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📖 The Exvangelicals (⭐⭐⭐⭐) #Religion #Nonfiction #Memoir

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals.
Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her...

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Two daily #SmallPress #books:
Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland by James Robenalt (Chicago Review Press @chireviewpress.bsky.social) chicagoreviewpress.com/ballots
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black: The Lost Memoir of Britain’s First Black Olympic Medal Winner—and the America He Discovered by Harry Edward (Yale UP) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030
#reading #memoir #nonfiction #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth

As a child, American Grammy-nominee Neko Case thought she was Canadian. She still feels close to the country
Neko Case's childhood and path to becoming a Grammy-nominated musician are detailed in her new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, available now.
#music #memoir #childhood #News #Canada #BritishColumbia
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

As a child, American Grammy-nominee Neko Case thought she was Canadian. She still feels close to the country
Neko Case's childhood and path to becoming a Grammy-nominated musician are detailed in her new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, available now.
#music #memoir #childhood #News #Canada #BritishColumbia
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

📗 "Goupil ou face" by Lou Lubie

The English translation is called 'A Fox in My Brain'. It's a graphic memoir about living with cyclothymia (bipolar III disorder).

Although it's labeled as a memoir, that aspect really takes a backseat. It's more of a general explainer about cyclothymia. I thought it was okay, good but not great. I think that's mainly because I don't appear to be the target audience. This might be a great book for anyone just diagnosed, seeking to get diagnosed, or for anyone who has someone in their life struggling with this and you wish to understand them better.

Like all Lou Lubie books up till now, the art was great. I love how her style is a little different in every book. Here black/grey/white are perfectly contrasted with orange/peach/red to show the highs and lows. The various personified forms of the different types of bipolar disorder were (oddly enough?) very cute (until they became threatening /hide ).