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Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the …
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes …
I'm firmly into the end notes now, but this book is so incredibly well-researched I'll need to come back to finish those tomorrow!
I was doing so well with my quest to finish enough books to have fewer than 30 in progress, but I needed a bedtime book and I'd run out of good candidates in progress. Still trying to keep that number going down overall though!
This section having been written "midway through 2020" explains so much of the tonal shift.
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes …
Fascinating how much of these women's arguments for continuing to enslave people was easily passed off as economic anxiety in their time
Definitely not the happiest section of the book so far, but I appreciated the attempt to end the chapter on a happy note anyways.
This section got a little evangelical about the topic, but you certainly can't call them stingy with follow-up resources!
So cool how many now-renowned authors Mademoiselle was able to publish, and to host as guest editors!
This delightful bestiary by Belfast poet and printmaker Leslie Moore is a rich and colorful …
I originally picked this up because I was lucky enough to stumble across a literary festival where the author was signing, and it was a delight! The illustrations are gorgeous, and the poems range from light and fun to deeply thought-provoking.
It’s less a loose collective of writers and artists than it is a way to …
I've had to go pretty slowly through this, but I'm really excited to keep going.
Today I made it to the photos! Only about half of these animals look anything like what I expected, but it's especially wild that one of these photos was taken tens of thousands of feet below the surface!
We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it …
Heyyyyyyy, like 40% in this became about the wild things capitalism does to our perception of time! unexpected, but I'm into it
This delightful bestiary by Belfast poet and printmaker Leslie Moore is a rich and colorful …
Ugh, the whole thing has been excellent so far but the woodcuts and prints in the "Visitations" section are just too gorgeous.
Content warning Ocean fact! But it's casually mentioned in the book, so kind of a spoiler?
TIL: The Gulf of Mexico went completely dry once? It later refilled!
We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it …
This is a Hoopla Bonus Borrow this month, so I grabbed it for during laundry but now I'm hooked. What a fascinating look at weekly cycles so far!