MonthlyNonfiction2025

Read six books from my #BookSpin list and got two bingos.

#MonthlyNonfiction2025: The Mythmakers The Mad Files, One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman, and Puzzled.

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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life | Anne Bogel

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Written by a reader, for readers, these lovely essays on the fun and foibles of a reading life are totally relatable for book nerds. I recognized myself in these pages! This was my #MonthlyNonfiction2025 pick for August.
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Book Lovers Reading Challenges: Themed Reading Challenges for Avid Book Readers | Bubble Hub Books

Here are my selections for my various reading choices this month. Excited to see what everyone else has chosen!

#ReadOrDonate - The Friend Zone

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 - The Last Pirate of New York

#ThematicCozies #Books - DyingToRead

#FictionalTraveler #EnglishSpeaking - The Museum of Ordinary People

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TheBookHippie I actually am keeping up! Them forget to post!!! Oy. 2d

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The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain! | David Mikics

If like me, you grew up feeling you intimately knew movies you'd never seen, you might also enjoy these writings on MAD by authors & cartoonists. (Roz Chast & Art Spiegelman contribute short comics.) I was especially intrigued by pieces on the few women contributors and the Jewish influences on MAD, including a Talmud comparison! It needed pruning because there's a *lot* of repeated info, but overall a fun, nostalgic read.

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julieclair This looks intriguing! I was never a Mad reader myself, but I knew plenty of kids who were. It truly was a cultural phenomenon in the pre-internet days. 3w

willaful @julieclair I'm not sure the book would be that interesting to a non fan. 2w

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One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story | Abi Maxwell

A heartbreaking, harrowing memoir that often had me in tears. Abi Maxwell loves all the family history in her New Hampshire town, until she discovers that her “nice“ neighbors have no compunctions about denying the rights and needs of her transgender/autistic child.

The book piles on dramatic emphasis a bit too much, but the text never fails to respect the author's daughters identity, which I admire tremendously.

CW in comments.

willaful rape in the past (not graphic)
sexual assault of author as a child in the past (not graphic)
dissociation
depression and suicidal feelings
transphobia, of course
ableism
bullying 3w

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TheAromaofBooks Great progress! 3w

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Feeding Ghosts: A Memoir | Tessa Hulls

Found the sixties in this graphic memoir! #WickedWords @AsYouWish

Also my August nonfiction for #MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

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

July #MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
It was interesting that both of these books discussed the covid pandemic and its affects on the main subject. Serendipitous timing

julieclair Interesting how the pandemic could influence two such completely different topics. But come to think of it, the pandemic probably influenced just about every topic imaginable. 1mo

peanutnine @julieclair so very true. I think I just haven't read much nonfiction that had been written after the pandemic and actually talked about it in such detail. Certainly interesting that I read these two back to back that did 4w

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