2021 Nonfiction Reader Challenge Monthly Spotlight #11

Welcome to the Monthly Spotlight for the 2021 Nonfiction Reader Challenge!

Each month I’m highlighting some of the reviews shared for the challenge in the linky

Don’t forget to link each book you read as you read during the year!

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In November…

[PUBLISHED IN 2021]

“…it is clear that wherever Mary Roach shines her light there will be surprises, there will be new knowledge, and there will be smiles, lots and lots of smiles, covered with copious quantities of laughter.”, writes Will of Coot’s Reviews about Fuzz by Mary Roach

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[ESSAYS]

“I enjoyed following Biguenet’s reflections on silence and sound,“ shares Tracey @ Carpe Librium. Silence by John Biguenet, is, “…full of interesting observations …and I highly recommend it.”

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[PUBLISHED IN 2021]

Barbara of Stray Thoughts feels that Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands by Jen Wilkins is one she will revisit regularly. “Jen devotes a chapter to each of the ten commandments. She argues not for a letter-of-the-law merest obedience possible, but for an expansive obedience of the spirit of the law. She employs Jesus’s explanation that the law doesn’t cover just outward action, but our hearts.”,

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[DISEASE]

Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs bY Ina Park is , “an informative, interesting, and often witty examination of the history, science and stigma related to sexually transmitted Infections and sexual health.” Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out recommends it to, “…a range of audiences, from the idly curious to those working with, or raising, teens or young adults.”

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[PUBLISHED IN 2021]

Deb Nance at Reader Buzz has high praise for A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders, “As I read A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, I found I am taking a class on the Russian short story, a class on how to write, a class on close reading; a class on the meaning of life. I am in the hands of a master.”

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