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“We must stop confusing bullies with leaders.”

Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

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Reading this book puts me in the mind of what I’ve seen on TV of going to one of those televised evangelical church sessions where you pay someone to slap you in the face to cure you of cancer, only instead of a conman trying to steal people’s money, it’s an intelligent woman giving me the words to express frustrations I’ve never been able to properly explain and it is so cathartic it almost  feels like an out of body experience. Plot (yes, I’m calling […]

Bridgerton with Politics, Fake Rakes, and Fern Hunts?

Falling for a Rake by Eve Pendle

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If you’re looking for a Julia Quinn-esque story that is more interested in the politics of the day, this is the book for you. Pendle is not one for ballroom scenes when she can take you to a workhouse or an impoverished farm. Plot: After losing a fiance to a tragic hunting accident she was involved in, Emily becomes obsessed with perfection to protect her family from even the possibility of a stain on her, and therefore their, reputation. After wronging a woman in a […]

Crime and the impoverished young woman

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime by Marion Chesney

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This was an odd little book.  It’s book number two in the Poor Relations series set in the Regency period, originally published under Marion Chesney, aka M.C. Beaton.  I didn’t read book one, and based on this, I feel I haven’t missed much.  The premise of the series is that several “poor relations” have banded together to run a hotel, which had done quite well but then there was a fire so  financial straits are desperate again.  They draw straws to see which one of […]

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 book has been kicking around for 30ish years and I just picked it up NOW?!

Possession by A.S. Byatt

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…and it’s been sitting in my own collection for a good decade or so? How did I keep stepping around this one? This book was written for me- or at least the me of ten years ago. DEFINITLEY the me of twenty years ago. 14-year-old-me would have swooned myself into an early grave with this one! A youngish academic is sinking further and further into classic British gloom. He’s in a dead relationship, putting in time in a dead-end job, researching crumbs on a long-dead […]



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