August 2020
BookishBookClub past reads Public
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone Ph.D.
What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 …
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What a Library Means to a Woman by Sheila Liming
When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided …
sarah says: September/October 2020
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Bluffing Texas Style by Michael Vinson
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” …
sarah says: November/December 2020
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Dispossessed Lives by Marisa J. Fuentes
5 stars
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a …
sarah says: January 2021
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Dangerous Books For Girls by Maya Rodale
4 stars
Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives …
sarah says: February 2021
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some …
sarah says: June 2021
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Natural Enemies Of Books by M. Fanni, M. Flodmark, S. Kaaman
4 stars
The Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought …
sarah says: April 2021
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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry (Asia - Local Studies/Global Themes)
5 stars
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators …
sarah says: May 2021
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
3 stars
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls …
sarah says: July 2021
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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
3 stars
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
sarah says: August 2021
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Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom
4 stars
There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would you …
sarah says: October 2021
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Eat My Words by Janet Theophano
Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat …
sarah says: November 2021
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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden
4 stars
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction -- and surprising …
sarah says: January 2022
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Old books, rare friends by Leona Rostenberg, Stern, Madeleine B.
4 stars
You'd think a book about antiquarian bookselling wouldn't be loaded with suspense or keep us laughing, or make us shake …
sarah says: February 2022
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An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.
A linen sheet, …
sarah says: March 2022
