I really enjoyed Master Slave Husband Wife. When I was a teacher I showed students a movie based on their lives. It didn’t talk about what happened to them after they were able to escape north, so I was glad to find that out here. Yes, to me it was an adventure book.
What a great list. Thank you. Many of these are on my list. I have not read a nonfiction in many years. I’m 78 and they were not screening for reading issues when I was in school. I have since learned that I have a form of dyslexia. So this will be the year to try a nonfiction. Several on your list caught my attention. Well, all of them but we will see which I can read. Thank you again. Loved your fiction list as well. The Women should arrive today or tomorrow. Be safe. This is a crazy world.
Fantastic books and recommendations. I've read "Master Slave" and "Fever in the Heartland", I also loved "Dearborn" which is fiction but packed with wonderful stories.
This is fantastic! I also loved How to Say Babylon and Know My Name. They end up being some of my favorite memoirs of all time. I also really thought King was well done. I am adding The Rooster House to my TBR right now.
Great list! I want to read Eve, Better Living Through Birding and Master Slave Husband Wife. You speak no lies here…and yes, some people are drastically affected by disinformation.
Hello from Canada. Subscribed after my first view of your channel because of your world view. I too have cancelled cable and I’m vetting everything I support through views and/or purchases (e.g., I’m a knitter who has been actively and intentionally purchasing the patterns of those content creators who speak out). I will continue to choose to support creators who align with my views and I commend you for expressing yourself when we live in a world in which it’s dangerous to do so. 👏🏻
Another great list - I have Fever in the Heartland on my TBR and waiting on Attack from Within from my library. My top non fiction would have to be Anxious Generation. It’s a well researched look at the reasons/causes for the state of poor mental health of our youth.
Fever in the Heartland was one of the most jaw-dropping books I've read in a long time. If dates/names were not identified, it sounded like today's news. The speeches and rhetoric haven't changed one bit!
This was my favorite NF of 2024 as well. Oh man, was it a hard read but excellent. I can't believe that it make it to the next round. A shame. Currently reading James and wow, the hype around this one wasn't wong. Another NF I enjoyed was Mozart's Starling. I listened to this one as an audiobook and it was good. A bit dry in spots, imo, but overall quite interesting.
Great list! I have several of these on my want to read list. I will probably take me a while to get to them, but one day 😊 I only read 2 nonfiction books all year 2024 so it feels a bit silly picking a favorite ^^ Although I guess I did, because one of them is in my top ten 😅 Which will come out today, btw, had to shuffle my schedule a bit.
My two favourites were1) 'Metaphysical Animals' by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman about the philosophy of: Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley and their time at Oxford. 2) 'Cold Kitchen' by Caroline Eden travel/food writer.
I hope you like it! I subscribed to The Contrarian on the first day I could and Barb McQuade writes for them as well. Just today, she came out with another article about disinformation in terms of Zuckerberg/Meta.
So glad you said it no difference between white hoods and red caps! I am so disappointed in our last election. I won’t watch news anymore. I am just reading and if I blow up so be it! Love that I found your channel!
I recently became a subscriber, but unfortunately I have now unsubscribed to your channel. I did not appreciate your comment on comparing the KKK to those of us who support our country and who you have made an obvious dig towards those of us who want to make America great again. I am a person of Asian descent, a child of someone who fought in the Vietnam War, a wife of a man who served our wonderful country for 26 years via the US Navy, I have family ALL over the world many of them who have immigrated LEGALLY to the US and have also served/are serving this country through various military branches or through law enforcement. Why? Because we love our country and the freedoms it afford the American people. Though you are entitled to your opinion, thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears of those who serve and protect the Constitution that allows you to have that freedom and that right, it is not right to transfer the disgusting and abhorrent ideologies of a group of people (in this case, the KKK) and compare them to those of us who desire to make America great and address those areas in our country that need some attention. You said you read the book on disinformation and that you supposedly learned a lot. You mentioned that you don’t watch the popular media and that you do your own research. This is a start. Why don’t you take an extra step to try to understand the people you so openly lump in with the KKK and get to know them. I think you would be surprised on what you will learn on your own, not just be influenced by what a book tells you about information (which is another form of disinformation/misinformation). Ask yourself how you came to these thoughts of KKK vs. MAGA and who have you limited your interaction with over the past eight years. Have you always become triggered when someone does not share the same party? Did you ever hold the rule of “agree to disagree” and still consider yourselves friends at the end of the day despite your differences in thought? I hope in the future you will be more thoughtful and careful in your use of words. Sadly though, I will not be able to witness that if it happens as I, a person who is an Asian American female, who supports our country, voted for Trump (all three times), who loves all people despite, race, creed, sexual orientation, gender, age, and most of all, I am a follower of Christ. Therefore, I pray that you and your family will be blessed in 2025. May God bless you.
All of your reasons for unsubscribing are EXACTLY my reasons for subscribing. It baffles me me as to why people cannot see Trump’s racism. History will not be kind to him or his cult following.
The BTP is always great for adding some surprise favorites to my reading year.
Great video, Melinda!! I added every one of these to my tbr!!
I really enjoyed Master Slave Husband Wife. When I was a teacher I showed students a movie based on their lives. It didn’t talk about what happened to them after they were able to escape north, so I was glad to find that out here. Yes, to me it was an adventure book.
There was a movie about the Crafts? I had never heard about them before I read this book!
What a great list. Thank you. Many of these are on my list. I have not read a nonfiction in many years. I’m 78 and they were not screening for reading issues when I was in school. I have since learned that I have a form of dyslexia. So this will be the year to try a nonfiction. Several on your list caught my attention. Well, all of them but we will see which I can read. Thank you again. Loved your fiction list as well. The Women should arrive today or tomorrow. Be safe. This is a crazy world.
