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It‘s non fiction November so I‘m posting my current read. This is the true story that inspired Colson Whitehead‘s book the Nickel Boys. I‘ve just started this and it is already gut wrenching and heartbreaking.
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Despite further proof that we are fucked, I loved this #nonfictionnovember

I. Did. It. #finishwhatyoustarted #nonfictionnovember #allergictochunksters 11 years ago my brother in law gifted this to me, it was an absolute favourite of his and it makes sense to me how it resonated with him. As a woman, I feel the lack of female representation in this gigantic tome of a book appalling. It starts with son and ends with father which is a beautiful full circle for him as a gay man but leaves out 50% of the population

A detailed —or rather, overly detailed — memoir. (Ex. 100 pages in, Cher is still only 15 years old.) Some interesting tidbits here and there, but way too much about her clothes. I feel like I learned about every dress, pair of shoes, crop top and bell-bottomed jeans she ever wore. Probably won‘t read part 2. (Or 3? How many of these are on tap?)

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This is a light pick for me. I enjoyed it but didn‘t love it. I appreciated the early history of how bookstores developed in the U.S. and found the stories of well-known independent bookstores interesting. However, this is an incredibly broad topic, and hearing about a few specific bookstores I know or have visited just made me want to learn of more variety for my list.

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This was good! My #bookspin for November @TheAromaofBooks #nonfictionNovember

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a Litsy find I picked up after seeing @TEArificbooks post about it. Lovely memoir weaving together the pieces together timeline of the unexpected death of the author‘s husband while they were apart, and her sojourn to Flinders Island three years later when she finally stopped to grieve and heal. #nfn #nonfictionnovember

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you‘d asked me who Ione Skye was a couple of weeks ago I would have come up empty, but she was part of just about every Gen X coming of age touchpoint… In Say Anything, dated Anthony Kiedis (as a teenager 😬), married Ad Rock, dated Madonna‘s ex-girlfriends, and somehow wrote a very dishy memoir that was mature and insightful and not tawdry. Really enjoyed it! #nfn #nonfictionnovember

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 I‘m in Michigan but this wasn‘t on my radar until I happened to hear about an event with the author. The talk and book were both really interesting, weaving in context about Great Lakes shipping, the commerce and industry that drove it, the Edmund Fitzgerald itself and several members of the crew and their families, and even the making to the Gordon Lightfoot song. I learned a lot! #nfn #nonfictionnovember

I‘ve read a few books about Tolkien, Lewis, and the Inklings, and I still thoroughly enjoyed the style and perspective of this book. It‘s not strictly a graphic novel biography as it alternates full pages of text with panels and also includes a few narrative fantasy elements, but it is full of factual information about both writers and their friendship. The art was also great.

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