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Publication day!!
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#WhyPovertyPersists paperback now available wherever you get your #bookfix 📚
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Some books are simple and unassuming, yet leave a profound impact on those who read them. This is one of those books. The voices documented in this book insist on being heard! I am glad I read it!

The first hand experiences, emotions and struggles of ordinary people in Syria during and after Arab Uprising as voiced by them, and translated and documented by the author are not the stories of one nation and its people, but it’s a repeating history of many nations across the continents and it is why reading a book like this that keeps haunting us is important.

For more reviews of this book, please check out @thenonfictional and @wayywardfox .

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It’s Nonfiction November 🍁 which is the perfect time to spread the love and share some of my favorite nonfiction readers and creators.

These readers and creators make nonfiction feel relatable AND relevant, with thoughtful reviews, honest recommendations and real enthusiasm for this often overlooked genre.

Whether they’re sharing new releases, spotlighting backlist gems, or weighing in on the latest author drama, these accounts make reading nonfiction the cool thing to do.

Want more nonfiction in your feed? Start here:

@bookbunnyreads

@bookedbyvee_

@heyjudereads

@kdbwrites

@mrsmillardfillmorereads

@nogglization

@nonfictionchocolate

@nonfictionfervor

@nonfictionnook

@obsessivelybookishjojo

@paperboundjess

@rareopalreads

@readinginthe419

@samiam_reading

@shesalwayswithabook

@tabanno_tabs

@thenonfictional

@thesportslibrarian

@vintagegirlreads

Let’s keep the nonfiction fan club growing; they might hate me for spilling the secret, but tag your favorites in the comments and let’s build the ultimate nonfiction resource.

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#NonfictionReader #TheOCBookGirl #NonfictionBookParty #BookMail #NonfictionAuthors #NonfictionNovember #NonfictionReading #NewNonfiction
#NonfictionCommunity #ReadersSupportingReaders #NonfictionLovers #Bookstagram #SaturdayShoutOut

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Book #31 of 2024 ✅

How to Say Babylon moved me in ways I could never imagine was possible. Before I read this book, I knew very little about Rastafarian culture or traditions other than Bob Marley’s songs and a bit about him. The author, Safiya Sinclair being a poet herself, took me into a journey of her complex and difficult world through her beautiful writing that I enjoyed re-reading many chapters of the book right after I finished it.

As I always say, there are very few memoirs that stuck with me forever and How to Say Babylon falls into that category. This is one of my top 5 reads of 2024.

Thanks to @thenonfictional for motivating me not once but twice to pick it up and read.

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Book #24 of 2024 ✅

In the past decade, very few memoirs caught my attention and stood out as engrossing and powerful reads. A Knock at Midnight is one of them.

This happened to be my first read focusing on ‘war on drugs’ and ‘mass incarcerations’ and boy, it was soul crushing. The author did a wonderful job of weaving her excruciatingly painful personal experience of incarceration with stories of those she fought for as a criminal justice lawyer. They are not just stories but the lives of individuals who deserved a second chance at life. As an insider, the author has provided a lot of insights into America’s criminal justice system, the drawbacks and consequences due to a system of mandatory sentencing laws. I have to admit I am still in a state of shock after learning about it.

War on drugs is painfully targeting black and brown communities in US of A and the discrimination/racial profiling is costing lives of not an individual but their families and the entire community around them. This is an important and an inspiring read for everyone who would like to learn more about America’s criminal justice related to war on drugs and how it led to mass incarcerations.

Thanks to @thenonfictional for recommending it to me!

Please check the wonderful reviews of this book by @bookgoodfeelgood and @obsessivelybookishjojo

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Book haul stack 📚

I got myself into a book-buying binge recently and I’m trying to stop (help!).

These look amazing, though, thanks to recommendations from many of you.

✨ How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa.

✨ How to End a Love Story by Yulin Huang.

✨ One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath by Åsne Seierstad.

✨ Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange.

✨ The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

✨ Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World by Edward Humes.

✨ The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer.

✨ A Knock at Midnight by Brittany Barnett.

✨ A Fatal Inheritance by Lawrence Ingrassia.

Which one should I pick up first?

#nonfictionlover #bookhaul #bookstack
#books #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #readinglist #newreleases #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionbookstagram #nonfictionbookparty #ReadAsianAuthors2024 #20BooksByAsianAuthors Book haul

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Book #15 of 2024 ✅

One of us is an incredibly well written narrative non-fiction by Norwegian writer and war zone journalist, Åsne Seierstad. In this book, the author covered the details of the 2011 Norway massacre, what led to it, the background, purpose and the ulterior motives of the man who planned and executed the attack, stories and dreams of 3 victims (3 out of 77) who died in the attack and of one survivor, all while examining Norwegian politics and culture at that time. As much as it was fascinating, this book was harrowing.

