April 2022
BookishBookClub past reads Public
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Image, Knife, and Gluepot by Kathryn M. Rudy
"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of …
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
5 stars
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the boundaries between criticism, biography, and …
sarah says: June 2022
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It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered …
sarah says: July 2022
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
3 stars
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? …
sarah says: August 2022
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Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors': A New History of the Shakespearean Text by Molly G. Yarn
The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men – most of …
sarah says: September 2022
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Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020 by Claire Battershill
This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of …
sarah says: October 2022
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The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell
For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of …
sarah says: November 2022
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Thanks for Typing by Juliana Dresvina
This collection uncovers the wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men. Revealing …
sarah says: January 2023
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Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University
4 stars
When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a …
sarah says: February 2023
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Book Clubs and Book Commerce by Corinna Norrick-Rühl
In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book …
sarah says: March 2023
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Once upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
4 stars
Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled …
sarah says: April 2023
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Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848
Charles Lamb’s library—a …
sarah says: May 2023
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The Binding by Bridget Collins
4 stars
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which …
sarah says: June/July 2023
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No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
5 stars
"Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her …
sarah says: August 2023
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The Robben Island Shakespeare by Matthew Hahn
During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the …
sarah says: September 2023
