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steffen1223
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Svetlana Alexievich's “Zinky Boys“ offers a firsthand perspective on the experiences of Soviet veterans from the war of the 1980s. The English translation effectively conveys these accounts, providing American audiences with valuable insights into the Soviet experience during the conflict.

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Sara_Planz
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This is an unflinching oral history featuring the good and bad aspects these women encountered in the spotlight in a segregated America. These women were often still in their teens, unable to make their own career choices, and found themselves working hard without seeing any real benefit. This book also gives us an understanding of the songwriting process, the recording sessions, and the relentless touring that would take a toll on these groups.

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JLaurenceCohen
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The definitive oral history of the making of Mad Max: Fury Road, one of the longest-gestating and most ambitious movies ever filmed. After seeing Furiosa, I wanted to go back and learn the crazy story of how they made this wild movie.

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Pruzy
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When it first came out, I just wasn‘t ready for this book. Now that a number of years have gone by, the time felt right. This is an amazing read filled with anecdotes from the people who knew him and constructed by Laurie Woolever into a narrative that was much better than I even hoped.

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Kimberlone
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I‘ve been a fan of Anthony Bourdain since the No Reservations days and have read all of his non-fiction (including a couple co-written with this author), so this has been on my Kindle TBR for ages. I was a bit disappointed with the Roadrunner documentary, so I was happy that this book delved a lot deeper into Bourdain‘s life before Kitchen Confidential and the early TV days before he was a household name. Unfortunately, 👇🏼 (cont‘d)

Kimberlone I do think this book had a similar flaw to the documentary, in placing far too much blame on his last relationship for the chaos of the end of his life (and eventual suicide), rather than putting the responsibility with him (an incredibly successful, rich, 60-something man with full autonomy, but plenty of decades-long personal demons that preceded that relationship). 7mo
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Kimberlone
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Final April #BookSpinBingo card. I finished my #Bookspin (tagged) and read 7 total books last month.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 7mo
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Booksbymybed
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Finally I‘ve read this very important book. So much sorrow from each tale, each personal tragedy. From the inability of humanity to learn and get better. Almost 40 years passed and we are no better off.

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Kimberlone
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April #BookspinBingo card! My #Bookspin is Bourdain (excited to finally have the impetus to read this Kindle book I bought on a deal ages ago!) and my #DoubleSpin is Green Dot (an ARC I won from a Goodreads giveaway a few months ago).

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 8mo
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willaful
Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! | David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker
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A soft pick, for fans only. I didn't care for the lack of structure here; it's just interviews pieced together, some read by the people who actually said them and some not. I found it a bit confusing, and I wasn't that interested in the parts that weren't directly concerned with the making of “Airplane.“ But once into that, it was very interesting and often funny. Plus, #ISpyBingo 😁

Faranae It's hard to watch Zero Hour! having first seen Airplane, so the pair are one of my few “I wish I could forget this thing and experience this for the first time again“ items. I'd also really love to get my hands on the original CBC “Flight Into Danger“, which is apparently available for purchase to qualified researchers and otherwise a nearly lost film despite starring James Doohan. 9mo
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nanuska_153
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Mehso-so

This is a collection of migrants stories, their reasons to cross to the US and their problems in transit and once they reached their destination. I was more interested on the appendix than in the stories, the timeline about how US interference caused instability in central America and how their policies affected the migrants was brief but interesting.I was surprised when I went back and I saw that women's stories were about 40% of the book,because

nanuska_153 I didn't think their problems were represented. I saw on the Glossary that 80% suffer sexual violence on transit, rape being considered part of the price that women pay for travelling to the US and how they are also abused in the immigration centers. Despite this shocking percentage this theme doesn't appear at all on any of the stories chosen to reflect the lives of the migrants, having to learn about it in a Glossary makes me think ⬇️ 9mo
nanuska_153 that it had to be avoided on purpose. Overall it left me with the feeling that a better book with migrants stories has to exist, if you find it let me know 9mo
Ruthiella Have you read this? It‘s focus is children migrants, but it is supposed to be very good 9mo
nanuska_153 @Ruthiella no, I haven't, but it does look good. I'll add it to my list. Thanks! 9mo
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