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I recently read American Dirt. It was very eye opening regarding the life of some migrants and the horror that they've faced. I found it to be inspiring, as well.
I'm now reading Prime Time by Jane Fonda. I read it 10 years ago and now that I'm 66 years old, I appreciate the content even more. Life is so much affected by one's attitude and this book helped me with mine.
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I agree, American Dirt was an excellent book. It was fiction but I am sure it relied heavily on real life experiences of people making the journey to the United States.
Generally, my genre of choice is historical fiction. I know more now about WW2 than I ever learned in school.
@artist01 Our library not only has a website but you can get ebooks on loan from them for free. I have done this a couple of times. When my daughter wanted to buy me a nook a few years ago I refused because I liked having a book in my hands but now I have learned to appreciate ebooks. I like that I can read in bed without supplemental lighting and if there are many characters and I want to check back on one of them it's easy to do a search and see the earlier occurrences of that character. I also do subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. For $10 a month you can borrow as many books as you want and keep them for as long as you want. For me, that's a small price to pay for all of those books. You do have to choose from their selection of books but I can almost always find some interesting ones.
I also read "No Ordinary Time" about FDR and Eleanor, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It was excellent. I did not like history when I was in school so had little recollection of what was taught. This was really enlightening and I will probably read some more presidential biographies. My daughter got me started on these and sent me the FDR book.
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American Dirt is an excellent book.