BOOKS~BOOKS~BOOKS!!!

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by Jenn Shapland released Feb 4th

While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie—letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language—but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her.

And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, researches McCullers’s days at beloved Yaddo.

As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees how McCullers’s story has become a way to articulate something about herself. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories.

I had first seen this book mentioned in Oprah Magazine and can't wait to read it.

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I just came across an article about a book being released on January 20th titled Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer, and Secret Diarist. Not sure if I'll be ordering it or not.

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Originally Posted by homoe

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I just came across an article about a book being released on January 20th titled Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer, and Secret Diarist. Not sure if I'll be ordering it or not.

Update: I did not order it!

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

by Jenn Shapland released Feb 4th

While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie—letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language—but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her.

And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, researches McCullers’s days at beloved Yaddo.

As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees how McCullers’s story has become a way to articulate something about herself. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories.

I had first seen this book mentioned in Oprah Magazine and can't wait to read it.

I got it, I read it, I liked it.....

[homoe]

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism – by Kyle Chayka


It's not so much of a "how to" manual but more of an in-depth & history look at minimalism I would say.

I first saw it mentioned in The Week magazine Feb 9th issue.

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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Enrich, David



After hearing Rachael Maddow go on and on about this book and seeing her interview with the author last week, I decided to order this book earlier this morning!

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First Edition Romance: A Garriety Romance by Shannon M Harris



Ainslon O’Neil is co-owner of Turn the Page, the most popular children’s and comic bookstore in Garriety. Her life revolves around her business and family. Romance is far from her mind, until one day Lauren Millán, owner of C & C, walks into her store and commissions Ainslon to find a first edition of Mary Poppins.

A book about books, chocolate, and a budding romance between two women.It just arrived yesterday late afternoon but I'm already 100 pages in!

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Originally Posted by homoe

First Edition Romance: A Garriety Romance by Shannon M Harris



Ainslon O’Neil is co-owner of Turn the Page, the most popular children’s and comic bookstore in Garriety. Her life revolves around her business and family. Romance is far from her mind, until one day Lauren Millán, owner of C & C, walks into her store and commissions Ainslon to find a first edition of Mary Poppins.

A book about books, chocolate, and a budding romance between two women.It just arrived yesterday late afternoon but I'm already 100 pages in!

I’m going to check this out. Sounds good! Also if you have any other good lesbian romances to recommend (especially butch/femme ones) please let me know.

[homoe]

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

The inspiration and titular character of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is modeled after real-life ad copywriter and poet, Margaret Fishback. Lillian Boxfish author Kathleen Rooney offers us a fascinating glimpse of a woman who was far ahead of her time, taking to print to declare that she didn't need a husband to support her. Starting out as a school teacher, Fishback took on a job at the lower rungs of copywriting at the prestigious department store R. H. Macy's (today referred to simply as Macy's) but quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming chief copywriter. She was a highly paid woman in the advertising world of the 1930s, a time when the Great Depression firmly had its grip over the United States.

It just arrived yesterday, so hopefully I'll start it soon!