02 April, 2022

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake (BookTube Prize for Nonfiction - Group G)

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 Winner of the National Book Award, this book is my biggest surprise and ultimate favorite read for this round of judging. This is a fantast...

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (BookTube Prize for Nonfiction 2022 - Group G)

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 I went into reading this book with an understanding that it has been a nonfiction darling from 2021 and was likely to be an extremely reada...

Punch Me Up to the Gods (BookTube Prize for Nonfiction 2022 - Group G)

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 Brian Broome’s debut book and memoir is not something I likely would have picked up on my own as the blurb makes it clear that this book do...

Sombody's Daughter (BookTube Prize for Nonfiction - Group G)

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 In Somebody’s Daughter, Ashley C. Ford takes the reader (or listener in my case) through her life, beginning with a more recent event in th...

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights (BookTube Prize for Nonfiction 2022 - Group G)

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 The Agitators is a history of three women who lived prior to, during, and after the Civil War and were socially connected to each other thr...

A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (2022 BookTube Prize for Nonfiction - Group G)

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 A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul is a science and nature nonfiction book about the most recen...
08 September, 2018

2018 Read Harder Challenge Update

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Read: 17 books Fiction - 11 Nonfiction - 6 Books that counted towards the "Read Harder" challenge - 10 Here's a breakdown...
16 October, 2016

Happy October! I'm on Booktube?

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Hey all! Happy "it's finally Fall in New England". It's fucking gorgeous out there. Well, not at this very moment (at this...
13 September, 2016

#DiverseAThon tentative TBR

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The #DiverseAThon is a read-a-thon on booktube this week, inspired in part by a pretty angry video posted a few weeks ago that really shunne...
11 September, 2016

Readalong with Booktube - The Fellowship of the Ring, pt. 1

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I have been reading along with the guys over at Stripped Cover Lit to The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's definitely...
30 August, 2016

(Now past) Mid-year update

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It's been quite a while since my last post here. Regularly scheduled long-form blogging doesn't always come to mind as my go-to for ...
01 February, 2016

January Wrap Up!

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What I read in January: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, 3 stars on Goodreads Fatale, Vol. 1: Death chases me by...