Okay so this book was really good, as many of y’all have already noted on CBR. I won’t be saying anything new here — just adding to the recommendations! “Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don’t be afraid to leave the castle. It’s a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader” It’s the story of Libby Strout, a girl who was once called “America’s Fattest Teen”. She gained a […]
From Ada Lovelace to Marie Curie to Joan Jett
I borrowed this book from Overdrive as a Women’s History Month recommendation by my local library. It’s probably aimed at a slightly younger audience than myself, but I enjoyed reading it and found the illustrations just adorable. The author spends 2-3 pages on each of 100 women throughout history — their triumphs and failures, and why we should remember them. I would say I had heard of about two-thirds of them, which was neat because it’s always pleasing to find out that there are so […]
“If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance.”
I am a huge fan of oral histories, whether discussions of television shows or movies. And I watched The Daily Show religiously until Jon Stewart took his sabbatical a few years ago. So this book was definitely right up my alley. Thank you whoever reviewed it recently and recommended it to me! “The outlandish 2000 election and Bush’s victory had come along at the perfect time, helping Stewart, the correspondents, and the writers sharpen The Daily Show’s tone of bemused mockery. The next world-changing events […]
Hard to compete with a plagues, tbh
So I picked this book up after finishing Jennifer Wright’s fantastic book about plagues. I’ll never be interested in historical breakups the way that I am in plagues (who could be, really?), but I still enjoyed her writing style in this book like I did the other. Several other people have reviewed it, but in case you missed those — she basically picks 13 breakups throughout history and explains how a really terrible they were. Like, really terrible. It’s a pretty simple concept and a […]