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Check in time for #LiteraryCrew ! Any thoughts to share on this month‘s book? Discussion on the 30th!

And, don‘t forget, if you are interested in next year‘s titles, voting ends tomorrow. I will view the votes and get the schedule put together hopefully before the US Thanksgiving holiday!

Repost for @Librarybelle
#LiteraryCrew: our next #buddyread title is this nonfiction book by de Courcy - perfect for#NFNovember! Discussion will take place on November 30th.
All are welcome to join! This is a low key buddy read. @Librarybelle posts periodic checkins during the month, along with the discussion questions on the last of the month. Please let her know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list.
2025 voting starting soon.

#LiteraryCrew : Our next #buddyread title is this nonfiction book by de Courcy—perfect for #NFNovember ! Discussion will take place on November 30th.

All are welcome to join! This is a low key buddy read. I post periodic checkins during the month, along with the discussion questions on the last of the month. Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list.

Thanks for the 2025 suggestions! I‘ll get voting ready very soon!

Repost for @Librarybelle

November‘s #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead is a first: a nonfiction! This is an account of the women who left Britain in search of husbands and adventure in India in the late 19th century.

Read at your own pace. I will post periodic checkins throughout the month. Discussion questions will be posted November 30th. Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list!

November‘s #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead is a first: a nonfiction! This is an account of the women who left Britain in search of husbands and adventure in India in the late 19th century.

Read at your own pace. I will post periodic checkins throughout the month. Discussion questions will be posted November 30th. Please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tag list!

And don‘t forget to submit title suggestions for next year!

Soft pick. I chose this particular book because I wanted to hear Boudica's story from the mouth of a woman who could be critical of sexist sources who used Boudica's story to further their own agendas. In a way, she reveals those agendas and some of their biases. But, for the most part, she simply retells their stories without too much criticism (where it was due). 1/3

Starting in 1982, Simon Winchester traveled to the remaining parts of the UK outside the British Isles, from Tristan da Cunha to #Bermuda to the Falkland Islands (arriving there at a very interesting time). Aspects of this book are super interesting, but the book is ultimately flawed by relying so heavily on the British viewpoint and ignoring that of the locals.

#ReadingAmericas2023

"In 1958...the circulation of popular stereotypes about the sexual and economic threat that West Indian men in particular posed, they [the Tory government] were able to leverage a type of media fiction about the problem that the growing presence of black newcomers posed for the white working class to justify the need for implementing migration controls." ?

Yeah, so, thank goodness that's no longer a thing! ?

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

"Africans were William Shakespeare's countrymen."

- 'Blackamores' have their own names in early modern England, by Onyeka Nubia. The first essay proposes that the appearance of Black people in the historical record should not, as is apparently the tendency, be automatically coded as slaves or captives, as the evidence presented is strongly suggestive of early modern English Black people having their own identity ⬇️

"It would appear that the main function of the British press is to PRESS down on those who don't think."

- From the 1939 version of the Manifesto Against War, issued by the International African Service Bureau.

Thankfully, things are so much different now ?