transtwill's Reviews (554)

City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle

Bill Minutaglio

3.5

emotional informative tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Racism

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

Peter Robison

4.0

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

Fires of Autumn: The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster of 1918

Francis M. Carroll

3.25

informative medium-paced

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

DID NOT FINISH: 37%

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book very much shows its age and much of the material does not hold up well in the internet era

Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America

Yasmine Ali

4.0

emotional informative tense medium-paced

The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation

Dick J. Reavis

3.5

challenging informative tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

Underground Fire: Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage in the Cherry Mine Disaster

Sally M. Walker

3.75

informative reflective fast-paced

Flesh and Blood So Cheap

Albert Marrin

3.5

informative fast-paced

What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

Kim Cross

3.75

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

Blizzard of Glass

Sally M. Walker

3.75

informative fast-paced