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ronsboy67,
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4.5/5
@thestorygraph for "The Sharp Quillet" by Brian Flynn, book 14/15 for my It was my 14th, but in detection Bathurst is definitely no carthorse. 🤣 @bookstodon

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/db48e431-63a6-476f-a52e-ea089879c5b3

ronsboy67,
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SO disappointed that the pun in my post generated no response at all. Back to my books, I guess #AmReading #DeanStreetDecember

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classicmoviebuff,
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👉Exciting new volume: Feminism and the early Frankfurt School.

Αn original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were explicitly focused on sex, gender, and sexuality, and bring ideas from the early Frankfurt School into productive dialogue with historical and contemporary feminist theory.

https://brill.com/display/title/69331

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Signs of Hope
Messages From Subway Therapy

A deeply moving and inspiring collection of notes from the most expressive wall in the world.
In the days and weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Matthew Chavez showed up in the subway with stacks of brightly colored sticky notes. "Express yourself," he told passersby. The response was electric. Chavez turned an underground maze into a communal art space known as Subway Therapy.

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Some sticky notes' confessions from the Subway Therapy:

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John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in English history.

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Princejvstin,
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Today at the NOAF blog, author Bradley Beaulieu Dragons of Deepwood Fen gets the Six Books Interview treatment from me

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/12/6-books-with-bradley-beaulieu.html

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appassionato,
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Hollywood Her Story
An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies

With more than 1200 women featured in the book, you will find names that everyone knows and loves—the movie legends. But you will also discover hundreds and hundreds of women whose names are unknown to you: actresses, directors, stuntwomen, screenwriters, composers, animators, editors, producers, cinematographers and on and on.

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ergative,
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[Belated] DecRec is A 'Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry', by C. M. Waggoner. Again, it's something I haven't finished yet, but so far it's a delightful sapphic romp in which a street con artist joins a corps of wizardly bodyguard protecting an upper crust young lady from assassins. The plot itself is nothing special, but the narrative voice, with its linguistic playfulness*, is a delight.

*Dog-carts, for example, are misnamed, being drawn by horses and entirely unendoginated.

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dotsonapage,

@ergative @bookstodon loved this book! wish the author would come out with something new, she has such a fun voice.

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We Stand Divided
The Rift Between American Jews and Israel

From National Jewish Book Award winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reinterprets the past and reimagines the future of Jewish life.

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kamreadsandrecs,
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@bookstodon My of Rouge by Mona Awad is now live! Darkly beautiful and intensely bittersweet, this actually managed to make me cry towards the end. That is VERY much a compliment.

Full review here: https://kamreadsandrecs.tumblr.com/post/736752707724001280/title-rouge-author-mona-awad-genres-horror

ronsboy67,
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Simple things amuse simple minds: I "The Sharp Quillet" by Brian Flynn, book 14/15 for my 2024 and this passage made me smile. Dry understated humour (on the) rocks! @bookstodon

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Who's a Good Dog?
And How to Be a Better Human

A guide to cultivating a shared life of joy and respect with our dogs.
Who's a Good Dog? is an invitation to nurture more thoughtful and balanced relationships with our canine companions. By deepening our curiosity about what our dogs are experiencing, and by working together with them in a spirit of collaboration, we can become more effective and compassionate caregivers.

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Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era.

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AnnieTheBook,
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A hyperpolyglot! Flexible ethics! A ton of stalking! Learn more about Brooke Robinson's messy thriller, The Interpreter, in my review at https://abookishtype.wordpress.com/2023/12/14/the-interpreter-by-brooke-robinson/

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pussreboots,
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Five stars: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2023) is a novella retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The story was inspired in the process of writing a different retelling, namely, Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible (2016), written under the actual name, Ursula Vernon

http://pussreboots.com/blog/2023/comments_12/thornhedge.html

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Likewise,
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What’s a book you’d like to read next year, either a newly published book in 2024 or a book that you didn’t get to this year?

I’ll start:

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (2024 pub. date) & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not new 😉).
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MarianHellema,
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Me: looking forward to Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies

and many others :)

Lightfighter,
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@Likewise @bookstodon Just continuing my read through of what I call my, 'often quoted, never read', reading list. Finishing up Josephus now, probably going to move on to Xenophon next.

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