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Joined December 2016

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Mom is currently reading through Elizabeth Hand books. Of course I started reading her in the 80s 😝. This one comes out on the 3rd. Has anyone read it yet?

Melismatic Was just mentioned as a recommendation by author Gabino Iglesias at the Brooklyn Book Festival today! First I‘d heard of it! Definitely want to check it out. 1d
gossamerchild I really want to read this one! Looks great. 1d
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batsy Keen to read this! 1w
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The Lady With The Dog | Anton Chekhov
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Lady With an Ermine By Jeff Stanford. Not related to picture: Get $5 off on Etsy on a purchase over $25 til tomorrow.

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Daughter of the King | Kerry Chaput
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I‘m looking forward to this one. My dads side is Quebecque.

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Oh look my high school is famous! I went there before (90s) the internet and social media became the behemoth they are now. I‘ll let you know what I think.

Texreader It sounds so good I‘ll look forward to your review 1mo
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A frozen woman | Annie Ernaux
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YES!!!! Welcome to another edition of “be glad your mother volunteers in a used bookstore.”

batsy Wow! Nice 😍 1mo
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Ruthiella Have you seen the movie about Camille Claudel starring Isabella Adjani? It‘s really good. 1mo
RowReads1 @Ruthiella it‘s one of my favorites 1mo
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#bookbuy This is a good bet. I loved her other fiction .

TheBookHippie I liked it very much. 1mo
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The Fraud | Zadie Smith
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Vansa Bit hypocritical of her to say she supports the fashion industry but also billionaires don't deserve to exist! Who does she think are the main customers of the couture industry?!Her novels are rife with these hypocrisies. 2mo
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zezeki Oh, I love his music a lot, I've enjoyed all the songs from the upcoming album so far released! 2mo
Caroline2 Ohhh thanks for the heads up. Excited to hear the new album. ❤️ 2mo
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Shortcomings | Adrian Tomine
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The Crane Husband | Kelly Barnhill

“In Ireland,” he continued, “the goddess Brigantia sat at her loom and wove the whole land into being, stitch by beautiful stitch. And broken stitch.” Another cough. “In China, the goddess Zhinu stitched each of the stars into the heavens, and wove the silver river streaking across the sky. In ancient Egypt, the goddess Neith wove two kingdoms together, and the Vikings sang sagas about the valkyries who wove on looms fitted with severed heads for

RowReads1 weights and used arrows to pull the thread from end to terrible end. Weavers could tell your fortune or remove enchantments or change your fate. You could weave a happy marriage, a healthy family, a doomed generation, an unraveling birthright. You never want to make a weaver angry, I‘ll tell you that much.” 2mo
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CatLass007 Thanks for sharing this. Looks intriguing. I have to stop staring at my screen right now but I‘ve saved it to read later. 2mo
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The Crane Husband | Kelly Barnhill

“I had nightmares after that. I dreamed of my mother standing in the endless fields beyond our yard, where no one was allowed to go, wings erupted from her bloody back, feathers piercing and rustling their way out of her skin, her beaking mouth open in a scream at first, then a sigh, then a bright keen as she lifted skyward and flew away. My father died a month later. And I was terrified of being alone. “

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The Crane Husband | Kelly Barnhill
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The Crane Husband | Kelly Barnhill

“and even though I knew enough about birds to know that they‘re not much for facial expressions, there was no mistaking the bird‘s randy, jubilant smirk. He puffed his feathers and preened. I slurped down my soup and excused myself from the table, saying I had homework to do- which was true, but I had no intention of actually doing it. He won‘t last. I told myself. Of course he won‘t. My mother wasn‘t one to keep anything around, save for me and

RowReads1 Michael. So I wasn‘t particularly worried about the crane. I should have been worried about the crane.” 2mo
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Leftcoastzen Sounds good! 2mo
batsy Unfortunately Litsy isn't loading pics for me right now, so I'm missing out! 2mo
RowReads1 @batsy It started for me too. Hopefully it will clear up soon. 2mo
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Tales of King Arthur | Thomas Malory
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My friend got me this meditation pillow for a late birthday gift 💝

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August Blue: A Novel | Deborah Levy
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TheLudicReader That is a beautiful cover. 2mo
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The film is fun. I loved the book as a kid. I related to the moving, not having a central religion, puberty and everything surrounding it. 😀

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The Postcard | Anne Berest

“They were going to have to leave. Again. That was just how things were. Myriam was used to it. The only way to keep from suffering, she knew, was just to move forward, to keep going, and never, never look back. But little Noemie began to cry. She hated the idea of leaving her grandparents, those mythical gods reigning over this paradise of olive and date orchards, in whose laps she loved to doze in the shade of the pomegranate trees.”

