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The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts | Philip Freeman

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MOTHER OF PEARL THIS BOOK SUCKED!!!
Gird your loins, because here it comes (complete with rant)...
Half the book isn‘t even about what the whole book claims to be about. The first half of the book is about the “philosopher” in Greece and Rome and what he would have heard about the Gauls from there. There is only one chapter that involved Druids. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

GingerAntics It‘s full of cliches and myths that were debunked in the decade before this was written, making it outdated before it was even published. The entire book boils down to “this is how it was for the pre-Christian Irish, so it must have been similar.” I don‘t get why everyone raved about this book. Even his epilogue wasn‘t what it promised. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y

GingerAntics “The Celtic Heritage” turned out to be “Rome never conquered Ireland or Scotland.” Whoopy! I should have stopped reading when he said Julius Caesar was a great source on the Celts and implied it was accurate. Was this book actually written in the 1950s?! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y

GingerAntics If you want actual, factual history, look else where. If you need something to help you fall asleep and don‘t care about facts or only making suppositions you can support with sources, this is the book for you. 4y

GingerAntics #PhilipFreeman #ThePhilosopherAndTheDruids #Posidonius #Celtic #ContinentalCelts #rant #sarcasm (edited) 4y

GingerAntics @Texreader 🎶🎵🎶Mama's pearl, let down those curls won't you give my love a whirl find what you been missin' Ooh, ooh, now baby Goody girl, let down those curls let me give your heart a twirl don't keep me wishing... 🎶🎵🎶 look what you did!!! Everything is a bloody song now. I swear, there is a musical inside my head. 🤣😂🤣 4y

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GingerAntics

When God was a Woman | Merlin Stone

Oy. 🤦🏼‍♀️ By this chick‘s logic, I can‘t study or write about my specialty in the history field because it‘s mostly about men, and I‘m not a man. THANKS FOR BEING A GOOD FEMINIST SWEETHEART!!! 🤬🤬🤬 Real feminists don‘t make 🤬 comments like this, because they see how the flip side actually hurts women. 🤬 FFS, I know a brilliant historian that studies women in the military through history. It‘s fascinating. HIS papers are always eye opening.

GingerAntics If a man is interested in the female perspective and he wants to spend all his time reading about it and he decides to share what he‘s discovered with the world, MORE 👏🏻 POWER 👏🏻 TO 👏🏻 HIM!!! 👏🏻 FFS #rant #rantover #feminismshouldnthurtwomen #pleasestopattackingfemalehistorians #womenhistorians #womeninhistory 4y

Chrissyreadit It may also be a reflection of when this was written and how women in academia were treated. When I was little girls were not considered good at math or science, should be nurses not drs, etc. I really remember the difference of how some teachers were with boys compared to girls. 4y

TheBookHippie People are fun. 🙄🤬 4y

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TheBookHippie My favourite “but you‘re a feminist and you‘re always cooking so how can that be ?!......” oye 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit 🤦🏼‍♀️ I don‘t get people who can‘t figure out the very simple concept that feminism just means believing (sometimes militantly when necessary) that men and women are both capable of the same things. Women cook, but men are chefs. WTF?! Ugh. (edited) 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie the book was written in a period when that was the case. Hell, I had teachers in the 90s that acted that way. Still, this review was written in 2013...and sadly this is an argument I hear all the time. By making some things just for females, you‘re keeping us separate, and separate is never equal. Sadly, I see this mentality A LOT with feminists my age. “We want x for ourselves.” (edited) 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit they just don‘t see how that‘s the exact thing feminism is against! Drives me nuts! 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics SAME. It makes me crazy. 4y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie though, from what I heard and read, almost as soon as feminism started, women who were happy as home makers and wanted to be home makers were excluded because the early feminists thought they were brain washed or supporting the patriarchy. Wasn‘t the whole point that women should be free to be and be whatever they want? I don‘t get why anyone thinks restricting males is the answer, ie any better. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 4y

