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ManyWordsLater

Joined May 2016

Raising two bookworms 🐛🐛 2024 challenge - 1:1 fiction to non-fiction
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My self-curated Women‘s studies course continues.

ncsufoxes This one was really interesting. Very data driven but still accessible. 4d
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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!!

Aimeesue Ooh, the lovely Persephones! 1w
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The Glutton | A. K. Blakemore
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I have had this out from the library for way too long. I hope it‘s a quick read!

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“…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.

jewright My husband works with a man from Afganistán, and this is what he hates about America. He doesn‘t understand why we don‘t live in a big house with family. 1mo
Reggie @jewright have you ever read World War Z? It‘s probably the best zombie book you could ever read. But in the 3rd part where they‘re rebuilding the world. Everyone who has a house, gets families assigned to let them live with them. There is a single man who has, I think, 2 families put with him and he talks about he didn‘t know what he was missing. How lonely he was and how we have all this space and it‘s just empty. I think about that a lot. 4w
ManyWordsLater @Reggie I LOVE THAT! ❤️💕❤️ 3w
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I‘m curating my own gender studies course.
Any readings I‘m missing?

fredthemoose I can‘t totally see them all, but here are a couple more to consider… 1mo
fredthemoose It‘s been a couple of years since I read this—I don‘t remember it clearly, but might be worth a look 1mo
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fredthemoose Or maybe the Witches Are Coming. Looks like a great selection. Hope you have a great course! 1mo
fredthemoose Oh, one more. This has been on my TBR since hearing the author on the Ezra Klein show. 1mo
staci.reads I agree with @Bookwormjillk Invisible Women is one of the best I've read. Also the tagged. 1mo
KathyWheeler I agree with the Invisible Women suggestion. 1mo
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Let‘s learn more about women!

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Naamah | Sarah Blake
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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!!

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

Ruthiella Happy Birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 2mo
JoyBlue Happy birthday! 🎂 2mo
BarbaraBB Yay! Happy birthday 🎈 2mo
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KathyWheeler Happy birthday. The Turnaway Study looks interesting. 2mo
LeahBergen Happy Birthday! 2mo
Dilara Happy Birthday! 🌷 2mo
Librarybelle Happy Birthday! 2mo
Tamra Happy Birthday & Happy Reading! 2mo
TheBookgeekFrau Happy Birthday!! 🥳🎂 2mo
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Currently reading. V.e.r.y. S.l.o.w.l.y.

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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?

Bookwormjillk Yup. Actually it‘s on my to do list this week to transfer all the pictures of books I want to read on my phone to my actual TBR list. 2mo
ravenlee Absolutely! And then forget about them for months until I‘m looking for something else and stumble across the pics. 2mo
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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?

JamieArc Yep! And then forget to go through my photos to add them to my TBR 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2mo
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America | Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
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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.

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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!

Ruthiella Good luck! 👍 2mo
Suet624 $2.00 a day would be tough. 2mo
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Arrogant Beggar | Anzia Yezierska
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Favorite author I haven‘t read yet.

I hope I‘m not disappointed. 🤪🤪😬😬

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Women Holding Things | Maira Kalman
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❤️❤️❤️

dabbe 💜🩶💜 2mo
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How big is Lily? She breaks stools but fits in a large bathtub? I‘m confused.

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

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The Arrival | Shaun Tan
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I lost track of time while reading this one today in the library.

TheBookHippie I love this book. 2mo
IndoorDame Just discovered this last month. Sublime! 2mo
TieDyeDude ♥️♥️♥️ 2mo
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Women Holding Things | Maira Kalman
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Me, a woman, holding a thing.

Ruthiella Perfect! 🤩 2mo
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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!

RaeLovesToRead David Shrigley! 2mo
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dabbe #hailthebails! 🖤💙🖤 2mo
TieDyeDude 🎉 🤘 2mo
Ruthiella Good luck! 👍 (edited) 2mo
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This book is so low key dark. It affected my sleep last night. Oh the foreboding!

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

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Well, color me intrigued.

I LOVE this cover.

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If Bartlesville's Walls Could Talk | Vicki Stewart, Debbie Neece, Barbara Garrison
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My husband spent some time working in Bartlesville. Finding this book at a used bookstore in New Orleans was a hoot. #secondhandbooks #oklahoma

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

Bookwormjillk I‘m so sorry. 💔 3mo
TEArificbooks That is never easy. I‘m sorry 3mo
Tamra So hard to say goodbye. 😢 3mo
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ravenlee I‘m so sorry, always the worst day. 3mo
TheSpineView So sorry! Sending hugs! 3mo
marleed Oh, I‘m sorry. 3mo
Soubhiville Oh, I‘m so sad for you. It‘s hard losing such an important part of your life. 3mo
MrsMalaprop That‘s so sad 😞. I hope you find some solace in reading soon. 3mo
Deblovestoread I‘m so sorry! Be gentle with yourself. 💔 3mo
LeahBergen I‘m so sorry! 💔 3mo
Meshell1313 So sorry. Sending strength and good thoughts your way. ❤️ 3mo
curiouserandcurioser @ManyWordsLater im so very sorry💔 3mo
Christine So sorry. 3mo
Ruthiella So sorry to hear that. 💔 3mo
ReadingRachael I‘m so sorry, it is so very hard 3mo
TheBookgeekFrau I'm so sorry 💔😢 3mo
JenReadsAlot I'm so sorry for your loss 3mo
Dilara I‘m so sorry for your loss. 3mo
zuzia So sorry for your loss. :( 3mo
BarbaraBB So sorry for you 🤍 3mo
jlhammar So sorry 💔 3mo
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Stealing Home | J. Torres
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Found this one at my little bookworm‘s school library. Looks good!

