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Non-fiction books read in the first half of 2024

Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Entrepreneurial State, by Mariana Mazzucato

The Myth of Persecution, by Candida Moss

The Scythian Empire, by Christopher I. Beckwith

Sensational, by Kim Todd

Survival of the Friendliest, by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods

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Angela Basset, Naomi Campbell, Teyana Taylor, Idris Elba, Tiwa Savage, Amanda Gorman and Margot Lee Shetterly for 2024 Pirelli Calendar

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Amanda Gorman, Amoako Boafa, Angela Bassett, Idris Elba, Jeymes Samuel, King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Marcel Desailly, Margot Lee Shetterly, Naomi Campbell, Prince Gyasi, Teyana Taylor, Tiwa Savage & Young Prince | Pirelli Calendar 2024 | Prince Gyasi | December 2023

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*Hidden Figures (2017, by Theodore Melfi)

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Book Review(Book Club) Hidden Figures By Margot Lee Shetterly

Post by: Jessica Book Club Book Title: Hidden Figures By: Margot Lee Shetterly Cover: The cover is fine. I don’t love it, don’t hate it. It’s a bit plain with just the photo on it. I think the photo could’ve been bigger and the colors a bit more interesting. That said, I hate that there is a movie cover! This book is nothing like the movie and should not be advertised as such. It’s a book and…

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Book Review(Book Club) Hidden Figures By Margot Lee Shetterly

Post by: Jessica Book Club Book Title: Hidden Figures By: Margot Lee Shetterly Cover: The cover is fine. I don’t love it, don’t hate it. It’s a bit plain with just the photo on it. I think the photo could’ve been bigger and the colors a bit more interesting. That said, I hate that there is a movie cover! This book is nothing like the movie and should not be advertised as such. It’s a book and…

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Black history month

book reviews

7 of 29

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Hidden Figures

In honour of Black History Month, I'm starting to write book reviews about some of the nonfiction I'm reading

Note: As part of Black History Month, I’m trying something new: writing a book review on a new nonfiction fave. As many book reviews as I’ve written and posted, as many nonfiction books as I read, it’s not a genre I feel particularly comfortable with writing reviews for, but I thought I’d give it a whirl since I’m thinking about including more nonfiction content on my blogs other than the…

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Hidden Figures (2016)

My rating: 7/10

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December 2023 wrapup

According to thestorygraph, December was my worst month in terms of ratings.... oops. It might be because I didn't pick them all - I'm doing a project at work where my students can read whatever they want and I'll read it too and talk about it with them, and our reading tastes just don't align super well.... My favorite reads in December where definitely ones I picked myself!

not pictured: King of Wrath by Ana Huang

favorites of the month: Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson, The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching

nonfiction of the month (3): Foxes Unearthed by Lucy Jones, The Madman's Gallery by Edward Brooke-Hitching, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

classics (1): Orlando by Virginia Woolf

poetry (1): Von drauß' vom Walde komm ich her... Die schönesten Weihnachtsgedichte' edited Mareike von Landsberg

graphic novel (0): I just noticed that I didn't read a graphic novel this month, oops....

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Hermione Granger: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by J.K. Rowling

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Book Thief by Markus Susak

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Anne Of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

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💜 Books for Women's Day 2024 💜

🦇 Welcome to March, my beloved bookish bats. It's Women's History Month AND Women's Day! To celebrate, here are a few books that highlight powerful, courageous women -- both throughout history and across our favorite fictional realms. These women have contributed to our history, shaping contemporary society with bold, outspoken, badass moves. Let's celebrate and champion these voices by adding more female-focused stories to our TBRs!

❓QOTD Who is your favorite female fictional character AND real-life heroine?

❤️ Fiction ❤️ 💜 The Power - Naomi Alderman 💜 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 💜 The Vibrant Years - Sonali Dev 💜 Red Clocks - Leni Zumas 💜 Conjure Women - Afia Atakora 💜 City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert 💜 A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum 💜 Of Women and Salt - Gabriela Garcia 💜 Circe - Madeline Miller 💜 Song of a Captive Bird - Jasmin Darznik 💜 The Women - Kristin Hannah 💜 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 💜 The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison 💜 Women Talking - Miriam Toews 💜 Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly 💜 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

💜 Young/New Adult 💜 ❤️ Loveboat Reunion - Abigail Hing Wen ❤️ Realm Breaker - Victoria Aveyard ❤️ Only a Monster - Vanessa Len ❤️ This Woven Kingdom - Tahereh Mafi ❤️ Serpent & Dove - Shelby Mahurin ❤️ I’ll Be The One - Lyla Lee ❤️ Squad - Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrated by Lisa Sterle ❤️ These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong ❤️ The Box in the Woods - Maureen Johnson ❤️ The Wrath & the Dawn - Renee Ahdieh ❤️ You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson ❤️ A Sky Beyond the Storm - Sabaa Tahir ❤️ Nimona - N.D. Stevenson ❤️ Legendborn - Tracy Deonn ❤️ Blood Scion - Deborah Falaye ❤️ Not Here to Be Liked - Michelle Quach

