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Black Lives Matter in Norway too

Eg snakkar om det heile tida (I talk about it all the time) by Camara Lundestad Joof

Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg (Don't be afraid of people like me) by Sumeya Jirde Ali

July 25, 2021 by Malin Leave a Comment

Eg snakkar om det heile tida (I talk about it all the time) – 5 stars Official book description: I call a friend. Did the man in the bar call me a black b*tch when I didn’t want to give him my number? That time we had arranged to drink beer, but we drank tequila instead? She goes quiet. No. He called you the n-word. Thank you, I say. Thank you for remembering. I talk about it all the time is a witness statement, an […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: auto-biographical, Camara Lundestad Joof, CBR13, Eg snakkar om det heile tida, essays, Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg, Malin, non fiction, Norwegian, Nynorsk, prejudice, Racism, Sumeya Jirde Ali

Malin's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: auto-biographical, Camara Lundestad Joof, CBR13, Eg snakkar om det heile tida, essays, Ikkje ver redd sånne som meg, Malin, non fiction, Norwegian, Nynorsk, prejudice, Racism, Sumeya Jirde Ali ·
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“Home was wherever she planted herself…”

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

July 22, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr13bingo Home The Warmth of Other Suns, a National Book Award Winner, is a riveting study of the “Great Migration,” i.e., the movement of millions of Black Americans from the South to urban centers in the North and West during the period from 1915 to 1970. Isabel Wilkerson interviewed some 1200 participants in this migration in addition to scouring news sources, government studies, literature and more to provide this detailed and profoundly moving portrait of the generations of Black Americans who transformed not only their […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Great Migration, isabel wilkerson, non fiction, the warmth of other suns

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Great Migration, isabel wilkerson, non fiction, the warmth of other suns ·
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This is US History 101 not CRT

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, 2nd edition by Ida B. Wells

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells

The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, F.L. Barnett

July 10, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

CBR13bingo Uncannon Ida B. Wells is one of the most important and influential civil rights crusaders in US history, and yet I never learned her name in school. Born into slavery, orphaned as a teen, she became a world-renowned journalist who devoted her life to fighting US lynching laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, exposing the truth about the victims and perpetrators of these heinous acts. As she fought to educate the world about the plight of Blacks in the US, she […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, ElCicco, F.L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, Ida B. Wells, non fiction, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The Red Record

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, ElCicco, F.L. Barnett, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, Ida B. Wells, non fiction, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, The Red Record ·
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“How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.” #CBRBINGO – Shelfie

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

July 9, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 20/30 This is my favorite thing John Green has written. I loved it so much I let it start getting me behind in reviews again. I kind of hope he never goes back to writing fiction. (In fact, in the introduction to this book he expresses the sentiment that he might not! I don’t have the book with me right now to reference, but he talks briefly about his frustration with readers confusing him with his characters, and how […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: #history, #memoir, adapted from a podcast, cbr13bingo, essays, humor, john green, non fiction, Pop Culture, sports, the anthropocene reviewed

narfna's CBR13 Review No:100 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: #history, #memoir, adapted from a podcast, cbr13bingo, essays, humor, john green, non fiction, Pop Culture, sports, the anthropocene reviewed ·
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Maybe should have done the audiobook instead?

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford

July 9, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 18/30 Like other people have said in their reviews, this is an interesting story, a story that should be told, but unfortunately the book itself just isn’t very well written. It felt underdeveloped and amateurish, even with the co-author. (It also bothered me that the publishing company/editor couldn’t bother to include accents and tildes when the author used Spanish, but that’s not the author’s fault and didn’t really affect my rating; I just wanted to complain about it. Esta […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, deportation, Diane Guerrero, Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford, Immigration, in the country we love, Michelle Burford, my family divided, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2021, undocumented immigrants

narfna's CBR13 Review No:98 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, deportation, Diane Guerrero, Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford, Immigration, in the country we love, Michelle Burford, my family divided, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2021, undocumented immigrants ·
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Two Scottish bozos in a camper van.

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish

June 10, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I have not seen the STARZ TV show this book is the account of making, but this book (and the audiobook specifically) was a pretty good time. (STARZ insisted on naming the TV show Men in Kilts, but its original name was Clanlands, as this book makes pretty clear without actually stating it.) If you want something extremely goofy, spotted through with Scottish history, this is your book. The book is told by both Graham and Sam in alternating POV sections as they narrate the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, clanlands, graham mctavish, humor, narfna, non fiction, Outlander, road trip, sam heughan, Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish, scotland, scottish history, television

narfna's CBR13 Review No:60 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, clanlands, graham mctavish, humor, narfna, non fiction, Outlander, road trip, sam heughan, Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish, scotland, scottish history, television ·
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