Task #5: A book by a journalist or about journalism

[Jeni]

I plan to read Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies Michael Ausiello is one of my favorite Entertainment journalists and this is the story of his husband's illness and death.

[Amber]

Just finished Crossing the Horizon by Laurie Notaro. It took me a bit to get into it, but it got really, really good. Great historical fiction.

[Alexis]

I'm going to pick up Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City for this one.

It's written by a Toronto Star journalist and digs into the suicide epidemic in Indigenous communities in northern Ontario. It was also already on my bookshelf, so that's one less book I have to get off my TBR.

[Sherri]

I finished Behind the Beautiful Forevers:Life,Death,&Hope in a Mumbai Under City by Katherine Boo for this prompt. Also this was my last prompt. I finished the challenge.

[Jenny]

Are Naomi Klien and Arundhati Roy considered journalists? I'd have assumed they were but wikipedia calls them both just 'political author and activist' so I don't know now...

[Bonnie G.]

Jenny wrote: "Are Naomi Klien and Arundhati Roy considered journalists? I'd have assumed they were but wikipedia calls them both just 'political author and activist' so I don't know now..."

I would not consider either to be journalists, certainly neither is primarily (or secondarily) a journalist, but both have written the occasional article,so I guess you could say they are.

[John]

I went with "Any Ordinary Day" by Leigh Sales. Excellent and very moving.

[Megan]

I recently finished The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa and translated by Tara Chace. The author is a journalist and the book was about a journalist/journalism (and the assassination of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme).