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I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir | Chasten Buttigieg

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Remember my #readthecandidates challenge. The best part of it was that I found Pete Buttigieg. I was all in #teampete right up til the End. So when I saw this book coming out I knew I needed to read it ASAP. It did not disappoint. Chasten is SO real! He is honest and hilarious, but his life has NOT been easy. This book made me feel like I know him. So good, and it made me cry a few times too!

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Cinfhen

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

Here‘s my updated bingo board for #NonFictionChallenge2020 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
I made good progress this month, although a few books were really stinkers 😖
I did appreciate Votes for Women, American Pain, The Only Plane in the Sky and The Girl Who Escaped ISIS.
I need ideas for the remaining prompts, if anyone has suggestions 🙏🏻

merelybookish This is not recent but well respected on economics.

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Cinfhen Ohh, thanks!!! It‘s on my TBR @merelybookish ❤️❤️❤️Hope you‘re doing well xx 5y

merelybookish @Cinfhen Its on my TBR too. 🙂 We are doing okay, I guess. But life feels pretty strange as I'm sure you know. Hope you're doing well too! 💕 5y

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Bookwormjillk For Cybersecurity I enjoyed

Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

Cinfhen Thanks so much @Bookwormjillk that was a tough prompt for me 😊Hopefully I‘ll find it!! And it sounds good!!!! 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa About the law I‘m going with

My Own Words

Riveted_Reader_Melissa But these were also great ones I‘ve read in the past...

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Riveted_Reader_Melissa For Cybersecurity you know I‘m currently reading about Gamergate, and this book is really good and goes into not only security but trying to get the social media platforms to be helpful..

Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Riveted_Reader_Melissa For Economics I recommend

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Riveted_Reader_Melissa If you read that, maybe this one which was also very informative

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

Riveted_Reader_Melissa About a candidate...or economics and bailouts...honestly I learned a lot from Elizabeth Warren‘s book if you are interested

A Fighting Chance

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa If not, I suggest escaping the US Presidental group a bit... maybe John Lewis

March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or escaping the US completely...maybe Mandela

Conversations with Myself

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or go candidate adjacent... I‘m sure you read Becoming already, it was excellent if you didn‘t... but how about any other First Lady...or

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

Riveted_Reader_Melissa By the way, the other one I had on my list for Cybersecurity was

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

jenniferw88 If you want to escape to the UK: Class

Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers

jenniferw88 Another class:

Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

jenniferw88 Law:

In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law

jenniferw88 Another law (sequel comes out this year)

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it's Broken

Riveted_Reader_Melissa As far as the social safety net...I think the current situation has opened that wide open, so many things might fit in there now. Medical, UBI, income security, food desserts, functioning government are all becoming much more important to our safety.... 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Maybe

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or

UTOPIA FOR REALISTS.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Or you could go more historical and read about the Great Depression and FDR and where some of the programs were created and why..... sometime the past is easier to read about then current stuff, but still informative 5y

Cinfhen Thank you SO MUCH @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @jenniferw88 your suggestions are so helpful!! Now my TBR is exploding 💜😊 5y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I might actually go read one of the candidates books that I didn‘t last year with #ReadTheCandidates and read Yang...just because his UBI is starting to make a lot of sense suddenly as part of a social safety net.🤷‍♀️

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Another one that‘s been on my TBR for awhile, and that I might shoehorn in here because it‘s sort of about the failure of our current social safety net...

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Side note...I read Barracoon and She Said and counted them for the same squares. 😂 5y

Cinfhen @Riveted_Reader_Melissa #GreatMindsThinkAlike 😜 5y

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BarbaraTheBibliophage

United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good | Cory Booker

Decided to start reading this #candidate #memoir, and then he dropped out of the race today. Hope it wasn‘t because I picked his book! #readthecandidates #nonfictionchallenge2020 #somethingaboutacandidate

Riveted_Reader_Melissa

TheBookHippie I do enjoy him. I heard him speak and talk about his grandma‘s influence on his life, it was really good. 5y

LauraJ Damn you, Barbara! 😹 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @LauraJ IKR! I really like him! 5y

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BarbaraTheBibliophage @TheBookHippie Nice! I think he still has a lot of work to do in the Senate. 5y

TheBookHippie @BarbaraTheBibliophage 😭😭😭 5y

Peaceful_Reader I want to read this also. Pete‘s book was the best candidate book although I‘ve not read Bernie. 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Peaceful_Reader I loved Pete‘s book also. The book by Bernie that I read was very much a campaign piece. Have already heard most of it. 5y

LauraJ @BarbaraTheBibliophage Agree. He‘s young and isn‘t going away anytime soon. 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Running for Office: The Strategies, Techniques, and Messages Modern Political Candidates Need to Win Elections | Ron Faucheux

