Finally posting my #Nonfiction2022 bingo board. It looks like I only had one bingo, probably had more if I had matched my books up better to the prompts. Still fun & looking forward to more nonfiction reading in 2023.
pickThe facts here might be outdated, but the principles aren‘t. I was captivated by these Massey lectures in 2005, given by a brilliant and dedicated Canadian diplomat and advocate whose burning passion for justice for Africans, people with AIDS, and women is palpable. He deconstructs racism and sexism that perpetuate the pandemic, and names needed changes. Progress has been made, but more is needed.
#Booked2022 #AboutAIDS
#Nonfiction2022 #ImASaint
My wrap for #Nonfiction2022 : thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for the great prompts and @Amiable for some of the AuldLangSpine suggestions. I didn't do the whole card like last year and the year before (blame it on ReadingAfrica, blame it on Wordle) but there's three bingo lines and lots of amazing books int here.
I‘ve got 2 hours left of Hidden Valley Road (brilliant book!) which I‘ll finish before the year is through but I don‘t think I‘ll have time for any more non-fiction reads this year so posting this now. Thanks for a fab challenge @Riveted_Reader_Melissa looking forward to the 2023 one! ❤️ #nonfiction2022
bailedI really wanted to get through this, but by hour eight of audio I just couldn't...too many people to keep track of, and too much corruption and greed to process at this particular moment in my life. Thanks for the rec, @amiable! It was worth a try, with some interesting nuggets in it.
#Booked2022 #AdaptedForTheSmallScreen
#Nonfiction2022 #ImACriminal
pickAn excellent compilation of 37 essays and reflections on disability, from a wide variety of experiences and looking at different issues: intersections with other oppressions, accessibility, mutual solidarity, incarceration, and being othered in many ways. There‘s a powerful emphasis that I appreciated as a disabled person on telling our stories and speaking our truths for one another.#Nonfiction2022 #Marvelous
#SheSaid
pickGutwrenching bio with multiple themes of colonization, Christian evangelism, eugenics, and racism. It tells the story of Ota Benga, a Mbuti (“pygmy“) Congoloese man who was kidnapped by an American thinly veiled as a missionary, brought to the US for show at the 1904 St. Louis World's fair, exhibited with monkeys at the Bronx Zoo for white people's amusement, then released with Black support.
#ReadingAfrica2022 #DRC
#NonFiction2022 #Outcast
I did it! I finished my #Nonfiction2022 Bingo card. The last one I read for the card was Alone on the Wall, about mountain climber Alex Honnold. I enjoyed a lot of these, and it is hard to pick favorites. I think I‘d rank The Storyteller by Dave Grohl, Going There by Katie Couric, and Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott among my top reads.
It‘s appropriate that I finished this in #NonfictionNovember
pickAn unflinching account of the California Camp Fire, which suddenly sparked and spread without warning, killing 85 and destroying the town of Paradise. It follows several people as they try to escape—the minute-by-minute accounts make you feel like you are fleeing with them. The book also examines the climate conditions and political decisions that contributed to the disaster.
Prompt: I‘m Out of Left Field
And that‘s a wrap for #Nonfiction2022
