October 2023
BookishBookClub past reads Public
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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. …
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
3 stars
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls …
sarah says: July 2021
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
2 stars
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? …
sarah says: August 2022
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Dangerous Books For Girls by Maya Rodale
Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives …
sarah says: February 2021
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Matchmaking in the Archive by E. G. Crichton
4 stars
Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always …
sarah says: June 2024
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Old books, rare friends by Leona Rostenberg, Stern, Madeleine B.
4 stars
You'd think a book about antiquarian bookselling wouldn't be loaded with suspense or keep us laughing, or make us shake …
sarah says: February 2022
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An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.
A linen sheet, …
sarah says: March 2022
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Image, Knife, and Gluepot by Kathryn M. Rudy
"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of …
sarah says: April 2022
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
5 stars
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the boundaries between criticism, biography, and …
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The Binding by Bridget Collins
3 stars
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which …
sarah says: June 2023
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Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors': A New History of the Shakespearean Text by Molly G. Yarn
The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men – most of …
sarah says: August 2022
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Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020 by Claire Battershill
This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of …
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The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance by Anders Rydell
For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of …
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Thanks for Typing by Juliana Dresvina
This collection uncovers the wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men. Revealing …
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Book Clubs and Book Commerce by Corinna Norrick-Rühl
In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book …
