My nonfiction people!!

What's a nonfiction book you strongly believe that everyone should read?

Bonus points if it made you cry/changed your life

For me it's Educated by Tara Westover and Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. (I have way more)

(Also I just wanna yoink some books because I love nonfiction)

I really don't think I want to read this series, not only is SJM super problematic, but the series being apart of the category of poorly written booktok books, it really doesn't make me pick up any of the books. I want to at least give then up to a thrift store, but should I? I have this lingering feeling to just give it a try, I mean I did spend money on the whole series so it would seem justified. But I need advice still! Should I give it to a person who would enjoy this more or keep it for myself? (Please don't say that cancel culture shouldn't be involved in books. It was my mistake not to research more into how bad SJM is when I bought this series 3 years ago. SJM should be held accountable for what she did and how wrongly she writes her stories. I want to uphold my morals and not give into the propaganda that she's the "queen of smutty fantasy.")

Update!! (I hope everyone who commented and gave advice sees this. 😿) I have came to a point where I will just read the first book and go from there. If I didn't enjoy the first one, I'm giving all the books to a thift store, and if I enjoy it, I'll keep the series and hope it gets better from there. I appreciate everyone who took the time to reply, and I'm glad I got actual responses and not a whole bunch of SJM glazers 😭. Thank you everyone, happy reading!!

This book is heavy, and just seems to get heavier and heavier each chapter.

Who else is studying other languages? Are you trying to read books in other languages? Do you have any tips or tricks?

Something I found really helpful recently is to get an audiobook in both my native language and target language. I listen to my native language first for 5 to 10 minutes, then listen to that part in the target language. I do a few sessions per day. I think this works best for an intermediate level, where you're not quite ready to consume the text entirely in the target language, but you have enough knowledge to pick out words and figure things out based on context and you understand a decent amount of text in the target language already.

I got this idea from bilingual books (which are another great resource for this level). It's like the audio version of bilingual books!