Welcome to the Monthly Spotlight for the
2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge!
Each month I’m highlighting some of the reviews shared for the challenge in the linky
Don’t forget to link each book you read as you read during the year!
I encourage you to support all participants who have shared what they are reading for the challenge. Give them a like, leave them a comment, share their posts on Facebook, twitter, or instagram #ReadNonFicChal
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IN JUNE…
[PUBLISHED IN 2022]
Carol at Carol’s Notebook says of The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman, “If it was part of the culture during the ’90s, it’s in here….It was a fun combination of a nostalgic walk down memory lane and reassessing how I viewed things then and now.”
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[MEDICAL MEMOIR]
Of My Lobotomy: A Memoir by Howard Dully, (written with Charles Fleming) who was 12 years old when he was subject to an ‘ice-pick’ lobotomy, Stranger Than Fiction writes, “The book is difficult to read at times because of the content, but it also reveals the resiliency and courage that the human spirit is capable of.”
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[CELEBRITY]
Helen at Helen’s Book Blog features Disney animator, Floyd Norman in a post that includes a review of the documentary – Floyd Norman: An Animated Life, Floyd Norman’s autobiography- An Animated Life: A Lifetime of tips, tricks, techniques and stories from an animation Legend, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse in the Barracuda Triangle.
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“This is a brilliant memoir. Brilliant. That’s a word Americans rarely use in this way. But it’s the best word for it.”, begins Hopewell’s Public Library of Life’s review of Sugar & Slate by Charlotte Williams, a memoir of a woman torn between her Welsh and Guyanan heritage.
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Carla Loves To Read combines reviews of Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne, Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life by Winifred Conkling and Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, Simon Prebble (Narrator) in a single post.
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What will you be reading in July?
Need some inspiration? Check out these posts
SOCIAL HISTORY and POPULAR SCIENCE
LINKED TO A PODCAST and WILD ANIMALS
ECONOMICS and PUBLISHED IN 2022
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2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge Monthly Spotlight #ReadNonFicChal Check out some of the latest #Nonfiction book reviews shared last month #readingchallenge at Book’d Out