The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier | 
For #weeklyfavorites, I‘m sharing the tagged book about divorce. This book was about women getting divorced in the 19th century and how hard it was for them to get divorced. I won this book from a Goodreads giveaway in 2022 and I finally got around to reading it. I enjoyed this book. I liked how it was written and I thought it was very interesting. I‘ve never read a book about this subject before.
pickHere‘s my review for a book I just finished reading from my #bookspinbingo list. I‘m glad I was able to get this one off of my list. This was a good one. I‘ve been enjoying nonfiction books that are written like a novel and don‘t feel dry. I need to find more nonfiction books that are written that way because it makes nonfiction more fun to read.
I‘ve been listening to this book all afternoon. I‘m almost finished. I have 3 hours left in the audiobook.
I just started this book. I like the way this book is written. It‘s really interesting.
I‘m loving this. I love nonfic that is deeply researched but also very narrative. This is about how South Dakota became a haven of divorce in late 19th century and early 20th century
pickThis book explores the four women that helped bring the idea and acceptance of Divorce into the mainstream conversation within the United States. These women's stories were rife with drama, gossip and beauty. It was so well researched and laid out in a way that makes the whole history acceptable. I want to take a trip to Sioux Falls South Dakota.
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pickI just love listening (yes, audio) to little/unknown histories. The Dakotas divorce laws varied from the rest of the US for decades and decades. With a steady influx of mostly short-term people showing up and residing in the state just long enough to become citizens and proceed with divorce, the back stories of these women are mesmerizing to me. I can't get over how it would have all broken down with such efficiency sans Twitter updates...
pickI read this the day that Roe v Wade was overturned, and it helped bolster my opinion that women will find a way.
Sioux Falls in late 19th c was a haven for women seeking divorce. Most states‘ laws were narrow in scope, but in the Dakotas, a woman only needed a short residency and had more grounds to choose from than back East. However men were terribly afraid for women‘s morality 🙄 and some wanted to require an act of Congress to get a divorce!
