What's the best non-fiction book you read this year? + 1 sentence plug

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Anonymous wrote:Good Morning, Monster

Stories of individuals’ healing process through trauma with the help of a therapist.

Oh, I loved that book! I learned so much!

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I only read one nonfiction last year: There is no place for us by Brian Goldstone. It followed a several families who were working and homeless in Atlanta. Highly recommend.

I just finished Careless People, and I’m glad she wrote it and glad I read it, but I found the author insufferable. Like lady, you worked there too!

I need to be better about reading nonfiction.

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The Running Ground, by Nicholas Thompson

The CEO of The Atlantic explores his difficult relationship with his father through their shared passion for running.

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Anonymous wrote:The Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
My life with the ravens at the tower of London.

The title is pretty self-explanatory. Christopher is a Beefeater who lives and works at the tower of London. The book has a little bit of British history, personal narrative, and a lot about ravens

I was in London in October and we saw the ravens. They are quite fascinating.

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Challenger by Adam Higginbotham. Especially since we just had the 40th anniversary of the disaster.

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Bad Company, by Megan Greenwell, about how private equity ruins life for people who just want to be responsible employees

Another "how greedy creeps ruin everything," like Careless People

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Anonymous wrote:Raising Hare. I now want to go live in a cottage in englad, rescue a hare, take a very wild/hands off approach, have the hare successfully leave and survive in the wild, but have the hare visit me regularly and know generations of hares.

This might be my very favorite post I’ve ever read on this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:Raising Hare. I now want to go live in a cottage in englad, rescue a hare, take a very wild/hands off approach, have the hare successfully leave and survive in the wild, but have the hare visit me regularly and know generations of hares.

LOVED this book.

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The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory. I learned so much about the deaf community. It was a terrific book.

https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Riverside-Football-Quest-Glory/dp/0385549873

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Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds.

By John Fugelsang

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Anonymous wrote:The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory. I learned so much about the deaf community. It was a terrific book.

https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Riverside-Football-Quest-Glory/dp/0385549873

Not book-related, but I just learned this yesterday from a Ghosts of DC email, and I thought it was cool: the “huddle” in football was invented by the college football team at Gallaudet. They didn’t want the other teams to see what plays they were signing to one another.

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Anonymous wrote:Good Morning, Monster

Stories of individuals’ healing process through trauma with the help of a therapist.

Also read this and quite liked it!

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I don’t read much nonfiction, but I was wowed by Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard. It’s about the election of James Garfield as President and his subsequent assassination. Not something I had any preexisting interest in, but the writing is so good and it’s so packed with interesting facts and characters that it’s an all-around great read. If anyone saw the miniseries that came out by year (Death by Lightning), it gave an idea of the story but the book did it better by far.

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Anonymous wrote:Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds.

By John Fugelsang

What a great title!

I’m wondering if anyone has read something between us, by a Hopkins anthropologist about th current divide in America. I keep meaning to put it into my cart.

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Jill Lepore's These Truths.