2025 is finally over and its time for a wrap up post for the 2025 Audiobook Challenge. This year was the year of audiobooks for me. I jumped into doing a lot of rereading through audiobooks this year and it was a fantastic choice. I also listened to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks. I started … More 2025 Audiobook Challenge Wrap Up
Before picking up this book, I had never heard of this incident and had no idea about all the controversy around what might have happened to these nine hikers. Eichar weaves together his journey to uncover the mystery of this incident with the hikers’ accounts to create a very interesting and captivating look at what … More Review: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
The Radium Girls discusses the lives, careers, trials, and death of the women who worked in factories painting watches, clocks, and other military dials with radium so they will illuminate. They were repeatedly told that radium wasn’t harmful, and taught to make their paint brushes into a point using their mouths. So when the women … More Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Myra Reed has spent the past year trying to find a way to free her sister’s soul from the demon Bathin. Unfortunately she is running out of time to rescue her soul and now Ordinary is dealing with portals from Hell popping up all over town. This is the first book from Myra’s POV and … More Review: Dime a Demon by Devon Monk
Blood is not something that I ever thought I would be interested in learning more about but Rose George really made this a fascinating topic. This book takes us through history by talking about the use of blood in medicine, like leeches and transfusions; to blood donation, menstruation, HIV/AIDs, hemophilia, vampirism, and quite a few … More Review: Nine Pints; A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George
This book was written in 1935, and is still so relevant today. War is a Racket is a scathing 43 minutes (or 50 pages) book about the lies politicians tell American taxpayers to justify going to war. Butler explains the corruption of war in very easy to follow language and finishes up by presenting three … More Review: War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler
This book is about the history of the dangers of the space program and how it led to disasters like the Challenger explosion in 1986, the Columbia disaster in 2003, and a few other disasters. While I knew of the Challenger disaster, it was before I was born and I never really looked into what … More Review: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Like in Ghostland, Colin Dickey challenges our views on conspiracies, UFOs, and cryptids by asking not if they exist, but why do people believe or don’t believe they do. He goes over the histories of conspiracies, UFOs, and cryptids and dives deep into why some people believe. This was an interesting book and really challenged … More Review: The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey
This was a fascinating look at why people are morbidly curious. It covers all different kinds of reasons why humans are drawn to horror, ghosts, murder, violent games, etc., and how it all stems from our evolutionary history. From the beginning, this book had me hooked on how it explains our fascination with morbidly curious … More Review: Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away by Coltan Scrivner
This was a very interesting look at the US space program and how it is dealing or trying to deal with the everyday issues we take for granted, such as eating, washing, and urinating. While I did find this a bit dense at times, I still learned a bunch about the space program, current and … More Review: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
Lindsey Fitzharris is back with another fantastic medical history book for kids. Dead Ends! is all about the many weird medical cures that were mostly useless and often harmful, but sometimes led to an occasional discovery that would lead to an actually helpful thing. This book covers things like bloodletting, beheadings, body snatching, CPR, brains, … More Review: Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal
The siege of the Davidian compound in Waco, Texas is an event that I have heard mentioned before, but I knew nothing about. From the very beginning, I was hooked on this cult and the events surrounding the siege against them. As someone who had never heard of The Branch Davidians, or even the Seventh-Day … More Review: Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias by Kevin Cook
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