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Keeping It Weird

Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg

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Dear Ms. Limburg, Thank you for your book. Since my own late autism diagnosis, I’ve been reading everything by and about autistic women I can get my hands on. Your “Letter to the Reader” included a great list of books, some of which I had already read, or heard about, but many I had not. Books that teach me things are my favorite kind, and even before the letters proper started, you taught me many things. “Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail, ‘Three Weird Sisters’ by Meg […]

Tech Has Only Gotten Worse

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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Rating: 4 Stars In a nutshell: Author Wachter-Boettcher explores what is so very wrong with modern technology. Best for: Those interested in how horribly tech has gone wrong, and the problems that persist today. Quote that made me think: “When those values reflect a narrow world view, one defined by privileged white men dead set on disruption at all costs, things fall apart for everyone else.” Why I chose it: This has been on my to read list for years, and the audio book was […]

More Like A Collection of Art Pieces Than a Book

The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker

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Rating: 3.5 Stars In a nutshell: A series of very short suggestions for ways to reconnect with one’s self and the world. Best for: Those of us who may find ourselves easily distracted and/or hoping to focus more on what is important in our lives. Quote that made me think: “What, among everything you encounter, could be made better somehow?” Why I chose it: I spend so much time on my phone, multi-tasking, and sort of floating through life, and I was hoping this would […]

With Great Power Comes Great Hubris

Song of Spider-Man by Glen Berger

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Song of Spider-Man is the story behind the conception, development, and production of one of Broadway’s most famous and most troubled musicals: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Glen Berger, who co-wrote the book for the production, wrote this behind-the-scenes story while the musical was still running–but by the time the paperback came out, it had shut down after numerous performers had been injured and millions of dollars had been lost. I don’t really remember where I first heard of this book, but it’s been on my TBR for […]

Hyena butter and other scents

Who's Making That Big STINK?! by Darrin Lunde and Erica J. Chen

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While I was reading Who’s Making That Big STINK?! (as an online reader copy) I wanted to laugh at everything. The smells we learn about made me giggle (musk oxes have a urine smell that the ladies think is oh so fiiine), and the illustrations are clever such as the look on the tigers faces as they smell butter popcorn (I mean, can you blame them?), and then there is the the sea hares name (not to mention it looks nothing like the sea or […]

“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek

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When  I first read about this book in The NY Times Book Review, I knew I had to have it. Having grown up on a steady diet of  hearing about “Ragtime” and “The Girl on the Velvet Swing”, or how about how Clover Adams’s Memorial was on my mother’s must-see list, any book that covered any and all of that was something I needed to read. Thankfully, this did not disappoint. Stan and Gus covers the working (and potentially sexual) relationship of Standford White and […]



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