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The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.
read intro for class
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure by Carolyn McCaskill, Randall Hogue, Ceil Lucas, Robert J. Bayley, Pamela Baldwin, Roxanne Dummet-King, Joseph Hill
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
read for school!
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
read ch 1 for class and loved it, but I just don’t have time to read the rest
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism
Holocaust denial
American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction by Susan Ware
emotional
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Read for class! Honestly not a fan. This book is really really fucking intent on positioning white women as the default. Women of any and all other races are treated as an afterthought, a deviation, an “other”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism
Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 by Lisa Tetrault
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Read for class!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism
Minor: Death
Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series) by J. Todd Moye
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
Read for class. It was taking way too long to read it all so thoroughly ended up skimming the rest of the book heavily and skipped a significant amount of pages.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa by David E. Murphy
Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
read ch 1 (as well as chapters 11 and 17) for class
Content Warnings
Graphic: War
The History of Everything by Victoria Evans
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century by Leonard Blusse
Did not finish book. Stopped at 57%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 57%.
Read for school, enjoyed it but not enough to spend the time to finish it for fun
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Violence
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Amazing, but very dense and hard to read. Definitely want to finish this someday.