

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#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

The subtitle of We Still Here covers the main topics within: pandemic, policing, protest, and possibility. This book was published in 2020 and is organized in interviews format. The chapters Justice for “All” and Whose Violence? were especially powerful.
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@Riveted_Reader_Melissa @julieclair

Even more applicable now than when it was published 2 years ago. I'm not Christian, nor very religious, but Budde writes with so much openness and inclusion, I felt welcomed into the book. She also uses examples from various cultural touchstones and from a diverse group of people, as well as from the bible. Very worth a read, though I disliked her tendency to paraphrase in quotation marks.

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A soul warming story of faith and made family.

13/80

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