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Three great books finished in May

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Finished last week for #SheSaid Elizabeth Packard was an amazing woman who I knew very little about until this book. She did so much to fight for her own rights but even more to fight for the rights of the voiceless—women & those with mental health issues, or really rather, those who were judged to be insane but were not & typically forced into asylums by husbands or male family members to silence ⬇️

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Finished a few weeks ago. When I was in kindergarten we had to have a TB skin test where we lined up. The nurse(?) administering it told me “to watch the bubble” & I promptly passed out. I woke up on a cot, was forced to drink the carton of warm whole milk that was sitting outside class in a wagon all morning & eat a graham cracker & the entire experience left me with a decades long phobia of needles & seeing ⬇️

May Wrap-up

Total read: 7
#BookSpin ✔️
#DoubleSpin ❌
#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 - 5
#MonthlyNonfiction2025 - 1
#AllergicToChunksters - 0
5 Star Read: 1
DNF: 1

A powerful listening experience. It's a sad, horrific, true story of the massive consequences of health inequality, told with humanity and grace. I understand now why this became his cause, and there's hope in the fact that so much has and still can be done to help. (Though as an American, it's hard not to fear we've taken such a wrong turn, we soon won't even be able to help ourselves.)

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This was a really insightful discussion about disability and how most of society expects the disabled to use technology to become "normal" instead of changing our expectations and the world to better serve them.
Each topic was approached in a lighthearted manner, while also calling out the ableist biases typically involved. It definitely brought some things to my attention.
This was my May #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks and #roll100 @PuddleJumper

For June, I decided to try making one post for the monthly challenges I host. I‘m excited to see what everyone will be reading!

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 - your choice, or if you‘re progressing through the Dewey numbers, 500-599

#FictionalTraveler - A Place You‘d Like to Visit

#ThematicCozies - Celebration

#ReadOrDonate - Your Choice

#AllergicToChunksters - Continue with whatever you‘re currently plowing through, or start something new 🙂

From before radio to the smartphone how the world changed and one man exemplified going with the flow. Highly recommended!

37/80

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#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

Swapping out my #DoubleSpin #MonthlyNonfiction2025 for a #BookSpinBingo nonfiction because mood reading 😂

This is definitely interesting, but I felt a certain amount of skepticism about it as “science.“ I have a Psychology degree and not only have I seen a fair amount of what I learned in college debunked, but I also had to participate in an experiment which I found completely bogus. Nonetheless, if you accept their theories it does make sense out of a lot of otherwise inexplicable behavior. I would love to see a new update on Trump, *again*. 😫