pickA young adult biography that serves as an excellent introduction into who Wharton was. It‘s a library book that I picked up to scan through and found myself wanting to keep reading. I liked that it's a nice efficient take that covers the essentials of Wharton's very complicated life. It explained a lot of stuff I was only loosely aware of or didn't know at all. #whartonbuddyread
January 2 #NewYearNewBooks ToyCover since I watched The Barbie movie I have to go with this. I love Barbie, I still have my original Barbie. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.
Maybe being broken helps you understand others‘ brokenness. Maybe being broken helps you become a better person.
There is something enormously freeing, I realized, about spending time with people who are totally unafraid to be themselves.
pickSurprisingly readable; palpably young author delivers history, facts and plans in an effusive, peppy tone. Reads as a modern, enlightened view of how society should talk about periods and menstruators and the necessity of robust policies and better access to menstrual products. 1/?
Fun fact!
Almost forgot about this readathon but here's my starting book's
Read: Period Power
Reading: Love in the time of cholera
#WinterReadathon
Thank you @Andrew65 😊
panI very much wanted to give this book 5 stars but there are major errors in chapters 1 and 2. There are A LOT of inaccuracies that could potentially cause confusion and harm for its target demographic. If a newer version addresses these errors, this would be a 5 star book. Read the comments for a break down of the errors.
- Wharton met her husband when she and her family were in a rush to get her married before their own financial problems became apparent. But she was always much wealthier than her husband.
- Wharton's marriage was happy until he started having mental health issues that were inherited, and neither understood nor treatable. The book suggests he had later-stage bipolarism. 8mo
- Her closest relationship was with Walter Berry, an American diplomat who she once expected to ask for marriage, but he didn't. Unmarried his whole life, he read every one of works before they were sent to publishers and was with her during most of her difficult times. 8mo
- She needed the money from her book sales, and she made a lot from her books. 8mo