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Melania Trump Fanfiction

Our American Friend by Anna Pitoniak

January 27, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

(“I felt helpless,” she said. “Here it is, I thought. This is what the bargain comes down to. This is your destiny, Lara. You will be a part of this, this tragedy. And there is nothing you can do about it. Because you chose this.”) Sofie, a former White House correspondent, is astonished to be chosen to be the biographer of the mysterious First Lady Lara Caine. As Lara tells her story, Sofie comes to realize that the secrets she’s spilling out could be ruinous […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Anna Pitoniak, ARC, historical fiction, NetGalley, paris, politics, popsugar, Russia

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Anna Pitoniak, ARC, historical fiction, NetGalley, paris, politics, popsugar, Russia ·
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Politics: It ain’t for old white dudes anymore

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes

January 24, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes, came out in summer of 2020. The book highlights the life of Harris from a child to the end of her run for president. I am not sure how updated the final results were, as I was reading a reader copy, but in the end, that is a little less important than how she became the first woman of color to hold her position. The fact that we follow a young girl named after a flower from […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: American History, Current Events, Kamala Harris, Laura Freeman, Nikki Grimes, politics, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: American History, Current Events, Kamala Harris, Laura Freeman, Nikki Grimes, politics, Social Themes ·
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She wanted to be a Doctor but became a Lawyer and changed a few things along the way.

Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX by Jen Bryant

January 19, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Did you know that Title IX was not just for athletes? It started out as not forty words that said that women had to be treated equally in all matters: education, and sports alike. Of course, that was only one thing Patsy Takemoto (later Patsy Mink) would do in her life. A young Patsy lived in Maui. She knew her family had come to this country for a better life and that meant (though she was not sure at the time) an education. At four-years-old […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: discrimination, Education, hawaii, Japan, Jen Bryant, Patsy Mink, Patsy Takemoto, politics, Social Themes, Toshiki Nakamura, United States - 20th Century

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: discrimination, Education, hawaii, Japan, Jen Bryant, Patsy Mink, Patsy Takemoto, politics, Social Themes, Toshiki Nakamura, United States - 20th Century ·
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“What seemed clear was this: in a town that refused to allow the government to protect it from bears, vigilantism seemed the only option. Just as the libertarians wanted, it was every man, woman, and bear for themselves.”

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

January 15, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

Mind-boggling that this is a real place, with real people (and real bears). How does one begin to describe a book like this? I don’t know. If it wasn’t so early in the year, I might be tempted to review amnesty out of it and just point you in the direction of the many great reviews that have already been written about it, including one by our very own andtheIToldYouSos. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling is a long form journalist who spent a lot of time in the […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, a libertarian walks into a bear, bear human conflict, bears, Libertarians, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, New Hampshire, non fiction, politics, the free town project

narfna's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, a libertarian walks into a bear, bear human conflict, bears, Libertarians, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, New Hampshire, non fiction, politics, the free town project ·
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Petticoat Government

Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane

January 9, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

‘I told him I was not a felon, and that I would not be treated as one. His answer was, that there were many women in Newgate who had been well off, and who were obliged to sleep on the floor: there have been two hundred at once sleeping on those mats. Two hundred did you say? Yes. Then more shame for you. Had I been one of them I would have excited a rebellion against you…’ The years between the advent of the French […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, ARC, feminism, Nan Sloane, NetGalley, politics

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, ARC, feminism, Nan Sloane, NetGalley, politics ·
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Roll Call

Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

January 2, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

First book I finished in 2022…and it might already be the best thing I’ve read. Pack it in, people. I was hoping sitting on it for a day would help me form a more coherent review but I think I’m going to need to process it more to get there. This is gonna be a bit of sentence salad. What I love about Robert Caro’s books is how unconventional they are. Caro has no interest in the typical biography, whether it’s a hagiography, a hack […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: #history, filibuster, Lyndon B. Johnson, Master of the Senate, politics, Robert Caro, senate

Jake's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: #history, filibuster, Lyndon B. Johnson, Master of the Senate, politics, Robert Caro, senate ·
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