#NonFicNov 2021 week 4

Week 4: (November 22-26) – Stranger Than Fiction with Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks: This week we’re focusing on all the great nonfiction books that *almost* don’t seem real. A sports biography involving overcoming massive obstacles, a profile on a bizarre scam, a look into the natural wonders in our world—basically, if it makes your jaw drop, you can highlight it for this week’s topic.
My choice are:
- “…a profile on a bizarre scam/cover-up” about...
- The Maralinga British Nuclear Tests
Atomic Thunder by Elizabeth Tynan (2018)
- Between 1956 and 1963, the United Kingdom conducted
- seven nuclear tests at the Maralinga site in South Australia,
- The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities.
- It turned the land into a radioactive wasteland.
- In 1950 Australian PM Robert Menzies agreed to atomic tests
- …and left the public completely in the dark.
- It is the uncovering of the extensive secrecy around the British tests in Australia
- ….and many years after the British had departed, leaving an unholy mess behind.
- Elizabeth Tynan has brought together a vast array of detail in this book
- …that just made my jaw drop!
- #MustRead nonfiction
- REVIEW
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Book nr 2:
Adani: Following Its Dirty Footprint by Lindsay Simpson
- Another JAW-DROPPING non-fiction book
- that is SO relevant today thinking about COP26 and
- the dangers of climate change.
- Absolutely disgusting….what is happening in Australia!
- Adani’s license to mine 60 million tonnes of coal for 60 years
- threatens Australia’s precious ancient source of groundwater
- …in the Galillee Basin, a vast underground water reservoir,
- part of the Great Artesian Basin, occupying more than 20% of Australia.
Sad that your 2 choices are about terrible and deliberate degradation of our environment. Our governments are so focused on making money and allowing others to make money at any cost, and nothing seems to make them change.
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I find there are some terrific NF book writers in Australia!
Women wirters that don’t get enough “attention” …M. Wilkinson, L. Milligan, Zoe Holman.
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Our environmental track record is unbelievable, and they never learn just make things worse!
Thanks for sharing your recommendations
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Thanks for your comment…
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Adding Atomic Thunder to my TBR thanks to your excellent review!
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Thanks for your comment, I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!
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As an American I am not shocked at all that you had nuclear testing done without anyone’s knowledge but I am a bit shocked that it has happened to your country as well. And by Britain!
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….correction, Australia is not my country!
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Whoops! Thank you for the clarification. I’m not even sure why I thought that!
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