Tag: #rachelreads&reviews
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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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Books about Books
How to be a Heroine: Or What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much by Sam Ellis I have read this at least seveb times, it’s so addictively good, reading about someone who loves books so much as well as analyzing their influence, their subtle feminism and their failings. Of the heroines and the authors behind…
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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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Women’s History Books P5
Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics by Talithia Williams This book doves into a field that I have little interest but still holds amazing forgotten women that basically helped create theories that provide the basis for so many things we have now. Curtained into three neat chapters of The Pioneers, From Code-Breaking to…
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Fashion Forward Books
The Allegra Biscotti Collection by Olivia Bennet This was a fun book following a shy eight grader named Emma Rose. Her true passion is fashion, but not in a career sort of way, she just enjoys mixing and creating new looks, letting her imagination free. However, when a fashion designer sees her sketches, caught by…
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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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Historical Fiction Books for Kids
American Girls and American Girl: History Mystery, American Girl: Girls from Other Lands Series
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Superman Smashes the Klan Review
This was an excellent graphic novel based upon a little known radio play (at least to me) where Superman fights the KKK. Set just after WWII, Superman is fighting off the few Nazis who haven’t realized they’ve lost the war, and in doing so, comes into contact with kryptonite for the first time, making him…