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ManyWordsLater

ManyWordsLater

Joined May 2016

Raising two bookworms 🐛🐛 2025 challenge - 50 books. Non-fiction and rare book purchases only.
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Personal History by Katharine Graham
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A Country Doctor | Sarah Orne Jewett
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No computer. No internet. Guess I‘ll just have to read.

BookmarkTavern What a lovely spot! 5h
willaful You poor dear. 5h
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A Country Doctor | Sarah Orne Jewett
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I ❤️ Rebecca Solnit.

TheBookHippie So do I ! ♥️ 1w
ManyWordsLater @ravenlee 😲🙂😀😃😄😁🥰 1w
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Not quite #selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse but seems like a good time to learn more about thought biases.

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The Big Umbrella | Amy June Bates, Juniper Bates
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Lovely, simple book.

TheBookHippie I love this book. 2w
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Library says, “Hurry up! Read faster!”

Blurgh.

rwmg Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy your own copy?
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CSeydel 😳 2w
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Whoa. 😳 I‘m hoping those are just fines if the materials aren‘t returned at all… 2w
ManyWordsLater Just fines if the materials aren‘t returned. But I can‘t take out more books if the fines exceed $100 2w
dabbe 😱 2w
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Paused on buying this book so I could look into its bit more.

What do you think?

bookishbitch It sounds interesting. 2w
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Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan
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Bought this for the bookworms. I‘m tempted to read it to them. But I‘ll probably just cry the whole time. 😢🥺

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God of the Woods | Liz Moore
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Chunkier book than I meant to choose. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

BkClubCare Should be a pretty fast read. 😊 3w
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This book was initially published in 1989 but has some revisions from 2008. The discussions of gender strategies and the “myths” we create in our own homes to make the family work (or not) is rocking my world.

What myths have I created to justify how my family functions? Are they serving me and the rest of my family or should I rephrase my reality to better serve us all?

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

BkClubCare Yikes! You are playing right into thoughts in my head tonight! 🥹 3w
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Next up in my self-guided women and gender studies course.

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Vladimir | Julia May Jonas

I‘m at page 177. I‘m on the edge of my seat over the last 50 pages and reading feels akin to watching car crash. 😳🫣😳🫣

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Happy International Women‘s Day.

May there be a time when women don‘t need a special day or a month because they are always treated as full human beings.

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Vladimir | Julia May Jonas
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Vladimir called to me. Can you blame me? (Or the cover model?)

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Went out to buy paint. Oops.

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

BkClubCare 😂 3w
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Luster: A Novel | Raven Leilani
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What should I read next?!?!?!!?

Ruthiella I loved Luster. It‘s messed up but in a good way! 2mo
TheLudicReader I thought Vladimir was awesome. 2mo
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The Distant Marvels | Chantel Acevedo
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This is the kind of book you want to keep near you just in case you have a spare minute to read a page.

Balibee146 This sounds wonderful and is available to me with my Kobo Plus subscription yay. Thanks 🫶 2mo
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There are some heart wrenching letters in here. But the ones that got me were the ones that hit closest to home.

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❤️❤️❤️❤️

Kenyazero I loved this book. I found it randomly, maybe on a book go-back cart at the library. Those are often some of the best finds 📚 1mo
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The Distant Marvels | Chantel Acevedo
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I‘m taking these two on vacation with me next week.
Immigrant stories are really speaking to me right now even though I feel like I need to continue my women‘s studies course.

willaful A gave A Bintel Brief to my mom for her birthday, along with the new graphic novel based on it. Hope you enjoy!

(I'd think immigrant stories would be women's stories as well... perhaps an independent study?)
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Kimzey I have a copy of Distant Marvels on my TBR shelves. Looking forward to hearing how you like it! 2mo
ManyWordsLater @willaful I HIGHLY recommend you “borrow” your mothers birthday gift. 2mo
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Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I wasn‘t getting anything done at home. So I came to a local coffee shop for thank you note writing and some reading.

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Fair Play | EVE. RODSKY
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This book is a bit farther off the women and gender studies mark than I expected. But I‘m muddling through.

The documentary was great! Watch it with your partner!!

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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I was fairly indifferent to the work of the Gates‘ Foundation but now I have a new found respect and admiration for Melinda French Gates. I can‘t wait to se what else she does.

