I can’t believe I am already hosting my third Nonfiction November! This week, I want to know what books really opened your mind this year. Here’s the prompt! Nonfiction November 2024 Mind Openers prompt One of the greatest things about reading nonfiction is the way it can open your eyes to the world around you—no […] The post Mind Openers: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 4 appeared first on She Seeks Nonfiction ..read more

This week in Nonfiction November, we are pairing books together! Here’s the prompt from Liz: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title (or whatever you want to pair up). Maybe it’s a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction […] The post Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 3 appeared first on She Seeks Nonfiction ..read more

Week 2’s prompt for Nonfiction November, Choosing Nonfiction, is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Our host, Frances of Volatile Rune, asks us: What are you looking for when you pick up a nonfiction book? Do you have a particular topic you’re attracted to? Do you have a particular writing style that works best? When […] The post Designing Nonfiction: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 2 appeared first on She Seeks Nonfiction ..read more

Democrats use Project 2025 to take attention away from their material support for genocide, so they don't get my vote. The post Why I will vote third party in the 2024 election appeared first on She Seeks Nonfiction ..read more

In Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, American journalist Siddharth Kara takes us into the Congo’s child-filled mines between 2018 and 2021—at least, as far as the Congo’s military will allow him. Kara encounters numerous obstacles in accessing mines to document and miners to interview. Government and mining company officials […] The post The Congo’s bloodstained blue gold: book review of Cobalt Red appeared first on She Seeks Nonfiction ..read more

A chill wind blows. For most, fall is about soft sweaters, delectable candles, and pumpkin treats. Here in the book blogging community, it certainly is about all of those things, but there is one most special event in the forecast every autumn. For us, the fall breeze brings Nonfiction November! Throughout the month of November, […] The post Are you ready for Nonfiction November 2024? appeared first on She Seeks Nonfiction ..read more

Book reviews have been my focus for a couple of years, but this year I haven’t had the time or energy to read, and when I do, I definitely don’t have the time or energy to write reviews. The books I’ve been reading are largely about Palestine, or socialism—both of which I’m new to and find politically dense and hard to read. (Most of what I read is usually new to me, because I can never stick with one topic for very long before I find another new and exciting hyperfixation. Such is life.) For example, I’ve actually read three books about Palestine beyond just Light in Gaza in 2024. Except for ..read more

Ijeoma Oluo was the first author that I ever read on race. I didn’t review So You Want To Talk About Race when I read it in June 2020, because I read it merely to absorb information. I reviewed Mediocre more harshly than I should have, only correcting it, well, now. But I really like Oluo. Something about her being the author that introduced me to social justice makes me feel a deeper connection to her work than others’. Be a Revolution was no exception. Ijeoma Oluo and Palestine Additionally, Oluo’s Instagram post on October 13th, 2023, was the first I saw that alerted me to the escalating ge ..read more

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze, is the hardest-hitting book I’ve read on Palestine so far. I wish I’d started with it, rather than Palestine: A Socialist Introduction and Except for Palestine. Unlike those, Light in Gaza didn’t wade through the political history of the region, which can be overwhelming for uninitiated readers like me. Instead, 15 authors each spend a chapter telling their own stories. How has the occupation impacted them? How have their families survived? What do they want readers around the world to take ..read more

I spend my waking days fighting against the Christian Nationalist movement that plagues the United States. Christian Nationalists weaponize the idea of religious freedom to justify stripping away the rights of Black, queer, disabled, and poor people, as well as women and anyone who is capable of pregnancy. Their attempt to overturn the 2020 election is the clearest indicator that they intend to put an end to our world-famous democracy. But what does democracy mean when your options are a 77-year-old billionaire who broadcasts his vitriol for everyone but himself, or an 81-year-old imperialist ..read more