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6d •
What are you reading this weekend? HF or not?
I'm reading our group read, On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and very much enjoying it! It's about a trio of Black women singers in the 1950s. You?
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I'll be reading The Practice of Not Thinking by Ryunosuke Koike for a book club. I am really hoping it teaches me how to do just that 😅
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7d •
What's your preference in HF stories?
Do you prefer stories centred on major historical events with significant historical figures as major characters? Or do you lean more towards stories about more 'ordinary' people who lived in the past? What's a favourite book that falls into the category you prefer?
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I like all of the above 😅 But especially little known historical figures who I should have known (like Z by Therese Ann Fowler), or an aspect of a famous person's life that I didn't know about (like George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo).
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10d •
Learned any history lately?
I didn't know (or I'd forgotten) about Dorothy Height, who was a quietly formidable force to be reckoned with, championing Black rights and women's rights. A truly remarkable person. Excluded at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height Went on to Become the ‘Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement.’ See How She Built a Movement with Women at the Center. What historical tidbit have you've learned recently?
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I spent July 4 reading about the 1950s, and I learned a lot. For example, I enjoyed reading about how Lucille Ball pushed for her show to reflect her choices, not those of executives. She insisted that her actual husband, Desi Arnaz, play the role of her character's husband, that her character be a regular housewife aspiring to fame (whereas the studio wanted her character to already be an actress), and that her real-life pregnancy show up on TV. Majorly ground breaking for the time (1952)!
15d •
Where do you go for book reviews?
As book coverage in newspapers wanes, I'm missing good, critical writing about books. I love the Washington Independent Review of Books (for which I sometimes write and edit), and sometimes LitHub is interesting, but I would love to find other places. What are your favorite sites? (Oh, and for community type reviews I like Story Graph, which is like Goodreads but so much better.) https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/carrie_c
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@Zena Ryder I didn't know that one, thank you!
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@Marie Powell I like reading book reviews just for fun, not for reading recs, so I'm glad to learn if that one!
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13d •
I’m starting our group read!
Our group read this month is On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. I’m starting it today. Anybody else started it yet? Our zoom discussion is 17th July.
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I'm about halfway through also - it's good!
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@carrie-callaghan-6359
Carrie is the author of the historical novels A Light of Her Own and Salt the Snow. She lives in Maryland with her family and four ridiculous cats.
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