Birdsong28 🤯😵🤬📚📖 4y

Chrissyreadit I think part of this is that so many women experienced patriarchy in different ways, and it can have an effect. I think if we follow the anger we will find trauma. The bad side is people who demonize the term feminist. I love when people understand it means equality in general but even that term is taken out of context often. BTW- it was used against women in many ways- I would have loved to be home with my children instead of working full time. 4y

Chrissyreadit Reagonomics used women in the work force to create an economic system that further disenfranchised single mothers and glorified two working parents as a gift instead of decimating a healthy middle class. In terms of matriarchy I love that we had Native American societies that were matrilineal. 4y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Yup. It blows your mind. Equal people it means equal! 4y

TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit gahhhhh Reganomics 🤢🤬 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit matriarchal and matrilineal are two different things. Many cultures around the world, before and since the rise of Rome, have been matrilineal (mostly in places the Romans didn‘t go). Matriarchy is just the patriarchy in reverse and that is a actually quite rare and always has been. Many cultures determine lineage through the mother or allow children to inherit from the mother (matrilineal). 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit Anderson Cooper actually rejected his matrilineal inheritance when his mother died (mostly because he never thought he was getting it because she‘d told him that, and he basically held her to her word I guess). America is matrilineal now and was when this book was written. 4y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie Reagan certainly demonised single mothers, along with some other folks. I‘m sorry, I don‘t trust a “Republican turned Democrat.” 4y

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ChristinasBookChronicles

Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens

#Rant
Ever read a line that disturbs you enough that you have to stop reading for a minute? For me, that's what "She nodded, so he leaned down and kissed her softly at first, and then like a man." I think this is why I can't read a lot of romance or erotica novels. Why do we perpetuate the idea that 'softly' or 'gently' cannot be manly at the same time? Why do we, even as subtle as this line may seem, enforce that to be a man you must use force?

keepingupwiththepenguins Ugh! What a terrible line! Right there with you, that really ticks me off. 5y

ChristinasBookChronicles Thanks for the solidarity! I try to push my discomfort aside when hard language makes sense for the time or character, but it's one thing to expect something from a sexist character, as you'd expect in this 1960s setting, and completely different when it seeps from the female author. 5y

Readerann Ugh is right! 5y

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GingerAntics

History | Elsa Morante

🤦🏼‍♀️ the word “history” has nothing to do with “his story”. I wish people would get that ridiculous idea out of their bloody heads. History is history no matter the age, location or gender. “Herstory” sounds ridiculous and actually makes life harder for historians that are female. LEARN YOUR ETYMOLOGY PEOPLE!!!
rant over
#rant #history #etymology #whyhistorymatters #whyetymologymatters

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BookArt

What Is the What | Dave Eggers

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I'm furious at Valentino for giving up on Maria so quickly. She's clearly in a terrible situation and has been torn down by her awful adopted family. The irony of him leaving Maria in the dust after she picked him up years before is extremely depressing and infuriating. #rant

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reading.in.brussels

Untitled | Unknown

Novellas: I don't read them, however much I might love the author. My reasons? It's either because novellas are very short (I love lengthy novels with deep characters and well-established plotlines, and those are lacking in novellas), or because I feel that some authors ride the success wave of some novels and continue spinning short stories with the same characters over and over, with no ending - and I hate that! Thoughts anyone?
#rant #discuss

Prairiegirl_reading I don‘t care for short stories as a general rule. I often just want more. Novellas feel the same way sometimes but I‘d take a novella over a book of stories. 6y

Booknerd2 I agree with you. I‘m afraid that about the time I get sucked in and totally invested it will be over too quickly, leaving me feeling unsatisfied. 😢 6y

Simona I love novellas, and in good ones you can find deep characterization and strong plotlines. My last one is the favorite book in this year (so far)

The Standing Chandelier: A Novella

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reading.in.brussels @Prairiegirl_reading This being how I feel about novellas, I think I'd dislike short stories even more! 6y

reading.in.brussels @Booknerd2 exactly! 6y

reading.in.brussels @Simona I've checked the synopsis of The Standing Chandelier, and it seems interesting enough that I might just give it a chance. 6y

sammisho I agree. I don't like short stories in general. And when they are part of a series, I just wish they would hurry up and write the next book instead! 6y

