Happy Sunday everyone! I hope everyone's been doing well this month. I've now completed 8 total tasks for Book Riot's 2025 Read Harder Challenge. The two tasks I completed in April required me to read a nonfiction book about nature or the environment and to read a book about immigration or refugees (originally I was hoping to complete the prompt to read literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled author. but the book I was planning on reading for it still hasn't come in from the hold I've had on it at my library). I selected The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change by Elizabeth Rusch and Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria by Rania Abouzeid respectively. Read on to see my mini reviews and my plans for next month:
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The Twenty-One: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government Over Climate Change by Elizabeth Rusch is a must read piece of YA Nonfiction. It does a great job of laying out the facts and all of the important elements of the title figures story. I also appreciated that there are plenty of photos to put faces to all the names. This is one of those books that makes me want to feel hopeful about the future, but that said it's been tough these last few months. Anyway, if you're looking for impressive YA Nonfiction, this is a good one to pick up.
My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph.
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Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria by Rania Abouzeid is an important journalistic piece of YA Nonfiction. There's quite a bit of detail in this book that I didn't know about at all going in. It can be a lot to keep track of but it's well worth the time to learn these stories.
My review is also on Goodreads and The StoryGraph.
Next Up For May:
Read a 2025 release by a BIPOC author.
My choice: Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan - This is going to be released on January 7th. I'm really excited to read this one given how much I loved The Celestial Kingdom series.
Read a book based solely on its setting.
My choice: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Moribito #1) by Nahoko Uehashi - This was recommended to me recently and I have to say this Japanese YA fantasy adventure sounds amazing.
Are you taking part in this challenge? Have you read any of these books? As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!
Both of these sound really good, maybe tough to read but still important. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming over, Tammy. I hope you enjoy if you decide to try them.
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