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nocowardsoul) wrote2019-08-14 09:34 am
nocowardsoul) wrote2019-08-14 09:34 am
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Reading Wednesday 8/14/19
What I finished reading
Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal. It wasn't really my thing, despite the fact I like other Regency-with-magic books. I did like that the hero has a traditionally female occupation.
The Girl with the Dragon Heart by Stephanie Burgis. A cute middle grade fantasy about a girl hired by the royal family to spy on a delegation of fairies.
What I'm reading now
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott. I knew Eleanor Roosevelt was a cool person, but I haven't read a full biography of her so most of the details are new to me. And Pauli Murray, queer black activist/writer/lawyer, was just plain amazing. She was the first black woman to be published in a law journal.
I was not previously aware of the Port Chicago Fifty or the 1942 riot in Alexandria, Louisiana.
What I'm reading next
I'm not sure.
Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal. It wasn't really my thing, despite the fact I like other Regency-with-magic books. I did like that the hero has a traditionally female occupation.
The Girl with the Dragon Heart by Stephanie Burgis. A cute middle grade fantasy about a girl hired by the royal family to spy on a delegation of fairies.
What I'm reading now
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott. I knew Eleanor Roosevelt was a cool person, but I haven't read a full biography of her so most of the details are new to me. And Pauli Murray, queer black activist/writer/lawyer, was just plain amazing. She was the first black woman to be published in a law journal.
I was not previously aware of the Port Chicago Fifty or the 1942 riot in Alexandria, Louisiana.
What I'm reading next
I'm not sure.