And I managed 6 this past year for @MelissaSue81 ‘s #ReadTheCandidates, but I‘ll admit, there a few more I still want to read in 2020

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MelissaSue81

The Ultimate Challenge: The 3x+1 Problem | Jeffrey C. Lagarias

#booked2019 was my final challenge of the year to complete. I met all my goals! Have exceeded my goodreads goal of 200 books (was shooting for 250 but I won‘t make it, it was a tough fall). Completed #readharderchallenge , #readingwomenchallenge, #mmdchallenge, #booked2019 and Basically all of #readthecandidates (I admittedly have skipped some of the candidates that don‘t have a real shot). It‘s been a good year!

melissajayne How do you read 200 books? Do you do anything else? I‘m curious. (edited) 5y

CBee ⬆️⬆️⬆️ what she said - I‘m curious too! (edited) 5y

TheAromaofBooks Nice! Great work on checking off those challenges!! 5y

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Deifio Congrats and nice spreadsheet! Very well organised! 5y

MelissaSue81 @melissajayne @CBee , I do other things, yes, lol. Just under half are audiobooks (I am on my 100th audiobook of the year currently!) which I listen to when I commute and do housework. I am fortunate enough to sometimes have quiet time at work when I work evenings when I can read. And I insomnia helps too, lol. 5y

CBee @MelissaSue81 awesome and congrats!! 5y

sprainedbrain Awesome!!! 🥳🥳🥳 5y

melissajayne @MelissaSue81 ok. 5y

Smarkies Amazing year! I like how you have tracked it. May think of copying that for next year. 5y

MelissaSue81 @Smarkies - I used the BookRiot Reading Log spreadsheet and copied their formulas for the Read Harder Challenge and just plugged in these. So I have all my challenges (Except #MMDChallenge) on one google sheet.
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BkClubCare Wow! 5y

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MelissaSue81

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose | Joseph R Biden

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This was my #bookgiftedtome for #booked2019 and also an entry for my #readthecandidates challenge. I actually really enjoyed this. Joe Biden shows his humanity in this story of a terribly difficult time in his life with the loss of his son.i see the appeal of Joe Biden when I see this side of him. It was terribly sad at parts but yet ended on a hopeful note. Was on the fence about this one but glad I listened to it.

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BarbaraTheBibliophage I cried my eyes out a few times with this ... 5y

Cinfhen Ok, I‘m sold... #stacked 5y

alisiakae Did you ever see him on Colbert Report talking about his son? It was such an emotional and moving interview. 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Now in November | Josephine W. Johnson

My #NovemberWrapUp! I‘m on track to finish The Last Jedi tonight, so it‘s on here.🤞

Otherwise 5 for #NFNov, plus a few that cross-counted for #Booked2019 #Nonfiction2019 & #ReadTheCandidates
3 buddy reads #FellowshipOfTolkien #StarWarsBuddyRead & #PratchettPosse or #OokBOokClub
1 for #LMPBC
2 series completed
+whatever else floated my boat this past month. 😂

November you went by way too fast, how did we get this close to the end of the year😱

MelissaSue81, TheSpineView, rsteve388

TheSpineView Way to go!💜📚 5y

Clwojick 1 pt. 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class | Elizabeth Warren

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I‘ve read a lot with #ReadTheCandidates, but Warren is the first that I went back for a second book. She does a great job of laying it all out here, both her ideas & what shaped them. What we‘ve done right, where we went off track, & the forces steering the decisions. Her past as a teacher shines through here, explaining things in a great, easy to understand way. This book is so good and stark, but filled with determination and hope to make..⤵️

MelissaSue81

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...change for the better going forward. #NFNov #NonfictionMatters #Nonfiction2019 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class | Elizabeth Warren

#NFNov #ReadtheCandidates #NonfictionMatters #Nonfiction2019

Howard_L Warren‘s book certainly offers the most in the way of plans and ideas. 5y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class | Elizabeth Warren

I watched the Sunday shows again today (This Week & Meet the Press) and the cable networks after the debate and again I heard about how she‘s too liberal/left or else they talk about Biden, Bernie, and Buttigieg and don‘t even mention her name.... but for me, watching them all and reading a bunch of them this year with #ReadTheCandidates I think she has more widespread appeal than they are giving her credit for. Some Trump voters voted for ⤵️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...Change. More for systematic change than him personally, and I think bought in to all his promises. We‘ll see, eventually, but at this point I think the pundits aren‘t giving her enough credit. #NFNov #ReadtheCandidates #NonfictionMatters #Nonfiction2019 5y

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