transtwill's Reviews (554)

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Serhii Plokhy

4.0

informative tense medium-paced

Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America's Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster

Al Roker

4.25

informative tense medium-paced

Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History

Todd Tucker

4.0

informative tense medium-paced

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

3.75

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900

William Hogeland, Al Roker

4.25

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Liat Ben-Moshe

2.25

challenging informative slow-paced

there is some irony that the author spends so much time discussing I/DD issues as they seem thoroughly incapable of explaining any topic in anything even approaching plain language. Even with a previous familiarity of the subject matter i found much of the book so excessively jargon heavy that trying to parse more than a small portion of it at a time would give me a migraine