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Jabberwocky

Posted | John David Anderson

Blurred picture so as not to give away the #postlit book. I‘m having a terrible pain day and it‘s hard to have such an invisible chronic pain disease. I hate it. It‘s hard to have to convince people that see you on a daily basis that you are in ‘enough pain‘ to ‘count‘. Just because I am able to paste a smile on my face doesn‘t give you a right to make assumptions. I dunno guys it‘s been a day and a half. Be kind to your fellow humans. 💖 #rant

cobwebmoth I hope tomorrow is better. *gentle hugs* 6y

JenlovesJT47 I completely understand where you're coming from, as one chronic pain sufferer to another. Hugs!! 💚🤗💚 6y

BookishTrish 🤗 friend 6y

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Dragon Hugs 🤗 6y

LeahBergen Hugs. 💕 6y

Sophoclessweetheart Hugs your way dear. My mother suffers this too so I know how challenging it can be. Stay positive 💪 xx 6y

Kaye I hope today is better for you. We all need to learn to not judge what other‘s lives may be , because we are not in their shoes. 6y

JessClark78 🤗❤️ 6y

Lindy 🌻🌻🌻 6y

mrozzz 💜💜💜💜 6y

Jabberwocky @mrozzz @Lindy @JessClark78 @Kaye @Wanderingwithwords @LeahBergen @dragon @BookishTrish @JenlovesJT47 @cobwebmoth Thank you all for the love. You all make litsy the safest and most loving corner of the internet 6y

Sophoclessweetheart 💛💛💛 6y

ErikasMindfulShelf Feel better 💕💕 6y

JulAnna I hope by now you are feeling better! 😊 6y

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Jabberwocky

The Fate of the Tearling | Erika Johansen

I‘m on a new #chronicpain medication and it‘s giving me crazy mood swings and taking away what little functionality I have on a day to day basis. I‘ve been snappy and impatient at work and with my partner and dog and I‘m just over it. I‘m hiding out with Georgia for now. #spoonie #rant #dogsoflitsy

LeahBergen I hope you feel better soon ❤️ 6y

Louise I hear you! I too struggle with chronic pain. Finding the right balance for optimum functioning is a huge challenge and requires a fine-tuned knowledge of one's body moment by moment. I hope you start to feel balanced soon! ❤️ What an adorable doggie! 🐾 6y

DHill Hope you feel better soon! 6y

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TaylorMay Sending you lots of love, patience, strength. Glad you have an awesome cuddle buddy 💙 6y

Scurvygirl Lots of love! Fellow spoonie! Always a new med! Take care of yourself and be kind. 💜💜💜 6y

AmyG Hope you are feeling better soon. 6y

cobwebmoth Hope you feel better soon. 6y

readordierachel I'm sorry. Hope you're feeling better soon! 6y

JSW Lots of love. Be patient with yourself. You‘re adjusting. 😘❤️ 6y

Jabberwocky Oh guys thank you so much for the love. I‘ve needed it. 💚 @jsw @ReadOrDieRachel @AmyG @Scurvygirl @TaylorMary @LeahBergen @louise @DHill 6y

RaimeyGallant I'm so sorry to hear that. You deserve treats. :) 6y

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hike.read.repeat

Pacific Crest Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail | Zach Davis

Also, I heard that Strayed donates $ to the PCTA which works to maintain the trail. So these elitists need to stfu. #rant #rantover #mytwocents

Anyone read Wild? What did you think of it? If you liked the adventure aspect of I highly recommend Thruhiking Will Break Your Heart by Carrot Quinn. 😁

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bookcyns

Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard

RANT:
Oh my gods please tell me I‘m not the only one who thinks that Red Queen is seriously just The Hunger Games rewritten and slightly altered?!?! Don‘t get me wrong, I like it, but I‘m just disappointed. Since page one I felt that way, then it kind of went on it own way but then BAM! THG to a tee. I‘m gonna finish reading/listening to it tomorrow. I really hope it doesn‘t keep mimicking THG #RANT

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