Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#MonthlyNonfiction2025
blurb
peanutnine
post image

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 reads @julieclair
Three great books finished in May

julieclair Well done!!! 👏 8h
32 likes1 comment
review
DebinHawaii
post image
Pickpick

#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction2025 #RealHistory

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 ⬇️

Librarybelle This is a good one for #RealHistory ! 3d
tpixie @DebinHawaii this was an amazing read about an incredible woman! 2d
DieAReader 💖💖💖 2d
julieclair Wow. Stacking. 7h
46 likes2 stack adds5 comments
review
DebinHawaii
post image
Pickpick

#Read100 #MonthlyNonFiction2025

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 ⬇️

DebinHawaii … them as well as a long-standing aversion to milk & a hesitant (okay in crust or s‘mores) relationship to graham crackers. This traumatic episode & the fact that I‘ve not read John Green before made it unclear why I felt the need to put the ebook of this book about TB on library hold 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I‘m glad I did. It was actually a quite interesting & compelling look at a disease that is considered the world‘s deadliest. ⬇️ 3d
DebinHawaii …That it is a curable disease but there is such disparate care given based on economic & racial inequality & greed is beyond angering. This book doesn‘t go too deep into the science so it‘s accessible & Green personalizes the story by following the path of a young patient in Sierra Leone. An important book & just an excellent read, this will be a top title for me this year & maybe get me to read more Green. 3d
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2d
julieclair Excellent review. And what a sad story about your personal experience with the TB vaccine and the lingering after effects. 💝 6h
55 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
TheBookgeekFrau
Untitled | Untitled
post image

May Wrap-up

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

DieAReader 🎉🥳Excellent!!! 3d
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 3d
30 likes2 comments
blurb
willaful
post image

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.)

#RealHistory #HonestHistory #MonthlyNonfiction2025

Librarybelle On my to read list! 7d
julieclair This sounds like an important read. 6d
willaful @julieclair So important. 6d
29 likes3 comments
review
peanutnine
post image
Pickpick

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

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1w
See All 10 Comments
ncsufoxes This one has been on my list. Our society does expect disabled people to conform to what they find acceptable or within the norm. My son uses text to talk & talk to text software. When he was young we had so much push back on having it on his IEP. I got told he had to physically be able to write words. I always said if business people & doctors can use the same software why can‘t a kid that has speech & auditory processing delays use it. 1w
peanutnine @ncsufoxes wow 😡 the hypocrisy is ridiculous 1w
ncsufoxes @peanutnine unfortunately people blame people for their disabilities (not that it is something that people can usually prevent) & feel that it is up to them to meet societal norms. Most people don‘t realize how ableist society is until they have to navigate it. Accommodations & inclusion benefit everyone but we put those things out of reach for most disabled people. I was thinking about the new glasses Meta made, which they gave out to 1w
ncsufoxes influencers or celebrities & maybe a handful of disabled people (a guy I follow on IG has RP & he was given a pair). Instead of giving it exclusively to disabled people to test & get the word out they give it to people that don‘t necessarily need it. Instead they‘ll charge disabled people full price for something that would benefit them. Tech stuff for disabilities is super expensive, most people can‘t afford it. Unless your state has programs. 1w
peanutnine @ncsufoxes oh yeah. My cousin was paralyzed at 16 and it's crazy the amount of hoops my aunt has to go through just to keep her day to day care and fighting with insurance to prove that she needs something 7d
julieclair This sounds like a book everyone should read. 6d
peanutnine @julieclair for sure! 6d
38 likes3 stack adds10 comments
blurb
julieclair
June | Lori Copeland
post image

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 🙂

willaful I didn't do a chunkster for May but I plan on Table for Two for June. For nonfiction I'm thinking My Life as a Villainess by Laura Lippman. 1w
See All 15 Comments
Librarybelle I have to think about #ThematicCozies for June! 1w
kspenmoll Thanks for posting this! 1w
TheSpineView I just finished a chunkster. Hope to read another in June. 🤞📖📚 1w
dabbe Thank you, m'dear! 💚💜💚 1w
tpixie Oh wow! I‘m finishing this 640 pg book up! I should # it! 1w
peanutnine I think I'll try to read this nonfiction, it seems timely 1w
BookmarkTavern Still got to pick my cozy for this month! 1w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! So apparently I don't have very many 500s??? I can't find one anyway 😂 However, I think I own more 600s than any other number - way into applied sciences around here AKA gardening!! So I am going to grab one of those, and if I find a 500 later I'll fit it in. For Fictional Traveler I'm heading to England with Wodehouse, and my ReadorDonate pick is by Nora Roberts - Carolina Moon. I'm excited!!! 1w
Crinoline_Laphroaig #ThematicCozies I'm do another Roof Top Garden mystery by Thea Cambert. 1w
willaful Just remembered I have a nonfiction book on my Kindle already, so I'm set. 5d
48 likes15 comments
review
TheBookgeekFrau
post image
Pickpick

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

37/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader 🎉Excellent!! 1w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1w
39 likes2 comments
blurb
TheBookgeekFrau
post image

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

TheAromaofBooks Gotta go where the reading winds take you 😂 2w
julieclair Flexibility is wonderful! 😊 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @julieclair It's better than moodiness 🤣 2w
44 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
willaful
post image

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*. 😫

35 likes1 comment