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Up in the Air

Fly Girl by Ann Hood

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart

February 5, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

I got approved for two books about flight attendants one right after another on NetGalley – so all of you must cope with a themed double post from me. Fly Girl – 3.5 stars Ann Hood became a flight attendant at TWA in 1978 and worked there for many years. In this book, she recounts the places she saw and the people she met, and how the shifting culture of air travel at the time affected her and her job. I do like to travel, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, #memoir, airplane, Ann Hood, ARC, feminism, labor unions, Nell McShane Wulfhart, NetGalley, popsugar, travel, work

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, #memoir, airplane, Ann Hood, ARC, feminism, labor unions, Nell McShane Wulfhart, NetGalley, popsugar, travel, work ·
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“the potential of nothing is everything”

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

January 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

This book sat on my bedside table for six months. I looked at it every day, tucked it into my work bag on multiple occasions, and brought it with me on several trips but I was unable to open the cover. I was paralyzed by the guilt of being wrapped into the attention economy, and I did not feel like I was ready or able to give my meager time to “nothing” quite yet. I was wrong. I wish I had cracked it open the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: activism, art, attention, behavior science, community, ecology, grassroots, Jenny Odell, labor unions, refusal, resistance, technology

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: activism, art, attention, behavior science, community, ecology, grassroots, Jenny Odell, labor unions, refusal, resistance, technology ·
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