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kwmg40
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Pickpick

I enjoyed this account of the early female astronomers at the Harvard Observatory. Not surprising that they didn't get the salary or the respect they deserved at the time!

#gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper (prompt 26, Wheezing: Features a positive change)
#52bookclub24 (prompt 6, Women in STEM)

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coffees
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Panpan

I really wanted to like this book because astronomy is one of my "secret" fascinations. But it fell very short. It starts off ok, and my only confusion stems from a European sport Idk about but later the author references diagrams in the physical book...which kind of defeats the purpose (imo) of the audiobook. If anything, this is more of a companion to the physical. In conclusion, I understood almost nothing bc I couldn't see the diagrams ?

coffees I'm sure the diagrams are made available but as I was driving (as I tend to do when audiobook listening)...well, I couldn't see them 1w
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LiseWorks
The Stars | INC. DORLING KINDERSLEY
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Eggs Beautiful 🌟🤩🌟 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💙💫🤍 2mo
bthegood love this 🌟 2mo
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DebinHawaii
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Mehso-so

#JumpStart2024 #ReadAway2024

Not gonna lie, I pushed & skimmed to the end to finish for #SheSaid which makes me sad since the women of the Harvard Observatory were amazing, worked their tails off & have not received all the praise due them. But, by golly this was a slog! There are flashes of greatness & points that made me gasp, tear up or marvel but they were too far in between the data dump of names & dates & things I didn‘t need details on.😖

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻Bye! Bye! 2mo
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vlwelser
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Mehso-so

This somehow managed to be incredibly interesting and intensely boring at the same time. That's a unique skill set.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

BkClubCare 😂 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m there too at the moment, bought the audiobook hoping that might help….not yet 😂 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2mo
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AmyG
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1. What happens when you die?
2. Is there life after death? Reincarnation?
3. The universe, space, life on other planets?

Only 3 things? But I have so many more questions! 🤣

#TLT @dabbe

Crazeedi Great questions!! 2mo
dabbe You and I have similar questions, m'dear! 😂😍🤩 2mo
AmyG Ha! Thanks friends @dabbe @Crazeedi 2mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

Sorry for the day late post!

Bookwormjillk Sorry Melissa, I bailed on this one. I really wanted to like it! 2mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sorry again for the late post, it‘s been a long January for me. I‘ll be so glad for February. Anyone still plugging along with this book? Finding any kernels to enjoy? 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk Yes, it sounds like you weren‘t alone there. Sorry I couldn‘t be on the journey either with you on this one to encourage or commiserate either. 2mo
AllDebooks I'm late to start. I liked the 1st chapter. I'll keep going as I really enjoyed Sobel's 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AllDebooks I haven‘t started it yet… long month here 🤷‍♀️ 2mo
AllDebooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa oh dear.I hope you have some time to yourself soon x 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AllDebooks Thank you. I hope so too. Moved my nephew and his girlfriend into my house this month. They are both going to college full time and working full time and were still struggling with rent. Rents are crazy here and their apartment wasn‘t even nice. Then we lost power for a few days with a storm, had frozen pipes to deal with after, and then I came down with Covid.😂 crazy long month. Now just need to help put away all their stuff 😉 2mo
AllDebooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa yikes, that is full-on. How kind of you to take them in. X 2mo
Bookwormjillk @Riveted_Reader_Melissa yikes, hope it gets easier next month! 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk It will. It was just a crazy one this month.😂 2mo
Smrloomis Wow, hope everyone is finally getting some rest. It‘s tough to study full-time and work full-time too! Rent is insanely high where I live too so I‘m sure they appreciate you taking them in! 2mo
vlwelser I still haven't finished part 2. I'm also recovering from covid. And my company laid off 1650 employees on Friday. One was a direct report. One was a former manager. It's a lot. 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser That is a lot, very emotional and heavy…and worse when you are sick on top of everything else. I hope you start feeling well soon, and that everyone you care about and all the others find good work soon 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That is just so many employees. 2mo
ShelleyBooksie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa - are you doing a 2024 non fiction bingo? 2mo
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @ShelleyBooksie yes, just look under #Nonfiction2024 add template to the end for the blank card 2mo
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

How is everyone doing this weekend? Read picking up any for you? I‘m going to have to skip this one for now and circle back later… moving my nephew and his girlfriend into my house right now so quiet reading time has disappeared for awhile. Hopefully it will settle down again soon and I can catch up again.

vlwelser I'm definitely not finished with part 2 yet. It's interesting but it's also quite boring. It's like a list of activities mare than anything else. Like the author took the facts and added in bits of correspondence. But that 2mo
vlwelser Oops... Is all there is to this. I bet it took an absurd amount of time. A for effort? 2mo
Bookwormjillk I‘m still struggling with this one. I was looking for an audiobook version, but my library doesn‘t have it. I‘ll see how far I can get on kindle tonight. It‘s a shame because the history of science particularly astronomy and physics is one of my favorite subjects, but there just doesn‘t seem to be enough here to make a book. 2mo
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DebinHawaii
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#NewYearNewBooks

The January pick for #SheSaid is all about #WomenInScience. The tale of the women Harvard College University hired in the mid-nineteenth century to calculate, interpret & catalogue observation of the stars on glass photographic plates (the glass universe refers to the over 500,000 plates amassed.) They discovered stars, created classification systems & altered the course of astronomy mostly w/o much of the credit they deserved.

Eggs Fascinating 💛💛 2mo
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Shelm1

“You live on a planet named Earth. Eorth goes around the Sun, and the path it takes is called an orbit.”