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“What I say is that I am innocent… I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian…”

Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, & the End of the American Dream by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro

May 29, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Read Harder Challenge strikes again. Task 15 for this year was to read a YA non-fiction work, and that is an area of my to read list that is stunningly small. I thought I had a book picked out, but it turned out to not be YA (but, The Art and Life of HIlma af Klint was still an enjoyable read).  I went back to the Arlington, VA Public library list of books you might have missed in 2023 to produce some additional ideas […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Doomed, John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro, read harder challenge, red scare, Sacco and Vanzetti, YA nonfiction

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:19 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Doomed, John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro, read harder challenge, red scare, Sacco and Vanzetti, YA nonfiction ·
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“Because, my girl you are sacred, valuable, indispensable, and irreplaceable”

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors)

April 2, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I keep doing reading challenges for a couple reasons, but one of them is that it tends to point out areas that my reading habits need to expand. This year the Read Harder Challenge includes tasks for both YA Non-fiction and to read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author. I’ve already read one YA Non-fiction this year, but while I was hunting up titles I came across #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited by Lisa Charleyboy and […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: #NotYourPrincess, Anthology, faintingviolet, Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors), Native American, read harder challenge, read women, we need diverse books, womens voices, YA, YA nonfiction

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:25 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: #NotYourPrincess, Anthology, faintingviolet, Lisa Charleyboy, Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors), Native American, read harder challenge, read women, we need diverse books, womens voices, YA, YA nonfiction ·
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Live a Bold Life

Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes

February 29, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

  We’ve reached the first book of the year that I read expressly because it fit a Read Harder Challenge. Task number one is to read a YA non-fiction. I did not have any juvenile non-fiction on my 650 books deep to read list, so I had to go looking. Nellie Bly had recently come up at work and I realized I knew very little about the famous reporter beyond her time in Blackwell or her around the world trip so onto my library request […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Deborah Noyes, fatingviolet, juvenile non-fiction, nellie bly, read harder challenge, read women, Ten Days a Madwoman, YA nonfiction

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Deborah Noyes, fatingviolet, juvenile non-fiction, nellie bly, read harder challenge, read women, Ten Days a Madwoman, YA nonfiction ·
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