October 2023
BookishBookClub past reads Public
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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
3 stars
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. …
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The Networked Wilderness by Matt Cohen
In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information …
sarah says: November 2023
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Cut/Copy/Paste by Whitney Trettien
How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London …
sarah says: January 2024
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Reading the romance by Janice A. Radway
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's …
sarah says: February 2024
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Forgotten readers by Elizabeth McHenry (New Americanists)
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as …
sarah says: March 2024
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Revolution in Type by Ayelet Brinn
A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish …
sarah says: April 2024
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Matchmaking in the Archive by E. G. Crichton
4 stars
Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always …
sarah says: June 2024
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
4 stars
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to …
sarah says: July 2024
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
4 stars
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. …
sarah says: August 2024
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Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps by Annie Atkins
Although graphic props such as invitations, letters, tickets, and packaging are rarely seen close-up by a cinema audience, they are …
sarah says: September 2024