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

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Shubeik Lubeik | Deena Mohamed
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Great book. Literally very heavy.

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

AmyG That is so randomly awesome. 3mo
Tamra That is just about the most awesome thing I‘ve ever seen - certainly this year! 👏🏾 3mo
Ruthiella 😂😂😂 🍌 3mo
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IndoorDame 😂😂😂 3mo
Aimeesue 😂 3mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
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Lunch today really hit the spot on all fronts.

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Bailedbailed

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

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The Vaster Wilds | Lauren Groff
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maybe I just don‘t understand early colonialists. How did she find food in so many places but the colonists couldn‘t?

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

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The Vaster Wilds | Lauren Groff
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I spent the long weekend in my childhood home.

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Stolen | Ann-Heln Laestadius
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Loving this so far.

Tamra The blurb is compelling! 4mo
SamAnne I‘ve even trying to get to this one since last January! 4mo
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This book was recommended by a neighborhood acquaintance.

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“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.”

TieDyeDude This sounds interesting. I read One Nation Under God by Kevin Kruse (don't remember if I finished it) which focused more on corporate corruption of Christianity. It is amazing how much of our “ingrained culture“ is relatively new, like “under God“ in the pledge of allegiance. 4mo
TheBookgeekFrau I feel like the multigenerational family is going to become the norm again. Between the cost and shortage of childcare, not to mention grocery prices 😱 Honestly, I don't think multigenerational living is a bad thing. 4mo
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Christian nationalism might be the biggest threat to democracy in American today.

Suet624 Agreed 4mo
Julsmarshall So true. 4mo
Prairiegirl_reading That‘s the way I see it too. 😞 4mo
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Tamra Very scary….period. 4mo
TheBookHippie Agreed. Terrifying. 4mo
marleed Yep. 4mo
Aimeesue I‘ve been wondering when they stopped asking WWJD, because it certainly wouldn‘t be much of the stuff I‘ve seen lately. 4mo
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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I am very turned off by how kawaguchi describes his female characters.

TBD on bailing because of that.

Jolynne Shucks! I have it on hold. (edited) 4mo
monkeygirlsmama Sorry hear you didn't enjoy this one. I loved it and just got my hands on a copy of the next two books. 4mo
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My high school history teacher talked about this briefly in a class 20 years ago. I‘m excited to learn more.

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The Fraud | Zadie Smith
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“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.)

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The Fraud | Zadie Smith
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This is my first Zadie Smith.

What else should I read from her oeuvre?

jlhammar On Beauty is my favorite. Haven‘t tried this newest yet. 5mo
charl08 All of it! I like her essays too. 4mo
Fridayfilms Agree - On Beauty was my favourite 2mo
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Menewood: A Novel | Nicola Griffith

This book was supposedly came out yesterday and my bookstore and the library don‘t have any copies!!😾😾

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The Fraud | Zadie Smith
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This is why I had to restack the books from my last post.

New library books> home TBR books

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I had taken these from my TBR shelf to read. Then my library holds peaked my interest…

Who can relate?

Tamra It‘s a terrible dilemma! 😅 6mo
marleed You see me! …I play this game with new-release library holds. I tell myself I can deduct $12 (great deal on a new release) from that year‘s tax bill for every new release I get from the library. It‘s fun and it allows me to release my guilt for the books sitting unread on my shelves. I mean I need those books for the day when library book loans are banned. 6mo
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Spear | Nicola Griffith
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A little Nicola Griffith before Menewood comes out.

annahenke I loved Hild - very excited to see this one is out! 6mo
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The Soul of a Woman | Isabel Allende
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“No one can demand forgiveness of the victims of repression”

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Japanese fiction can feel so lonely.

BarbaraBB That it does. I recently read this one too 6mo
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Monsters of Templeton | Lauren Groff
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Bailedbailed

My sister loved this book. But I just don‘t connect with any of the characters. I‘ve been reading this on and off for over a month. That‘s enough. I‘m done.

Deblovestoread To give credit where it‘s due I stole #hailthebail from @Cinfhen 😁 6mo
Cinfhen Thanks for the shoutout @Deblovestoread 😘 6mo
Cinfhen And I‘ve heard mixed things about this book- so agreed… it was time to evoke the bail #AllHailTheBail 6mo
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Soul of a Woman | Isabel Allende
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So many memorable quotes. I‘ve been only posting some of them.

Should I post more?

IuliaC Oh yes! This one is like a collection of good quotes 😊 6mo
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