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One Life

One Life by Megan Rapinoe

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Megan Rapinoe has lived an amazing life, and she documents it in a way that it feels like she’s having a conversation with you in her autobiography, One Life. The book goes through her childhood, learning to play soccer, going to college, making the US Women’s Junior and then National teams, and then kicking butt and winning the World Cup. She also talks about her decision to kneel before games while the Anthem plays. What I love about her (I tried to lobby to get […]

Royal Harlot by Susan Holloway Scott

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Barbara Villiers Palmer was a nineteen-year old newlywed when her husband, Roger Palmier and his group of fellow-conspirators sent her to Brussels with a message to the king-in-waiting, Charles Stuart, and a fortune of gold coin sewn into the hem of her dress.  Witty and reckless and a renowned beauty, she immediately caught the eye of the much older king, and it was mutual attraction immediately.  She became his mistress and held that position for a turbulent decade.   The Puritan regime of Cromwell was […]

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When enough is enough – you can’t keep it on the inside anymore.

Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

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I hadn’t heard of the ‘eggshell skull’ principle before – it’s a legal doctrine that says a defendant must ‘take their victim as they find them’. For example if you swing a punch at someone and they die because they have a thin skull, you can’t use that to excuse ‘just a punch’. In the case of Bri Lee, a once defenseless victim becomes a strong accuser who knows the system and is determined to navigate a path to justice. This memoir begins as the […]

out of the way, Mr. Hughes. Let the real stars shine.

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth

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You’ve seen The Aviator, yes? If not, maybe you know that it’s about Howard Hughes? Yes- the Spruce Goose guy. Yes, the keep on failing upwards guy. Yes, the “keep your pee in jars” guy. We’ve all heard or seen at least a little bit about Howard Hughes. His reach was wide and heavy, and he swept away businesses, careers, and entire studios in his wake. Karina Longworth, author of Seduction and podcaster extraordinaire, covered Howard Hughes’s Hollywood during a whole season of her phenomenal podcast a […]

This was not the book I was looking for.

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married by Nancy Rubin Stuart

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I had such hopes for this one, but alas it was not to be. It should be said that this is a review of a DNF, I read enough to know what wasn’t working for me but with the due date at the library’s arrival I had to give it back and I don’t miss it. Proceed with that knowledge, because I’m probably going on a little bit of a rant here. Here we go: I am so freaking tired of women’s stories being told […]



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