Tag: #penguinrandomhouse
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Summer ReReads P2
In honor of International Women’s Day, I’ll go into another two of my favorite rereads with some great female leads. I shall start first with a very underrated series, The Hollywood Sisters by Mary Wilcox. Jessica Ortiz is so not on the trail for homicide. Not one bit. She is a self-proclaimed recovering shy girl…
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Top 5 S.A.S.S. books
Oh this was really hard as it changes depends on. . . I don’t know what really. It just changes. So this is just my top 5 as of now, but all the books are good and I reread them a lot. In case you’re wondering, there is not a lot of sass in this…
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Women’s History Month Books P6
Dynamic Dames by Sloan DeForest This is a great addition to any TCM or feminist library going into 50 iconic female roles from Jane Eyre to The Bride and the actresses that portrayed them, showing how their characters influenced and widened the scope of how women can be portrayed in film and make a difference…
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Mythological Books
The Book of Goddesses by Kris Waldherr This book contains 26 goddesses from around the world with gorgeous, meticulous illustrations of each. Detailing their origins, their powers and how each could help you in your daily life. Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen This book took a lot of references from above, so much so, when…
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Juicy Drama Series
I love a good juicy drama, backstabbing, high fashion, television, that’s how I got into reading and now I feel compelled to share it with everyone on the internet. Even as it painfully dates me to an early 2000s girl (the best era, let’s be honest), and most of these are from the now unfortunately…
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Women’s History Month Books P4
Femme Magnifique A Kickstarter funded graphic anathology of women, living and dead from all walks of life including Kate Bush, Octavia Butler, Rumiko Takahashi and more. I love the unique art of each and every one of them, and it is made more personal in that each author writes why they chose them and how…
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Women’s History Month Books P3
She Represents by Caitlin Donohue She Represents is a wonderful book written by journalist Caitlin Donohue that provides a brief bio, the policies, the controversies and quotes of each of the 44 women she highlights. I emphasize the journalist part because as she writes in the introduction she hopes this will serve as an introductory…
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Women’s History Month Books P2
Bad Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple This fun book gives a brief intro to the infamous bad girls of history from biblical figures such as Delilah and Jezebel to murderers like Lizzie Borden and Elisabeth Bálfory to possible innocents such as Tituba from the Salem Witch Trials. At the end of…
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Women’s History Month Books P1
In honor of Women’s History Month, here are some of my favorite nonfic books about historical and some present-day role models who broke boundaries and made (underrated) history.