Åsne Seierstad did exhaustive research on the perpetrator of the attack and conducted interviews with those affected thus bringing out the empathy towards the victims and the knowledge of perpetrator’s background and objectives to her readers. I liked how she wrote it dispassionately without putting in her opinions, analysis or perspective while writing about the perpetrator’s motives and planning leading up to the attack. Just the facts! It’s very hard to strike that balance when writing such a detailed account of home-grown terrorism, its depth and its consequences. It made me cry at times. It also made me angry at times as I could relate it to some of the situations unfolding in the US currently.

I consider One of Us as one of the finest works of investigative journalism which is not an easy read but is a must-read non-fiction for those interested. Thanks to @thenonfictional and @ayls.reads for recommending One of Us to me. Do check their booksta accounts for additional reviews of this book.

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They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta.

A very challenging book to read for me, as Gupta unveils layers and layers of toxicity from the model minority myth that breaks down her family.

The book is written as a letter to her (estranged) mother, detailing Gupta’s evolution of relationships with each member of the immediate and extended family. At the core of it is her reckoning with the most dominant character of the book (and her life), her volatile father. As she comes of age though, as in many families’ stories, villains and victims get blurred. In a family, each can help and hurt another deeply.

There’s so much hurt in this book. And some aspects of it comes close to home for me, which makes it even harder to face. Volatile tempers, and the psychology that it creates within a family, are familiar to me, as well as the cultural need to be seen as ‘exceptional’ from the outside by burying anything negative inside.

Many themes intersect in Gupta’s life, the most stark being the views that the men in the family hold about women. One of the key development in the story is that of her brother, a bright star in the beginning of the book, but gradually changing for the worse. It gives me, as a mom of boys, a lot of food for thought on how this progression could happen.

Special thanks to @thenonfictional for highlighting this book. I picked this up from her reading list! Check out the review on @thenonfictional‘s page too.

Have you read this book?

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#books #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #ilovetoread #booksbooksbooks #reading #readinglist #nonfictionbooks #nonfiction #nonfictionbookparty #nonfictionbookstagram #nonfictionreads #nonfictionbookclub #bookstagrams They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta

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Book #12 of 2024 ✅

It was my first time reading one of Åsne Seierstad’s works. I learned about her and her book The Bookseller of Kabul through Bookstagram community, specifically from my conversations with @ayls.reads .

The author had spent around 4-5 months with a family in Afghanistan to learn more about the day-to-day life, hardships, celebrations, customs, traditions and culture through listening and observing their life and stories from 3 or 4 English speaking people of that family. The way she tried to connect their stories to the life of Afghanis after Taliban 1.0 (post 2001) is a style what I started to like until I felt some of that information is too generalized and may not be correct.

As an investigative journalism reader, I like her style of writing but as someone who have read books on Afghanistan, I agree with some and disagree with some of her assumptions or views expressed in the book regarding the culture and norms of the country in general.

Does the story of one family told by few people in that family represent the life of all Afghanis post-Taliban 1.0 is a question I’ve asked myself after @thenonfictional prompted me to see it from a critical angle, and my answer was ‘no’.

Anyway, it’s a decent read if you are open to take it a with a grain of salt.

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Blamestagram Book Stack—Easter haul pickups and Goodwill spending hack (Slides 6-10). But first…for the stack.

#blamestagrambookstack

I blame:

Dubliners - Probably @finebooks_garishphotos
Tolkien bio - Definitely @mindfully_reads
Blindness - Without apology Saramago goes to @byssheplease_
Island - Not ironically the best recos from @quinns.reading.recos
Everything is Spiritual - Everything Rob Bell I will forever blame on @nick.k.kipe
The New Jim Crow - Most likely @bookgoodfeelgood but let me check back in a sec. (Moments later—) Definitely @thenonfictional but thank you both for everything actually. 😆

Do you have a #blamestagrambookstack? Tag your buds if they made you do it. 💸

Now for the Goodwill spending hack. One could consider this as an alternative to spending…as you find your favorites (Slide 6), pull them to the end caps so that the next lucky person has a better chance at finding their next gem (or one that they don’t realize is about to find them). Save $12. And feel good too.

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Book mail from @viragopress !
Looking forward to learn a lot more about a topic I possible know very little about
Winner of the Saltire Scottish book of the year 2023, I’m sure this one will be a belter!

Have you read this one or do you have another non fiction book that you’re looking forward to?

Tagging a fellow non fiction fan.

#nonfiction #scottishbooks

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