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Rememberings | Sinad O'Connor
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RIP

https://youtu.be/tqt3YZ6gG2w

This is a couple days late. I just wanted to post the above video. It‘s from 1997. It‘s eerily relevant considering the recent suicide of her beloved son Shane.

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The Postcard | Anne Berest

“Emmanuel was happier than ever.He had applied for naturalization as a French citizen thanks to the support of the filmmaker Jean Renoir, who had written him a letter of recommendation. He was still working in movies and finally beginning to make a name for himself. He was living with his fiancée, the painter Lydia Mendel, at 3 rue Joseph-Bara in the sixth arrondissement between the rue d‘Assas and the rue Norte-Dame-des-Champs, very near the

RowReads1 Montparnasse quarter. Reading these letters, Ephraim felt as if he could hear the distant sounds of a party where his brother was having fun without him. “ 2mo
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The Postcard | Anne Berest

“The little girls dashed toward the canals that snaked like miniature rivers through seemingly endless rows of orange trees, tiptoeing carefully along the canals low walls, arms held out like tightrope walkers, so as not to fall into the shallow irrigation channels. The farm laborers stared in surprise as the boss‘s granddaughters gamboled past them, their little shoes getting dirtier and dirtier as they darted among the trees. When it was time

RowReads1 for the afternoon nap, the men would go and rest in the shade of the Carob trees with their wide, gnarled, rough-barked trunks and their carmine-red flowers that left rusty stains on clothing- Myriam would always remember that their seeds could be ground into a flour that tasted like chocolate. “ (edited) 2mo
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The Postcard | Anne Berest

“Chopped liver is the best remedy for life‘s problems,” he said in Nachman‘s Russian accent, taking a big bite of chicken liver pate. But suddenly, amid the laughter, Ephraim felt a pang in his heart. Aniouta. His cousin‘s face flashed through his mind; he imagined her, at that very moment, celebrating Pesach with her own family, a husband and perhaps a baby, bent over the prayer book at a candlelit table. How beautiful maturity must have made her

RowReads1 , he thought. Even more beautiful. A shadow passed over his face. Emma noticed it immediately. “Are you alright? “ she asked. “Do you think we should have another child?” 2mo
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Outsider | Stephen King
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jdiehr I was lucky enough to live close by. I've been to Bart's many times 😊 2mo
gossamerchild This sounds amazing. 2mo
SamAnne Oh, I want to visit this place! 2mo
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Foster | Claire Keegan
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The Postcard | Anne Berest

“Tradition dictates that, on his wedding day, the groom must smash a glass with his right foot after the ceremony, a gesture representing the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem. After this, he makes a vow. Ephraim‘s vow was to erase the memory of his cousin Aniouta from his mind forever. But, looking at the shards of glass littering the floor, he felt as if it were his heart lying there, broken into a thousand pieces. “

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The Postcard | Anne Berest

“Lelia led me into her study, where she spends most of her time. The little room always reminded me of a womb, its air thick with cigarette smoke, its walls lined with books and filing cabinets and bathed in the pale winter sunlight that streamed through windows overlooking the Parisian banlieue. I settled myself beneath the bookshelf and the ageless objects on it, all those memories blanketed with a film of dust and cigarette ash, as my mother -

RowReads1 retrieved a black-speckled green archive box from among twenty identical ones. As a teenager, I‘d known that these neat rows of boxes contained the relics of our family‘s dark past. They‘d made me think of little coffins.” 2mo
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Untitled | Unknown
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dabbe 💙🖤🩵 2mo
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MAKING SURE OF SARAH: Mills & Boon Comics | Betty Neels, Kuremi Hazama
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Oh right! Here is me and Ryan Gosling 🤪😳😋🙄

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Living as a Bird | Vinciane Despret
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Generation Loss: A Novel | Elizabeth Hand
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Hi. Welcome to a new edition of “be glad your mom volunteers in a used bookstore.” I haven‘t read this series by her.

