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Book 11 from the #wpnf25 longlist.

All about what damage humankind is doing to the oceans, and thus to global ecological structures, this was alternately depressing and slightly hopeful.

This is one occasion where the author reading their own book really worked - you could hear her passion and enthusiasm shining through.

The #WPNF25 nonfiction list has taken a total back seat to the fiction prize for me, but I do have Wild Sea, and Cherry's autobiography checked out from the library so I will be reading one of those as I wait for more fiction books to arrive in the mail.

So far I have read 2 - Autocracy and Fish. How is everyone else doing?

Book 10 of the #wpnf25 longlist.

In this heart-warming book the author finds an abandoned leveret at the start of COVID lockdown. I appreciated that she was unsure initially whether to even take it in or not and it never felt like she was ‘playing God‘ throughout the book.

I particularly liked how she was able to watch the hare at such close quarters that she turned accepted/assumed knowledge about hares upside down.

On my shortlist for sure!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Really great book interweaving the stories of the children and families on either side of a pediatric heart transplant, the providers who cared for them, and the history of the medical breakthroughs required for transplants to occur. My only quibble is that the transitions between the timelines and the inclusion of the history was a little clunky at times, but overall a remarkable book and a strong pick from the #WPNF25 long list.

I didn‘t know anything about Neneh but this was such a compelling listen. I loved hearing about her childhood in Sweden and all of her life experiences. The main thing that shone through was her love of/from her family. She comes across as very perceptive and I relate to the way she speaks about her children. I just wanted to keep listening 🩷 #wpnf25

This was one of the books from the #WPNF25 list I was most excited for and it did not disappoint. It‘s a banger of a book, detailing the life of Polish resistance fighter Elzbieta Zawacka in WWII and beyond. She was a remarkable woman. If you love historical fiction but are wary of NF, give this one a try.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Delightful memoir of a woman who came across a struggling, abandoned juvenile hare and went on to raise it after realizing it couldn‘t be returned to its mother. I really enjoyed both her experiences and the documentation of the hare‘s behaviors, and the interweaving with biological and historical information. The end dragged a bit with the inclusion of some ecological advocacy, but overall a great #WPNF25 pick!

This was cheap on kindle so ended up buying it for #wpnf25. I found the writing really engaging. The way the subject matter was written about through a social commentary lens, aswell as the bits about the newspaper journalist Harry Procter, was done so well. You really get a sense of the time and place. There is no concrete conclusion when it comes to the murders & motives etc but the author has clearly done her research with this book.

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This was a fascinating read about a period of human history I knew little about, the Viking age. I appreciate the way this was organized; chapters were focused on universal human experiences such as “love”, “play”, “beginnings” and “endings”. I found it fascinating to learn how anthropologists have learned about the people living during this time period using artifacts found in bogs, drawings, bones, burials, and more.

Here are my March #Roll100 picks! Everything is packed up for my move, so after I get to the other end and my boxes meet me, I‘ll dig through and find these. I only managed to read one for February (and it was a bail), but I still have the others pulled aside. I got distracted by the #WPNF25 list. 🤭