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In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "classes" in Nineteenth-century America | Sarah Wadsworth, Associate Professor of English Sarah Wadsworth

Found out my daughter‘s field hockey practice is only a half mile walk from a used bookstore. Good thing this is the last practice. Couldn‘t resist this cozy with the unhinged cover.

MonicaLoves2Read Your book Roads to Quoz will fill a space on the #ISPYBINGO board this month😊 1w

Bookwormjillk @MonicaLoves2Read what‘s the prompt? I loved his other book

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

MonicaLoves2Read @Bookwormjillk look under the #ISPYBINGO or look at @TheAromaofBooks or @DieARead They host it every month 1w

TheAromaofBooks Yes, I do the I Spy Bingo challenge, it's just a bingo board of stuff to try and find on book covers each month - here is June's board if you're interested - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2870423 - and that post has the links to the other boards and the “rules“ ...which are pretty loosey-goosey, per my usual style 😂 1w

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vivastory

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Revolution | Alan Axelrod

“The bill will include even more funding for the military and more funding for Trump‘s border crackdown, while slashing crucial programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and also repealing clean energy credits put in place by the Biden administration. Up to 15 million Americans will be uninsured by 2034 due to the bill‘s cuts, and 7.6 million will be at risk of losing Medicaid,(cont):
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vivastory (15 Million Americans will be uninsured!! Over MF eggs. Health insurance over eggs,)
https://newrepublic.com/post/195606/house-pass-tax-bill-medicaid-cuts-republican...
(Also: calling the Republicans brave is quite the editorial stretch) 3w

AnnCrystal 🙏🏼🇺🇲🦅🇺🇸. 3w

TheBookHippie Ain‘t no hate like Christian love. The cruelty is the point. Breaking people is the point. Pure evil. 3w

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Suet624 It‘s unconscionable. 3w

BooksandCoffee4Me @TheBookHippie please know that he and many of his supporters call themselves Christians but are not truly. In Luke 6, Jesus says that at their death, “Many will say ‘Lord‘ and I‘ll say I never knew them” because of how they lived. A Christian loves people. I do not stand with the so-called Christian right. I stand with Jesus and those who truly live His Word. 💛 3w

ncsufoxes Adding additional work requirements for the elderly & disabled that receive Medicaid is just 🤬 3w

Prairiegirl_reading It‘s just sickening. And I don‘t even live in the US. 3w

TheBookHippie @BooksandCoffee4Me I do know. I know most of the Bible by memory -and The Torah and the Jewish Bible. They‘re still using it. So it‘s still true. As long as they use the name they tarnish it for it. It‘s an unfortunate truth. It‘s also unfortunate they don‘t know the beatitudes let alone Matthew 25:31-46. I attend church with Mr BookHippie who is Presbyterian, I attended parochial school. I was in a building of worship MWTS&S my entire childhood 3w

TheBookHippie @BooksandCoffee4Me I was raised multi-faithed and I‘m well versed in Christianity. I‘m happy you are a person of love. These people wouldn‘t recognise Jesus if he walked in the door. 3w

TheBookHippie @ncsufoxes it‘s unreal. 3w

TheBookHippie @Prairiegirl_reading It‘s truly sick. 3w

CoverToCoverGirl Scary… the voters who supported, can‘t say the name, are still wearing rose tinted goggles watching everything unfold with eager and malice filled hearts, without even realizing that the gun is being aimed and fired directly at them. They will act surprised when they finally realize what‘s been done. I‘m Canadian and happy the our vote didn‘t go down that road in our recent election but it was a very worrisome few weeks, possibly a near miss. 3w

Reggie Ummm did you see the part where there‘s actually tax credits for the people who own tanning beds. It‘s so crazy. 3w

BarbaraBB Aren‘t there any well-meaning republicans left in that government? I keep wondering why reasonable thinking politicians don‘t stand up together against the mad man, but that might be naive. (edited) 3w

AnnCrystal
@TheBookHippie @BooksandCoffee4Me

The attempted genocide of my American Indigenous ancestors, and the forced assimilation of the survivors, all done by people who claimed Catholic and Christianity as their “guiding“ faith. As a daughter of a Catholic God, I know my God. My God is pure love above all else. I refuse to believe my God wanted the bloodshed of my ancestors, nor the hatred fueled chaos of today. 3w

TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal agreed. 3w

TheBookHippie @Reggie I did!!! What in the world?!?! 3w

TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB not that I know of … but I keep hoping one turns up… 3w

BarbaraBB @Reggie That part even made it to our news. We‘re beyond flabbergasted 3w

BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal Agree! 3w

AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie @BooksandCoffee4Me
😘💝💝💝.
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vivastory @BarbaraBB I read an article a few yrs ago about Republicans who at one point went on right wing media, specifically Fox news, and for the most part played the game w/ a bit of scepticism but did it anyway to get votes even if they didn't believe a lot of what Fox was selling. There was a shift when those politicians retired and the incoming Republicans were raised on Fox & 100% bought into any nonsense they sold. That article always stuck with me 3w

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Vivlio_Gnosi

The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence | T. H. Breen

"The rhetoric of protest unsupported by the means of enforcement amounted to little more than bombast."

#nonfiction #history #socialpsychology

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Leftcoastzen

British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 | Rick Atkinson

Puzzle was on sale , I know this book will take awhile. I stubbed 2 toes this afternoon, not thrilled. Guess I will have to keep it up & read the rest of the afternoon.

Ruthiella Ouch! The danger of open toed shoes! 1mo

Leftcoastzen @Ruthiella well , I was barefoot in my house , you think I would remember where all the corners in my house actually are by now ! 😂 1mo

TheBookHippie I have this same problem… 🫣👣 1mo

AnnCrystal Hate when I do that 🙏💝. 1mo

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keithmalek

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence | Ray Raphael

...evidence of 150 riots in the 13 colonies from 1765 through 1769--and there were undoubtedly more he did not detect. During the early 1770s, according to Gilje, the rioting continued on a similar scale.

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keithmalek

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence | Ray Raphael

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ChrisBohjalian

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 | Rick Atkinson

It was 250 years ago that our great experiment with democracy began. So, I read the first volume in Rick Atkinson's wonderful history of the Revolutionary War.

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Rome753

Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow

My local library was having a used book sale today. I stopped by to browse, and ended up buying a few books.
I've bought a good amount of books from library book sales over the years. I've felt they served multiple good functions - help support the local library, purchase some books at a good price, and help serve as a way of passing on books.

Bookwormjillk Agree! I always love supporting library sales. 1mo

Rome753 @Bookwormjillk They're definitely nice and worthwhile. A few times I've managed to walk away with a mix of books from my wishlist, and books that happened to catch my interest. Thankfully, a couple of my local libraries seem to be doing well with their used book sales. 1mo

Octoberwoman I love library sales! I think over half my collection have come from them. 1mo

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BC_Dittemore

The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government | Fergus M. Bordewich

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Welp… I‘m not surprised that the first congress was as chaotic as the 119th congress is.

Despite the chaos of the first, almost everyone there (& I fully believe this) was genuine in their concern about building a great country; while our 119th congress…

One thing that really struck me was how prevalent tensions between North & South already were, & how critically the North‘s assent to the South in this time has shaped history up to this day.

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