#Memoir

Okay, one more best books thread for the year - this time new(ish), non-Australian books, starting with two glorious collections of nature writing. MacDonald and Jamie are wonderful on nature
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My maternal grandfather Josef Meller was born in Vienna 100 years ago today. He took this photo of himself at his piano, I guess in the 1950s. He died aged
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The physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics.Image:
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Got Volume 1 of @BarackObama’s political memoir #APromisedLand on Wednesday, along with 890,000 others in the US & Canada alone https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/18/barack-obama-book-presidential-memoir-a-promised-land It i
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1] I am a proud follower of the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian.I want to share some of why, and some links for those of you who are serious about getting
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Very very wise, not least because this illustrates how insisting on one term for something can alienate the very people it describes. Women are not the Borg. We don’t all
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32 of the past 36 years, before TRUMP, BUSH/CLINTON was in top 3 Positions in US Federal Government: Some back story first: Prescott Bush backs Nixon - Nixon becomes President
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I've started reading for fun again So thought to do a thread on books I've read or I'm reading this year.First up, 'Comunion: The Female Search for Love' - bell
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Following the appearance of the photograph of Toni Morrison’s library, we decided to attempt a deep reading of the shelves. Hopefully, this is the first of a series to discern
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32 of the past 36 years, before TRUMP, BUSH/CLINTON was in top 3 Positions in US Federal Government:Some back story first:Prescott Bush backs Nixon - Nixon becomes President Nixon appoints
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Last year, the incomparable writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, went before the House to argue the case for reparations. He held the mirror up to America and showed its many contraditions, while
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Curious about the bias against women in sports? It's a complicated blend of sexism, misogyny, and the need for "men to protect women." In 1898, a Berlin doctor wrote that
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Book thread 2020 Book 1 - Essays on life, art and especially place - Hastrich writes beautifully about the little patch of water she knows and loves and on the
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Time for Christmas shopping 2020! So many good books were published this year, despite everything. Everyone should read Putin's People by @CatherineBelton, on the deep roots of Russia's current ruling
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It is legal for the government to sterilize people if they deem someone “unfit” to carry on the human race. There is a SCOTUS stamp of approval on it. Eugenics
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My past has included long and complex trauma and my present includes the fallout from that. I am vulnerable because of it, but so are many people and so many
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