so-soThis book is very well researched on England‘s new divorce law, court, and the people orbiting in & around it. Other reviewers have noted Mrs. Robinson serves as a model trope for victims of patriarchy and sexism. So absurd now that everything sexual was the result of a defect or disease of some sort. “Womb complaint”
IMO the degree of detail about extraneous individuals was a distraction from the Robinsons‘ story.
Recent acquisition:
📖 Wales: The First Place by Jan Morris & Paul Wakefield
#foodandlit May visits Bangladesh hosted by @catsandbooks and @texreader
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Random book from our home library:
📖 The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy
#FoodandLit May 2025 Bangladesh 🇧🇩
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so-soIt‘s not terrible. 🤷 It‘s not so much a history as it is a highlight of bookshops the author found interesting. Not a problem, but some of them were not to me. I also do not like the way certain historic events were worded. Eg. In the chapter about “radical” bookstores, he states that Eugene Debs (an American socialist) went to prison. No context. It makes me wonder about other facts he tossed around.
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I finished this last week but I‘m behind in reviews. Read for #MonthlyNonFiction it was also one of my April #Roll100 picks (#16 Any Non-Fiction). It was an interesting juxtaposition to read this book while watching random famous people try to pass themselves off as astronauts & having Nancy Drew solve a mystery with exploding oranges at Cape Canaveral. I remember being in class (college) in the morning when they wheeled in a tv & ⬇️
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