Favorite Feminist Reading
The theme for The F Word this month is your feminist book/film/music/site recommendations. Whenever I think of feminist book recommendations I always think of Sherri S. Tepper first. She is…
Continue readingBanana by Dan Koeppel
Why Book Blogging Is Not Like Real Life I work with someone who tells a story about the time her tall blonde friend went out to a bar wearing an…
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An Epic Battle of the Wills
To understand this story you must first accept the basic premise that I tell clients all the time when they ask why their dog does something weird – Dogs Are…
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Fitness Tuesday
Wednesday I did a 1.5 mile walk with Freckles. Then I got my new Fitbit in the mail. I had an additional 4,629 steps. Thursday Lazy day at the parents’…
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The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Every five years the pyramidal city of Palmares Tres elects a new Summer King. In the next year he dies in a ceremony designed to legitimize the rule of the…
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Victoire: My Mother’s Mother by Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé’s grandmother Victoire died before she was born. All that was left to remember her was a picture. Maryse’s mother, Jeanne, was a fierce advocate for education and strongly…
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8 Lee
On March 30, 2005, 110 people across the country matched five of the six numbers in the Powerball lottery. Of those 110, 104 had chosen the same wrong sixth number. …
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Adding Diversity to My Reading in 2015
My 2014 reading was overwhelmingly white. I have a plan to fix that this year. I’m combining it with my yearly challenge to read books set in as many countries…