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BkClubCare
The Art of Power | Nancy Pelosi
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Audiobooked and skipped a few chapters; needed a “female leader” for the #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge. #June2025 Book52

ChaoticMissAdventures I hate when people say this but I found her lack of humility throughout this book a bit jarring. I felt throughout she was saying never in her career has she made any mistakes. It is a biography and she can portray herself however she wants but I didn't think it was done with much self reflection. 19h
BkClubCare @ChaoticMissAdventures - I actually was cognizant of your thoughts on this as I listened. I could agree and yet I also didn‘t get an impression that she was over boastful. And she is right about the current regime wanting to wreck tradition. 18h
BkClubCare @ChaoticMissAdventures - reading your comment again: “I hate when people say this” What do people say? Do you mean being critical of women being TOO humble or NOT ENOUGH but men don‘t get the same criticism? 18h
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ChaoticMissAdventures @BkClubCare yes, totally, I hate to hear or say that women should be humble, men never get that criticism. I think in general women need to be more loud and proud about their work, but I also think we should own our mistakes. I am glad to hear you don't really agree. I might need to read some of it again. 16h
BkClubCare @ChaoticMissAdventures - well, just know… I am not a close follower of her at all. I am newer or lapsed follower of congresspeople in specific. So I really came to this wondering why, for example, my father hates-her-with-a-passion. So I was inclined to like her version of things , ifyouknowwhatImean 😏 13h
ChaoticMissAdventures @BkClubCare ha! Yes the more certain people hate some politicians the more I like them. My big complaint with her is she needs to pass the torch fully. But that is a bigger general political issue. 12h
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Decalino
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This look at the rise of the Christian Right and its implications for society was an engrossing wake-up call but also a very tough read. In particular, the section on the use of corporal punishment, the infliction of pain upon children in order to compel unquestioning obedience, was searing and grim. Inextricably tied to the issue of women's freedom and children's rights, Christian nationalism is an all too real and terrifying force in America.

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CSeydel
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My June #bookspin picks! I‘ve had the Horowitz on my shelf for, oh, 20, 25 years now. I was quite the little college Republican. I suppose it may seem dated now, but I‘ll give it a try - if I can‘t get into it, then I‘ll make myself let it go. And Horowitz just passed away this year, so it‘s as good a time as any to revisit his writing.

Bag of Bones was my gift in a Halloween swap a couple of years ago and I‘ve somehow not yet read it. Let‘s go!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 3d
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LeslieO
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#ReadingRecap #MayRecap

Bingo! ✅
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5⭐️✅✅ (the tagged book and Ordinary Time)

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Fantastic month!! 3d
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LiteraryHoarderPenny
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Loving this so far. All epistolary 🥰

Aims42 Awww, yay! I‘m on a very long waitlist at my library for this book 😩 I‘m kinda thinking I‘ll break down and just buy it, it sounds really good! 3d
LiteraryHoarderPenny @Aims42 I understand 100%! I had to wait a long time for my library to bring it in! I hesitated buying because it‘s a hardcover and just about 280 pages. So I didn‘t want to make that kind of investment. But. I do this all the time - just get fed up waiting and buy it! 🙂 3d
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BarbaraBB I‘ve heard such good things about this book 3d
LiteraryHoarderPenny @BarbaraBB it‘s very good so far! 🥰 2d
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keithmalek

The history of the next fifty years will be the story of how we deal with--or fail to deal with-- the coming food shortages.

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keithmalek

Bananas (continued):
Organics also tend to be grown at higher, drier elevations to somewhat limit pests, which means the bananas need massive irrigation to grow. The result is the food product with the highest chemical and carbon footprint, as well as the highest staff turnovers from death in any industry. Happy eating.

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keithmalek

For those of you organic buffs who refuse to eat anything that's been touched with anything artificial, know that a roughly half-mile radius around organic banana plantations is practically nuked with non-organic pesticides and herbicides and fungicides to protect your proclivities.

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RayHallucinogen
On Palestine | Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
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The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Any interference from the outside world is immediately castigated as naïve at best or anti-Semitic at worst.

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