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Recent acquisitions:

📖 W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne
📖 Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning by Norman Rabkin
📖 Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

Today, I‘m sharing my #weeklyfavorites. The book I finished this week was The Great Abolitionist which is a Netgalley ARC about a civil rights hero. I enjoyed this book which surprised me because I don‘t like learning about American History but this book was interesting. I liked how this one was written. It was slow in the beginning but it never felt dry or boring to me.

Here‘s my review for a book I just finished reading. American History isn‘t my favorite subject to learn about but I ended up enjoying this book anyway. Will I read more books about American History? I don‘t know but I liked the musical Hamilton on Disney Plus because they made American History fun.

Release date: 4/22/24

#netgalley #netgalleyarc #bookspinbingo

1. My mom is on a cruise this week so I have the house to myself and I‘m watching the dog. It‘s okay because I like being by myself. I‘m going to take my dog for a walk every day, watch a livestream tomorrow afternoon that I registered for, watch The Masked Singer on Wednesday night and read.

2. This picture that I‘m showing here is from my bedroom window today.

3. I live in TX,USA. It‘s cloudy and cool.

4. Tagged

#motivationalmonday

I read some more of this book tonight and I started coloring a new picture. I‘m using my Stylus Pen that I bought recently. I like it. I‘m having this book being read to me using Netgalley‘s Read Aloud feature. It‘s a robotic voice reading the book but it‘s great for nonfiction books. I was going to DNF this book but it‘s gotten good now. It‘s a nonfiction book but it‘s written like fiction.

#litsycrafters

I started this book. I‘m not sure if I‘m going to like this book or not because I didn‘t like History class when I was in school. I thought it was boring. I still think American History is boring. This book is written like a fictional story. It doesn‘t seem like nonfiction. I‘m 60 pages into this but I don‘t feel invested yet. I‘m feeling bored. I‘m going to keep reading this but if it doesn‘t get better then I‘m going to stop reading.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick (on my wish list for a few years)
📖 Another Brick in the Wall: The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song by Cliff Jones (read this 25 years ago!)
📖 Atheism (20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism) by Étienne Borne

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

Yep this appears to be part of his character

One of those books where you shake your head and think “this really happened?”