My Thoughts: I have been interested in learning more about Vincent and Theo Van Gogh’s relationship as brothers for years. Early in college I had an art history professor who talked a little bit about it and I thought it was something I might want to know more about. However, this interest got lost in the… Read more »
My Thoughts: Steve Sheinkin has become my favorite author of nonfiction young adult titles (Check out my thoughts on The Port Chicago 50 and Most Dangerous.) I was thrilled when I saw he had a book coming out focused on Jim Thorpe. We have a novel about him in the library that is a blend of fiction and… Read more »
Last year I made an effort to read more nonfiction titles. That’s carried over into this year as well. There are just so many that I want to read! Radioactive: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking discoveries led to… Read more »
My Thoughts: Books like Most Dangerous are exactly what I had in mind when I set a goal to read one nonfiction book a month. Not only did I get to read an excellent and well written book, I also learned more about a topic that I had a woefully inadequate knowledge of. I first heard Steve Sheinkin’s… Read more »
My Thoughts: I was familiar with the term “Typhoid Mary” and knew a very basic bit about where it came from. This book filled in a huge knowledge gap for me. And the best part? It did it in a quick and interesting story! Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America has multiple… Read more »
My Thoughts: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia was one of the books that made me decide to read a nonfiction book each month. I’d been meaning to read it but just never seemed to get around to it. If I put it on my monthly TBR I knew I’d be much… Read more »
My Thoughts: Rick Atkinson’s other YA nonfiction – D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 is really popular in my middle school library. When I saw this one offered for review I knew I wanted to give it a try. It fits my “read one nonfiction book a month” goal and now I can talk about it with… Read more »
My Thoughts: After reading Kids on Strike! I decided to finally pick up a book I’ve been meaning to read since I first head about it: Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy. I remember hearing about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in high school and being horrified. For some reason it just stuck… Read more »
