I loved the “too queer” chapter on Caitlyn Jenner. Petersen‘s discussion about “passing” as a trans person gave my language for my own complicated feelings on gender, sex and femininity.

💕❤️💕❤️

This book is so good. All I want to do is sit and bed and read it. I‘m so tired. But…must…carry…on…

I will be buying the next used copy I find.

Playground reading season has begun!

Really excited to be starting this book.

What a delightful story. I‘m ready for the movie. Someone make this book a movie.

“…a private matter, to be decided by the nation‘s citizens, and not its government. It‘s a fundamental right. Privacy in this context means the freedom from government intrusion.”

Holy smokes Batman. If this isn‘t the most small government argument for choice, I don‘t know what is. How Republicans can argue that the states should get to weigh in on these decisions, it‘s really messed up. Aside from like, controlling women.

We know that the abortion debate is NOT about the health of the mother. But it continues to shock me how LITTLE we talk about the risks and trials of pregnancy and birth.

If anti-abortionists cared about maternal health, they would address the dangers of pregnancy and birthing.

My self-curated Women‘s studies course continues.

These are the books (and tchotchkes) that were in front of my books on my bookshelf.

My goodness I have a lot of books to read to “fit” in my bookshelves.

They‘re not even a small bookshelves!!

I have had this out from the library for way too long. I hope it‘s a quick read!

“…most people will still opt for privacy and autonomy over technical efficiency and community interest.”

While obvious, this blew my mind. Is this perhaps why we are so lonely? Privacy and autonomy are optimized in isolation. But that is not where we are humans find most of our happiness and contentment.

“Democracy dies in darkness” also comes to mind when optimizing for privacy and the U.S‘s current political issues.

I‘m curating my own gender studies course.
Any readings I‘m missing?

Let‘s learn more about women!

Currently reading.

I started this one moments before I got en email about how overdue “The Glutton” is. Apologies to everyone who has that one on hold at their library!!

I got what every woman wants for her birthday. Books on feminism and women studies.

Currently reading. V.e.r.y. S.l.o.w.l.y.

I went to the library to pick up a hold and read. But ended up mostly just took pictures of books I want to read.

Anyone else do this?

I went to the library to pick up a hold and read. But ended up mostly just took pictures of books I want to read.

Anyone else do this?

This book might be nine years old. But we know that the numbers and general trend line of poverty has not changed significantly since then. In fact, I wonder what the Dobbs ruling has done to exacerbate many of the issues outlines in this book.

These books have been on my shelf for 6 and 4 years.
This is what motivated my 1:1 fiction:non-fiction challenge this year.

Time to move off the TBR shelf!

Favorite author I haven‘t read yet.

I hope I‘m not disappointed. 🤪🤪😬😬

❤️❤️❤️

How big is Lily? She breaks stools but fits in a large bathtub? I‘m confused.

“There is the pathology of patriarchy which has, in capitalist societies, tended to see women and the home as refuges from the market…” 🤯🤯

I lost track of time while reading this one today in the library.

Me, a woman, holding a thing.

2023 round up:
40 books read. 21 public library, 19 home library
Favorites: Hild, the street, stolen

I allowed myself to bail on a lot of books this year.

2024 challenge: 1:1 fiction to non-fiction.
Wish me luck!

This book is so low key dark. It affected my sleep last night. Oh the foreboding!

The typesetting was not my fav. But this book is stuffed with New York nostalgia. It was great.

Well, color me intrigued.

I LOVE this cover.

My husband spent some time working in Bartlesville. Finding this book at a used bookstore in New Orleans was a hoot. #secondhandbooks #oklahoma

I put my dog down today. I bought these to help. It didn‘t.

Found this one at my little bookworm‘s school library. Looks good!

We‘re obsessed with this poem in my house right now.

Great book. Literally very heavy.

My cousin nailed my gift this year. #banorah #nailedit #hanukkah #menorah #festivaloflights

Lunch today really hit the spot on all fronts.

I didn‘t make it very far. It was all too scary for me.

Revising a conventional story to address the unsung work of millions! That‘s my kind of History!

I spent the long weekend in my childhood home.

Loving this so far.

This book was recommended by a neighborhood acquaintance.

“The nuclear family structures around the male breadwinner was … of recent invention, arising in the 1920s and peaking in the 1950s and 1960s; before then, multigenerational families relying on multiple contributions to the family economy had been the norm.”

Christian nationalism might be the biggest threat to democracy in American today.

I am very turned off by how kawaguchi describes his female characters.

TBD on bailing because of that.

My high school history teacher talked about this briefly in a class 20 years ago. I‘m excited to learn more.

“Witty and acute feminine conversation, by contrast, could not be hung on any wall. No one builds a monument to it.”

(TBH this felt bigger within the context.)

This is my first Zadie Smith.

What else should I read from her oeuvre?