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dabbe Lovely. 🌸 2mo
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Adorable. Repost @Texreader Someday someone will tell me this isn‘t Tumblr. 😁

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Munkey Diaries | Jane Birkin
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Rip 🪦

TheBookHippie I‘m so sad. 3mo
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Compelling evidence has come along to support at least parts of her theory, leading others to also wonder if Gimbutas wasn‘t quite the fringe thinker she had been painted out to be. 😉 This turnaround came about not through any exciting new archaeological finds but because of a series of breakthroughs in biology. Back in 1984, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, had managed to retrieve and reproduce short bits of DNA taken from

RowReads1 a 140-year-old museum exhibit of a quagga, an extinct South African horse with zebra -like stripes on the front half of its body. Their research proved that with considerable effort it was logistically possible to study the complete sets of genes of long-dead specimens. The remains of other extinct creatures went on to be mined in the same way. Before long, scientists moved on to humans. Their efforts started in the middle of the 1990s with the 3mo
RowReads1 Neanderthals, a form of human estimated to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago. Then, in 2005, a team of researchers that included Colin Refrew reported that they had teased out genetic material from Neolithic farmers who had loved 7,500 years ago. 3mo
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Haunted Heroine | Sarah Kuhn
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Cathythoughts 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻♥️ 3mo
DivineDiana I‘ll be there with you! 😂 3mo
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🤬😤. “For some,the pushback against Gimbutas began to take a more bitter tone. In one notably caustic article published in 1999, the Classics professor Bruce Thornton at California State University described her work as being full of “fanciful interpretations and leaps beyond the evidence.A shaky edifice of question-begging,special pleading, unexamined assumptions, and circular reasoning”He took aim at goddess worshippers but also at feminists

RowReads1 and women‘s studies scholars more generally for entertaining theories that he believed were “religious at best and anti-rationalist at worst”Thornton ended by stating that the Enlightenment tradition of liberalism and rationalism had in his opinion improved women‘s lives, and that to turn on this in favor of prehistoric goddess myths, or to clam that a mythical past had been better for women, demonstrated “hypocrisy and ingratitude.” 3mo
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“But then, every feminist wave brings along its own notions of “female specialness,” notes Eller. This is understandable in societies in which women have been undervalued. It‘s a way of regaining a sense of pride and self-belief. For some, this is the lexicon of female empowerment.The cracks appear when this “specialness” proves to be another straitjacket, distancing women from what are considered to be “masculine” traits and defining “femininity”

RowReads1 in tight, prescriptive ways. Behind the “Mother Goddess” after all, is the archetype of the selfless, naturing women whose primary role is to reproduce and care for others- a set of expectations that doesn‘t fit all women and has proven a burden to many. 3mo
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“Goddesses didn‘t disappear entirely, but they did morph into more patriarchal versions of themselves. “Greek goddesses…now served male deities” as wives and daughters, Gimbutas wrote. They were retained by Ancient Greek cultures but faded into shadows of their former selfs. Now they would be subservient to powerful male gods, she argued, eroticized and sometimes rendered weaker.” “The Indo-European female figures were very naturalistic, weakly -

RowReads1 personified,” Dexter tells me. By contrast “the indigenous figures were very often Great Goddesses.Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, were among the Great Goddesses. Every Great Goddess in Indo-European culture was indigenous and had great powers that one could see were eroded with time.” 3mo
Becker Right up my alley. 3mo
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“Gimbutas had been raised on the rich folklore of Lithuania, on its fantastical tales of women with supernatural powers. There was the “Baba Yaga,” for instance, considered a witch in Russian folklore, whom Gimbutas described as a Slavic goddess of death and regeneration. In Celtic cultures, she wrote, women enjoyed a relatively high status and were known for fighting in battles. In many of the stories she collected,goddesses,witches,or otherwise

RowReads1 super-natural women were described as transforming into animals such as vultures, crows, or goats. The “Andre Mari” which Basque folklore saw as a prophetess, generally took on the form of a bird. “ (edited) 3mo
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“In the mid-nineteenth century, for instance, there was no such thing as an illegitimate child in the Seneca Nation, notes Nancy Shoemaker, an expert in Native American history based at the University of Connecticut. All children born to Seneca mothers were automatically legitimate citizens.”And there is no suggestion in the records that within Seneca society there was any social stigma attached to unmarried women having children,” she writes. -

RowReads1 But in the 1865 US census, Seneca women found themselves being forced by the American authorities to name their children after the fathers. Hemmed in, they tried instead to name them after their own grandfathers or other male relatives in their mothers‘ families.” 3mo
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