❤️ Queer ❤️ 💜 Imogen, Obviously - Becky Albertalli 💜 The Fiancée Farce - Alexandria Bellefleur 💜 One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston 💜 The Henna Wars - Adiba Jaigirdar 💜 Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan 💜 Delilah Green Doesn't Care - Ashley Herring Blake 💜 A Guide to the Dark - Meriam Metoui 💜 She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan 💜 Written in the Stars- Alexandria Bellefleur 💜 Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 💜 Gearbreakers - Zoe Hana Mikuta 💜 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat 💜 Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker 💜 The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 💜 She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick 💜 The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri

💜 Non-Fiction 💜 ❤️ The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore ❤️ Girlhood - Melissa Febos ❤️ Our Bodies, Their Battlefields - Christina Lamb ❤️ The Radium Girls - Kate Moore ❤️ Twice As Hard - Jasmine Brown ❤️ Women of Myth - Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy ❤️ Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls - Lisa Robinson ❤️ Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship - Kayleen Schaefer ❤️ The Book of Gutsy Women - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton ❤️ The Underground Girls of Kabul - Jenny Nordberg ❤️ Feminism Is for Everybody - Bell Hooks ❤️ Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez ❤️ The Women of NOW - Katherine Turk ❤️ Eve - Cat Bohannon ❤️ We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ❤️ Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay

❤️ Memoirs ❤️ 💜 Mom & Me & Mom - Maya Angelou 💜 Crazy Brave - Joy Harjo 💜 Reading Lolita in Theran - Azar Nafisi 💜 I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy 💜 Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner 💜 The Soul of a Woman - Isabel Allende 💜 See No Stranger - Valarie Kaur 💜 They Call Me a Lioness - Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri 💜 Becoming - Michelle Obama 💜 Bossypants - Tina Fey 💜 My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg 💜 I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai 💜 Finding Me - Viola Davis 💜 Return - Ghada Karmi 💜 Good for a Girl - Lauren Fleshman 💜 The Woman in Me - Britney Spears

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Amanda Gorman & Margot Lee Shetterly | Pirelli Calendar 2024 | Prince Gyasi & Alessandro Scott | December 2023

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Tag game

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Favourite colour: Blue

Currently reading: Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly

Last song: probably The Old Boy soundtrack because I have been trying to concentrate on work/writing

Last movie: my friends and I watched Puss in Boots: The Last Wish just so we could lust after Wagner Moura's voice and... no regrets, it's a great movie

Last series: probably The Last of Us (btw, @quincette is writing a JoeNicky fic inspired by you-know-which-episode and it's stunning)... oh, I also started to watch Narcos and it's fantastic

Sweet, savory, or spicy: Savory, always

Craving: "free" time... and a new laptop

Tea or coffee: Tea (just had a cuppa and I'm deciding if I should have another so soon)

Currently working on: my growing number of wips... while I flirt with new ideas

I tag: @pochiperpe90 @queen-of-badomens @snipergirl21 @sholeh675 @quincette @nolimepercipere @lisea18 @hoax1918 @sal-si-puedes @aivelin @seanchaidh7 @notablogtobefollowedunless @kadma32writes @azraeldoesnotdispute and anyone who would like to! 🥰

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Happy Black History Month!

Today is Feb. 1, which means for the US, it is the start of Black History Month.

I'm not going to pretend I know anything about what it's like to be Black in the US, but what I can do is give a brief summary of history.

About 250 years ago, the US became a country. Freedom was it's motto, but the majority of its population was forced to watch the freedom of the white man from afar.

Slaves were only counted as 3/5 of a person, and this was considered a courtesy because the South wanted more votes in Congress, but the North fought even the 3/5 Compromise since this would give the South more power in legislation.

It wasn't for another several decades that American slaves were finally given a chance at freedom, but first the then Republican Party had to fight the Mason-Dixon line, the 1850 Compromise, voter fraud, and so many other kinds of push back that the South receded and started a war before slaves were finally free.

But that's not the end of story. African-Americans were still exploited, lynched, harassed, and discriminated against, problems that are still not fixed.

After the Civil War came sharecropping, basically another form of slavery.

Next was Jim Crow.

Then Plessy v. Ferguson.

There were victories. The 13th Amendment officially outlawed slavery; the 14th gave all male citizens equal rights; and the 15th established franchise for all male citizens.

But they weren't perfect. Jim Crow laws did their best to keep Black people from voting, and Plessy v. Ferguson made sure segregation allowed equal rights to die.

Future laws would help, but nothing could stop racism from groups like the KKK from killing Black people practically unencumbered.

Thankfully, the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr., would ignite a fire in Black Americans and sympathizers that would result in several successful fights against segregation and the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Things would continue to improve as more and more people realized that racism is horrible and disgusting, but white privilege remains a problem to this day, most recently in George Floyd's death and several others like it.

Everyday, thousands of people turn to groups like BLM to fight for equal rights, and everyday, progress is made.

But equality will never be reached unless everyone works for it.

The road to equality is a marathon, and we're not finished.

Here are some resources for anyone who wants to learn about Black History:

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Here are some books and other media that highlight Black History and the Black Experience:

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas as well as her other books (book)

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe as well as his other books (book)

To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchmen by Harper Lee (book)

All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds (book)

42 starring Chadwick Boseman (film)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson as well as her other books (book)

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (book and movie)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. (link)

This is a list of 50 books about race or feature Black protagonists

Here are some more obscure people who were active in Civil Rights:

Jesse Owens

Dred Scott

Bayard Rustin

Toussaint Louverture

Here's a list of 24

Thank you for reading, and please go advocate!