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Fair Play | EVE. RODSKY
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Bit of a shopping spree but no fiction!

🤪😜😜😜😬🥴

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Let's Take Care of Our New Dog | Nuria Roca, Rosa Maria Curto
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New dog, who dis?
No name yet. But welcome to the family, pup!

Texreader How awesome!! 3mo
Jari-chan Such a cutie 🥰 3mo
Ruthiella Hello puppy! 🐶❤️ 3mo
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dabbe Look at #dalittlefloof! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 3mo
Tamra So fluffffy! 😍 3mo
Deblovestoread #DogsofLitsy 👋🏼 pup 🐾 3mo
LeahBergen 🥰🥰 3mo
PaperbackPirate Congratulations! 🐩💙 3mo
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Continuing my self guided course on women studies…

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Mehso-so

Shine theory. I love it.

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2025 reading challenge:
50 books
Book buying limited to non-fiction and rarer books

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The Past Recaptured | Marcel Proust
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2024 wrap up:
41 books read
24 fiction
17 non-fiction
Favorites: More Work for Mother, Mother Tongue, Poverty by America, The Best of Everything

Ruthiella Nice work! 👏👏👏 4mo
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“To sincerely adopt the psychology of tokenism, you have to sell your own community out. That‘s the dark underbelly of the thing. Instead of blaming institutions rules and social attitudes of those around you for the absence of other people like you, you blame your own community.”
💯💯💯💯
also: I don‘t know why the picture is red.

willaful Litsy is commenting that this is communism. 😂 4mo
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‘Tis the season of reading all the short books to improve the year‘s reading stats.

Texreader Truth!!! 4mo
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The older I get the more I realize how much of my own culture has been lost to time in the name of assimilation and the search for safety.

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10/10.
Can someone tell Traister to publish an updated edition? I really want her take on the country six years later. Maybe she‘ll wait for the mid term elections?

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Please teach me about my anger.

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

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Why Look at Animals? | John Berger
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From the “pay what you wish” cart at the library. Going to give it to my dad.

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Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Tada!

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Come and Get It | Kiley Reid
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I really like “Such A Fun Age”. I hope I really like this one too. But the current 67% rating has me nervous.

I‘m also assuming that stories will never take place during 2020 again. Or at least for a long while.

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Good Material | Dolly Alderton
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IYKYK

danx I saw someone on the train reading this yesterday. Seeing this I‘m compelled to seek it out. 6mo
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I decided that I should own more of the women‘s studies books that I am reading so I can *gasp* write in them.

But I‘m going to return “who‘s afraid of gender” because I think I can find it used and I‘ll feel better writing in a preloved copy.

Could you ever write in a book?

#selfguidedwomenandgenderstudiescourse

JackOBotts I definitely could (hey #LMPBC & @suvata ✍️), but I often find I‘m pulled in and just want to read on rather than pause to pick up the pen. I aspire to annotate! 🤣🤣🤣 6mo
TheBookgeekFrau I find it almost impossible to read without pen in hand 😂✍🏼 6mo
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A+
Hard to return this one to the library. Even though we‘ve had it for months.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
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As of page 147: I do not like Cameron at all. But I‘ll finish the book anyway.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
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Will it live up to the hype?

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Wild Robot | Peter Brown
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Trying to convince the bigger bookworm that she can read this book.

Let‘s see how I do. 🤞🤞

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Menewood: A Novel | Nicola Griffith
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I‘m ready to be done with this book. It‘s literally too big.

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The Voyage Home | Pat Barker
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Went to the UK for the books and cookies.

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Now my TBR:

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It's Up to the Women | Eleanor Roosevelt
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lynneamch 104 years ago today! 8mo
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Here‘re the issues:
1) 2024 is about alternating fiction and nonfiction
2) I have a lot of books out from the library. Including a lot that have a lot of holds.
3) I‘m going on vacation should I focus on finishing the enormous book?

Which issue to do I prioritize with my next book selection??! HELP!!

Ruthiella I‘d go for bringing two shorter books myself. A week isn‘t that long and maybe you‘ll be doing other activities? 9mo
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“Cooking “ dinner aka hiding from the tiny bookworms.

Nicos If that‘s a beer then it‘s the perfect combo with a book 🙂 9mo
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