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Non-Fiction — People With Interesting Lives

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

August 19, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Y’all, I read SO MUCH NON-FICTION. I really like books in the category of “interesting lives”, whether or not they’re celebrities or well-known in any way. Two of these books are biographies of very interesting people, and the third a memoir written by the man himself. (four stars) The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein This book was not at ALL what I expected, but I ended up liking it even more because of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Larry Loftis, ron stallworth, Sarah Krasnostein

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:126 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Larry Loftis, ron stallworth, Sarah Krasnostein ·
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“Success often lies not in what happens but in what you prevent from happening”

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

February 3, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

Ron Stallworth’s memoir, BlacKkKlansman, about his time as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, has received a lot of attention in the last year thanks to the Academy Award nominated Spike Lee film of the same name. I was waiting to write this review until I had watched the film and now I wish I hadn’t because I am so tempted to just compare the two. All I will say is the film is very entertaining and well acted but it takes a lot of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: BlacKkKlansman, ron stallworth

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:9 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: BlacKkKlansman, ron stallworth ·
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This, after all, was Switzerland, where everything works; Switzerland, where trains run like clocks, and clocks run like watches, and watches are synchronous with the pulse of the universe; Switzerland

August 15, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

La Place de la Corcorde Suisse – 3/5 Stars This is an odd little book. Over all, I liked it, but it’s limited in its scope and appeal. John McPhee has written a long profile (likely an extension of a long-form essay/reportage) on the Swiss Army. He begins with the same kinds of assumptions probably most non-Swiss people have about the Army, that there’s a kind of in born joke to the whole thing, but then goes from there. The most important thing to say […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: black klansman, john mcphee, la place de la concorde suisse, ron stallworth, the ivankiad, vladimir voinovich

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:306 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: black klansman, john mcphee, la place de la concorde suisse, ron stallworth, the ivankiad, vladimir voinovich ·
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