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14% complete! Wyrm Theyfriend has read 11 of 75 books.
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes …
Do not skip the acknowledgements in this. the entire book is excellent, but the acknowledgements are so personal and heartwarming ❤️
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!
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life …
Content warning climate change
What's keeping us from achieving the goal of a low-carbon global economy is not a limited supply of metals to make wind turbines, solar panels, and electric cars—it's the political will to make the transition happen.
— The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales (Page 225)
Salinger had other attributes. One Barbizon resident recalled that “I’d never encountered such intensity in a person,” while another noted his odd sense of humor: she returned to the Barbizon fully convinced she had just been on a date with the goalie of the Montreal Canadiens—which Salinger had pretended to be.
— The Barbizon by Paulina Bren (31%)
What a wild thing to do on a date!
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.
