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Show us your Books: March 2019

Another month, another Show us your Books post. I’m doing well with my goal, thanks to daylight rides home…
March 12, 2019
Reading
Show us your Books: February 2019

Happy Show Us Your Books day! I’m off today so I get to actually write this on the day…
February 12, 2019
Reading
I mean, Julie & Julia was a thing, right?

One of the books I read in January was Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1933 book “It’s Up to the Women” which…
February 9, 2019

I've been blogging for over 16 years and I'm apparently one of the few over-40 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun and unprofitable. No big.

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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