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3/5 ⭐️ Light pick for this #FoodandLit Korea book. Love triangle set during the Korean war and the years following. Very sad though.

Little Free Library find 😁

I decided to mix it up and use a different template for my NONFICTION reads in #2024ReadingBrackets because why not? 🤷🏻‍♀️ February‘s pick was this detailed biography of baseball legend Ted Williams. And I don‘t have to pick between it and January‘s book by Jamie Raskin, which was also great. Winning! 🏆

Completed my “Chunkster” read for #ChunksterChallenge2024. This biography of Red Sox great Ted Williams is well-written and very readable. A lot about baseball, yes —but also much about Ted‘s childhood, his troubled personal life —and all the gory details you can handle about his head being frozen for posterity. 😳 Definitely recommend, @GinaKButler !

#Nonfiction2024

I listened to this book on Libby. Toni Morrison‘s voice is so smooth and really soothing. The story is about Frank, a veteran who fought in Korea who suffers from PTSD. He heads to GA to help his sister. This story is short but important for people to understand how difficult life was for so many.

Where are my fellow journalist peeps? I‘m reading a bio of Ted Williams and came across this paragraph, which made me laugh out loud. My husband wanted to know what was so funny, so I read it to him. He still didn‘t get it. I told him, trust me — if you are a journalist, it‘s funny!! 😄

#12BooksOf2023

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On to the NONFICTION winner of #ReadingBrackets2023! This quarter belonged entirely to Hampton Sides—he battled himself the whole way. December‘s pick about the Marines at the Chosin Reservoir was excellent. It moved on against “Ghost Soldiers” to face “Hellhound on His Trail.” For me, it was an easy pick: “Hellhound,” a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, sweeps the board and emerges as victor. In fact, it‘s my favorite book of the entire year!

Finally settled on my “official” book for #ChunksterChallenge2024 — a biography of baseball legend Ted Williams, written by newspaper legend Ben Bradlee, Jr. At 864 pages, it‘s a bit shorter than my usual annual chunkster picks. But this year I‘m taking my cues from @GinaKButler and @Kelly326 and aiming to read several large chunks throughout the year. Viva la chunkster! 🙂

Three books in a row by Hampton Sides — three home runs. This book is about the siege at Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War, when the First Marine Division was trapped, outnumbered and surrounded by 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers. How the Marines held on and fought their way out is considered one of the most heroic operations in American military history. It‘s a story of what humans are capable of in extreme circumstances. Highly recommend.