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Show us your books June 2021

A light reading month, not for lack of desire, but because the bulk of my pleasure reading time is…
June 8, 2021
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Show Us Your Books May 2020

Book post day! One of my favorite bloggy days of the month. It’s another four-book month and that is…
May 11, 2021
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Show Us Your Books April 2020

Book time! I’m continuing to be gentle with myself w/r/t reading goals and such, but this is another four…
April 13, 2021

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Kimberly's bookshelf: read

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

Welp, that ended abruptly. The version I have includes additional short stories, which I thought were part of the book, so when this story ended, I thought the second half of the book would be the others' responses to ... the events that...

tagged: fiction, women, and own-ebook

We Should All Be Feminists

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

So very good. Beautifully written, and really hits home. It was refreshing to read about feminism in a viewpoint other than that of my white, middle-aged, ladyfriends. :) Every middleschooler should be issued a copy of it. It was supe...

tagged: nonfiction, borrowed-from-library, and women

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

tagged: nonfiction, history, and women

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