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John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
The book was first published in April 14, 1939. The book won the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize for fiction, & it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]."
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https://open.substack.com/pub/mahoneyj/p/the-writers-job-adventures-in-management?r=1wgmq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The Writer's Job, Adventures in Management, Review of Cherry Whip, and Small Press United
If I be waspish, best beware of my subtitle ~As You Like It (sort of)open.substack.com
Happy launch day to my dear friend and coauthor @jesse and thanks to the @themitpress team for all the support.
Buy it here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/
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Book Details - MIT Press
MIT Press - Book DetailsThe MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I also decided to announce my theme for NEXT year... mostly because it will take a whole lot of reading to pull it off :)
Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2024/05/2024-to-z-challenge-reflections-and.html
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via https://mastodon.social/@everylibrary/112360914563795430
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier - by April White
This book needs to be a high budget HBO show.
At the end of the 19th century, Sioux Falls was known for its lax divorce laws: if someone resided there for 90 days, they could file for divorce. The town's main hotel fast became a "divorce colony" of desperate women (and some men) and their own private dramas.
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - by Svetlana Alexievich
Alexievich is a Nobel Laureate mostly known for "Voices from Chernobyl", but her other books are great too. In this one she interviewed hundreds of women who fought in WWII in the Soviet army, or as partisans.
This one a difficult read, with a lot of dark stories. But it is very much worth reading.
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Dorothy Parker: What fresh hell is this? - by Marion Meade
I really enjoyed the collection of Dorothy Parker's short stories, so I decided to read her biography. It was fascinating and often amusing, although in a slightly different way than I'd expected.
Dear Dorothy was a hot mess. In all the best and worst ways possible.
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A huge part of the book is about Palamedes, the Greek hero who got himself completely written out of the Iliad.
For dissing Odysseus too much.
No wonder Odysseus was pissed, there are some great one-liners in there :D
Oh, and the guy invented writing, numbers, and dice. In case you needed a #pagan patron of #DnD players.
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The fossil hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World - by Shelley Emling
This is a biography of pioneering paleontologist and fossil hunter Mary Anning, who is credited with discovering the first complete ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons. Her discoveries contributed a lot to the science of paleontology - and her life was fascinating in all kinds of ways.
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - by Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole was a Jamaican woman, trained in medicine by her doctor mother. She wanted to join Florence Nightingale in nursing soldiers during the Crimean War, but she was not accepted. So instead, she traveled to the front on her own and put up an inn where she made food and sold drinks, and regularly walked to the trenches to tend to the wounded.
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I just decided that I'll do another reading challenge - reading 26 epics about women.
And yes, I already have a list. 26 traditional epics with female protagonists from around the world.
Hopefully a year will be enough to read all of them 😄
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The lady and the octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology - by Dana Staaf
A colorful, fascinating book about the French scientist (1794–1871) who invented aquariums. We learn about her experiments in Italy, her inventions to make observations easier, and ther theories about the age-old mystery of the paper nautilus and its self-grown shell.
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The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
Le Brun (1755–1842) was a painter whose works still hang in galleries around the world, including the British National Gallery & the Louvre. She was the portrait painter of Marie Antoinette before she fled to Italy and then to Russia from the Revolution, leaving an abusive husband behind.
Her memoirs are entertaining and witty, showing a glimpse at the life of a remarkable woman.
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The lady and the sharks - by Eugenie Clark
A fun memoir by the famous ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, best known for her work with sharks. I loved reading her memories of establishing a research center, designing experiments to test shark intelligence, and diving in all kinds of places (including sink holes). Also, the details of raising children as a marine scientist.
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis - by Kim Todd
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a scientific illustrator and naturalist, still known today for her wonderful illustrations of the life cycle of butterflies and other insects. She was the first to draw them in context of their food plants, observing the process of metamorphosis.
The book traces her life and travels, in Europe and in South America.
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The Search for Omm Sety - by Jonathan Cott
Dorothy Eady fell down the stairs when she was 3 and woke up with memories of her previous life in Ancient Egypt as the lover of Pharaoh Seti I.
