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History versus Fairy Tales

So my goal is to explain what resonated with me in the introduction to the Times’…
The 1619 Project in the New York Times Magazine

One of my goals has been to return to a special series in the New York…
Reading Notes, Ida: A Sword Among Lions

So I have finished Paula Giddings’ biography of Ida B. Wells, Ida: A Sword Among Lions.…
Reading Notes: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

I am halfway through this biography now, so don’t spoil the ending for me ;). I…
Origin Stories

I have been on something of a reading tear, binging on several novels that I had…
Don’t trust anyone over 40

As someone on the other side of 40, I only partly mean this title. I have…
Reading notes: Warcross duology by Marie Lu

During my December of reading, I especially enjoyed Marie Lu’s Warcross and Wildcard, a YA/SF duology…
Reading notes: Kathy Fish’s Wild Life

I have been lax about posting notes on my reading, though I did dedicate extra time…
Reading notes: The Fifth Risk

What is most remarkable about Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk is not that he makes us…
Reading Notes

Announcing in this quasi public space my reading goals and delays seems to have aided me…