So many great recs here! 👏🏽👏🏽
I love these end of year lists. loved the variety on yours. "Disinformation has worked": how true, how sad.
Oh wow, interesting personal background to King's legacy, Melinda. 🤔
I love such a well curated list of nonfiction! And getting a golden girls reference! I love it! I added all of these to my Libby list.
Fantastic books and recommendations. I've read "Master Slave" and "Fever in the Heartland",
I also loved "Dearborn" which is fiction but packed with wonderful stories.
Master Slave Husband Wife was so suspenseful! I thought it was an interesting way to write a nonfiction, for sure.
Great list!! They all looked interesting.
This is fantastic! I also loved How to Say Babylon and Know My Name. They end up being some of my favorite memoirs of all time. I also really thought King was well done. I am adding The Rooster House to my TBR right now.
Master Slave Husband Wife and How to Say Babylon are both on my wish list. Know my Name was in my top books last year. So well written. 😊💙
Great list! I want to read Eve, Better Living Through Birding and Master Slave Husband Wife. You speak no lies here…and yes, some people are drastically affected by disinformation.
Hello from Canada. Subscribed after my first view of your channel because of your world view. I too have cancelled cable and I’m vetting everything I support through views and/or purchases (e.g., I’m a knitter who has been actively and intentionally purchasing the patterns of those content creators who speak out). I will continue to choose to support creators who align with my views and I commend you for expressing yourself when we live in a world in which it’s dangerous to do so. 👏🏻
Eve was one of my favourites too. It is an opinion piece based on science rather than a pure scientific book and I think that's fine.
Another great list - I have Fever in the Heartland on my TBR and waiting on Attack from Within from my library. My top non fiction would have to be Anxious Generation. It’s a well researched look at the reasons/causes for the state of poor mental health of our youth.
I looked up the origination of gird our loins. It’s perfect. Let’s keep saying it!
Fever in the Heartland was one of the most jaw-dropping books I've read in a long time. If dates/names were not identified, it sounded like today's news. The speeches and rhetoric haven't changed one bit!
This was my favorite NF of 2024 as well. Oh man, was it a hard read but excellent. I can't believe that it make it to the next round. A shame. Currently reading James and wow, the hype around this one wasn't wong. Another NF I enjoyed was Mozart's Starling. I listened to this one as an audiobook and it was good. A bit dry in spots, imo, but overall quite interesting.
A lot of these are on various lists for later. I don't know if I have the Eve book on my Q1 Historathon list. I'll add it.
Great list! I have several of these on my want to read list. I will probably take me a while to get to them, but one day 😊 I only read 2 nonfiction books all year 2024 so it feels a bit silly picking a favorite ^^ Although I guess I did, because one of them is in my top ten 😅 Which will come out today, btw, had to shuffle my schedule a bit.
My two favourites were1) 'Metaphysical Animals' by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman about the philosophy of: Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley and their time at Oxford. 2) 'Cold Kitchen' by Caroline Eden travel/food writer.
I just checked out Attack from Within from the library! Maybe you're the one who put it on CLimathon? Oof, ya.
I hope you like it! I subscribed to The Contrarian on the first day I could and Barb McQuade writes for them as well. Just today, she came out with another article about disinformation in terms of Zuckerberg/Meta.
So glad you said it no difference between white hoods and red caps! I am so disappointed in our last election. I won’t watch news anymore. I am just reading and if I blow up so be it! Love that I found your channel!
What was the name of the Book tuber that passed away? Very sad to hear.
I recently became a subscriber, but unfortunately I have now unsubscribed to your channel. I did not appreciate your comment on comparing the KKK to those of us who support our country and who you have made an obvious dig towards those of us who want to make America great again. I am a person of Asian descent, a child of someone who fought in the Vietnam War, a wife of a man who served our wonderful country for 26 years via the US Navy, I have family ALL over the world many of them who have immigrated LEGALLY to the US and have also served/are serving this country through various military branches or through law enforcement. Why? Because we love our country and the freedoms it afford the American people. Though you are entitled to your opinion, thanks to the blood, sweat, and tears of those who serve and protect the Constitution that allows you to have that freedom and that right, it is not right to transfer the disgusting and abhorrent ideologies of a group of people (in this case, the KKK) and compare them to those of us who desire to make America great and address those areas in our country that need some attention. You said you read the book on disinformation and that you supposedly learned a lot. You mentioned that you don’t watch the popular media and that you do your own research. This is a start. Why don’t you take an extra step to try to understand the people you so openly lump in with the KKK and get to know them. I think you would be surprised on what you will learn on your own, not just be influenced by what a book tells you about information (which is another form of disinformation/misinformation). Ask yourself how you came to these thoughts of KKK vs. MAGA and who have you limited your interaction with over the past eight years. Have you always become triggered when someone does not share the same party? Did you ever hold the rule of “agree to disagree” and still consider yourselves friends at the end of the day despite your differences in thought? I hope in the future you will be more thoughtful and careful in your use of words. Sadly though, I will not be able to witness that if it happens as I, a person who is an Asian American female, who supports our country, voted for Trump (all three times), who loves all people despite, race, creed, sexual orientation, gender, age, and most of all, I am a follower of Christ. Therefore, I pray that you and your family will be blessed in 2025. May God bless you.
All of your reasons for unsubscribing are EXACTLY my reasons for subscribing. It baffles me me as to why people cannot see Trump’s racism. History will not be kind to him or his cult following.