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Day 3 of #12Booksof2024

@Andrew65

1. Tagged book that I picked up from someone in my free cycle group.

2. I stumbled on a series of Hamilton reaction videos. Very thorough and insightful.

3. Tom and Lorenzo‘s podcast gives me joy most weeks, especially the last episode.

4. 2025 author a month list.

5. Vietnamese coffee, where have you been all my life?

#5joysfriday

#DaysDevotedTo @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

This series, Hard Ink, is about a group friends who are veterans trying to clear their name after taking the fall for a corrupt commander and the women they meet and fall for along the way.

A long time since a read a book of short stories. These were great and nice to break it up a bit

Another so-so. I‘m not having outstanding audio listens lately. 😐 The MC in this one is difficult to like, though she has her reasons, and it felt like there were one too many threads in the storyline.

“They didn‘t have enough room in their little house to put the big flag together. “

A teacher could use this book to introduce the history of the flag, and the symbolism within. Students could design their own flags after reading the story and discuss the symbolism behind their flags.

Week 9: Historical Fiction! Amazing story about flags and the makers. This story has many clues that pertain to the timing of this story. The illustrations are bright and beautiful, really matching the story. Published: 1988.

Just one NONFICTION book completed in September—but it likely would have been the winner anyway. This is the kind of narrative nonfiction that really grabs me.
#2024ReadingBrackets

THIS is what narrative nonfiction should be. David Simon‘s classic account of a year in the Baltimore Police Dept.‘s homicide unit, it became the basis for the award-winning TV series “Homicide: Life in the Streets” and “The Wire.” It‘s dark, it‘s dreary, it‘s gritty —and it‘s incredibly compelling. I am in awe of Simon‘s prose —he has a gift for putting words together.