Books Read in 2009
Some backstory: I’ve started keeping a list of the books I read over the course of the year in 2009. Around the same time, I started writing down thoughts of some of the books I’ve read in a notebook. I thought I’d start off by posting most of these “reviews” here on bibliogrrrl. It…
Review: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Format: Paperback Published on: September 23rd 2008 Published by: Vintage Pages: 320 ISBN: 1400075270 Goodreads Like many people, I was familiar with the saying “well-behaved women seldom make history” but knew nothing about the author until I got to college. As part of a women’s history class, I read Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s books A…
Booking Through Thursday: Interactive?
Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme that asks a book related question. Participants post the answer on their blog and then comment on the entry. This week’s question: With the advent (and growing popularity) of eBooks, I’m seeing more and more articles about how much “better” they can be, because they have the…
Actually, @wsj, #YAsaves
The Wall Street Journal posted an article by Meghan Cox Gurdon attacking young adult literature caused a shit storm of a response over the interwebs. I feel like others have already addressed the problems with the article itself better and more eloquently than I could have, so I’m just going to suggest you read…
Review: This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
Format: Paperback Published on: December 29th 2008 Published by: PublicAffairs Pages: 288 ISBN: 1586486470 Goodreads I knew or rather heard stories of some of the realities abortion providers face: shootings, arson, attacks on clinics. Because the murder of Dr. George Tiller had not yet happened when I read Susan Wicklund’s memoir, This Common Secret:…
Let’s try this again: An Introduction to Bibliogrrrl
As I was messing around with bibliogrrrl, I pretty much broke the site and hat to start all over again. I guess I should know better than to try any fancy PHP stuff, or at least have everything backed up first. Hello again, I’m Joss. For full disclosure, Joss is a pseudonym; it’s the…