She didn't stop there: she threw herself into studying hieroglyphics, moved to Egypt, and became an expert of its history and culture.
Regardless of whether you believe in reincarnation, she was a fascinating, witty woman worth reading about.
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary - by Anita Anand
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was the daughter of the last Maharaja of the Punjab, born and raised in England as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. The book traces Sophia's life and that of her siblings, seeking their place between two worlds. Sophia became a suffragist, standing up for women's rights, and caring for war victims, displaced workers and children.
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris - by Asti Hustvedt
The book explores the lives of 3 women - Blanche, Augustine, Genevieve - who were hospitalized in 19th century Paris with "hysteria". They became famous case studies for Jean-Martin Charcot and his theories of neurology. The book discusses who these women were, what they might have suffered from, and how they were framed as victims or frauds depending on the agendas of others
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Portrait of Myself - by Margaret Bourke-White
Autobiography from a pioneering photographer who was present, camera in hand, for several important moments of the 20th century. Like honestly, this woman was everywhere, from Black Tuesday to WWII to Gandhi's death. She also writes passionately about industrial photography, which I never thought I'd care about.
Plus she kept alligators on her balcony in the Chrysler Building.
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A warrior of the people: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor - by Joe Starita
In 1889, Susan La Flesche became the first Native American doctor to earn a western medical degree. She spent the rest of her life working for her community and standing up for equality. The book tells her life story, that of her family, and that of American women in medicine.
#WomensHistoryMonth #women #books #bookstodon #Indigenous
Ada Blackjack: A true story of survival in the Arctic - by Jennifer Niven
Ada was an Iñupiaq woman who joined an arctic expedition in the 1920s. The expedition got stranded on Wrangel Island, and slowly all the (somewhat foolishy unprepared) explorers died or disappeared, leaving Ada to fend for herself for almost two years. She survived, and the book uses her diary among other sources to tell her story.
#WomensHistoryMonth #Indigenous #books #bookstodon #nonfiction
The Five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper - by Hallie Rubenhold
In this fascinating book the author researches the lives of Jack the Ripper's five victims. She does so to reframe the whole narrative: why are libraries written by the criminal, but nothing about the women who died? Why is there so much misinformation about who they were and how they lived?
Surprisingly detailed and touching book.
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My great, wide, beautiful world - by Juanita Harrison
Juanita Harrison (1887-1967) was an African-American woman who published her travel memoirs in 1936. She spoke several languages and was determined to see all kinds of interesting places and meet interesting people. She took on various jobs along the way to finance her journeys.
I love this book because it is cheerful and funny and filled to the brim with love for life. Also, best title ever.
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Elizabeth Quinn https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/07/the-magic-of-audiobooks-deep-down-we-still-long-to-be-read-to #books #audiobooks #reading
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https://www.amazon.com/Sparks-Chinas-Underground-Historians-Battle/dp/0197575501
Um let's see
I'm reading a book about underground historians in modern day China (Sparks) for a reading challenge
I'm reading Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett for a book club
I'm reading the poem a day book by @brianbilston
I'm reading The flowering wand by Sophie Strand in the evenings because it's enchanting
I'm reading Apollodorus' Library for research
Yes I can keep them straight
I'm a bit book promiscuous?... 😅
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https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air."
Ulysses, First lines, Ch. 1: Telemachus
~James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)
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Ulysses by James Joyce
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
https://popular.info/p/pressed-by-moms-for-liberty-florida
Apart from the #education & #censorship issues here, & the "liberty" of a minority to dictate what everyone else can see, there's a #copyright issue. But it seems that the school hand-drew clothing on the book pages (which is lawful under #FirstSale) & did not reprint copies with altered images (which would be infringement).
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Pressed by Moms for Liberty, Florida school district adds clothing to illustrations in classic children's books
Since its initial publication in 1970, millions of children have read In The Night Kitchen, the classic picture book by celebrated author Maurice Sendak.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
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