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Chelsea.Poole
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Of Boys and Men is included on Obama‘s summer reading list. I snagged this audiobook immediately, as it was new to me and I‘m over here trying to raise a couple of boys. At 7 hrs, it‘s a doable look at how men and boys are caught between two narratives: “the problem” or ignored by the left and toxic culture/manly man weirdness of the right. It‘s political but also focuses on policies that could help-like red shirting boys in kindergarten.

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BarkingMadRead
Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell
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mcctrish We could take the carriage but then I‘d miss my walking time FFS right from the get go it was doomed to fail but running into Mason was even worse than I expected 4mo
BarkingMadRead @mcctrish how did she get to be this age and know nothing about men?!? Ugh! 4mo
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mcctrish @BarkingMadRead nobody talks about anything useful apparently 4mo
IndoorDame Seriously! Why does nobody talk to their daughters about anything useful? And why hasn‘t this changed more? 4mo
IndoorDame I hate him so much more now!!! I was predicting she‘d stay completely clueless and he‘d just passively take advantage, but she finally had half a good instinct and good idea, and tried to act on it, and he‘s doubling down on his scheming and manipulation! 😡 4mo
Clare-Dragonfly For a minute there I thought Mrs. Mason was going to drag her away and Ruth would be upset but safe for the time being. But no, she just made it worse 😭😭😭 4mo
TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead half the teen moms I mentor have zero idea how they got pregnant … guess what they are…. Evangelical Christians 😵‍💫😭🤢🤬 4mo
TheBookHippie @IndoorDame Religiosity and control. Knowledge is power. 4mo
TheBookHippie @Clare-Dragonfly 😭😭😭😭 4mo
TheBookHippie @IndoorDame LOATHE INTENSELY 4mo
BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie nooooooooo 🙈🙈🙈 4mo
TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead makes me so mad. 4mo
Bookwormjillk It‘s a bookworm thrill to sit down on a Sunday and read a chapter that starts with a sentence about how lovely Sundays are. Too bad the chapter took a turn, like we all said it would. Also maybe if Mason would have just fed her a sandwich Ruth wouldn‘t have been wandering around on Sundays making bad decisions. 4mo
dabbe What makes this even sadder (IMHO) is that Ruth thinks she loves this man and willingly believes he'll take care of her. I mean, she saw him save a kid, he's rich, he gave her a flower and (so far) has acted fairly chivalrously. If it weren't for our omniscient narrator, I might be swayed, too. At least Tess loathed D'Urberville. Not that it saved her. #men 🙄 4mo
willaful Such an excruciating chapter! It's like everything conspires against her. :-(

@IndoorDame yes, he is absolute trash. 🤬
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currentlyreadinginCO Agreed @dabbe I can't stand the way in which she trusts this man, but I suppose that the narrator makes it really easy to understand what's about to go down here for even the most naive of readers 4mo
dabbe @currentlyreadinginCO Definitely not going to be good for Ruth. And we already love and care about her! 😢 4mo
dabbe @willaful @IndoorDame Pretty package on the outside, utter evil on the inside. 👿 4mo
Crinoline_Laphroaig Naivete of Ruth is so over the top. I find it hard to bite she has no concept of the social mores of the day. Also setting out at 2pm with expectation that you'll be home on time is just bad math. 4mo
Aimeesue A big part of Ruth‘s problem is her unwillingness “to oppose the wishes of any one.” Fine when it‘s your parents or people who love you, but horrible when it‘s someone who wants to control you or take advantage of you. 3mo
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GingerAntics
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kspenmoll Well, I was the 2nd class of women in a Jesuit college & had upper class men & some professors angry we were there. I was totally unprepared for coming from a coed high school. Needless to say it was a radicalizing experience when I went to grad school 30 years later, it was quite different. 6mo
AlaSkaat About 7 years ago I decided to take on a Carpentry course in College. I loved to build when I was a child. I thought it well suited. I was 1 of 3 girls in my class and what seemed like the whole place. 1 girl left soon after starting, 1 girl had a very tomboy attitude which I think was partly to try & fit into the space more. The amount of times I was ‘hit on‘ or made sexual jokes that were ‘funny‘ was crazy. > 6mo
AlaSkaat < I was looked on like I just woke up one morning and was bored so decided to take on this course. Rather than gaining experience like the rest of them. It was definitely a very uncomfortable experience. Every day walking inside felt like I should just run back out. I did eventually. And I regret not getting my pass because of missing the last few classes and tests because I felt like a fraud. 6mo
GingerAntics @AlaSkaat I contemplated that type of career. I loved building as a kid as well. I will admit that academia suits me better, but gender was certainly a big part of the decision making. 5mo
TheBookHippie OMG YES. We are not the same. 5mo
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HeartOfBabel
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A must for any man or boy!

From the perspective of a man living in the Western world, I recognize that initiation rites into maturity (for males and females) are essentially non-existent. Society has forfeited its role to government and the result has been none to kind. We do not have mentors, there is no great wisdom being passed down from one generation to another, but thankfully we do have a few select books that can at least point the way.

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Kshakal
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼😂👏🏻 10mo
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Born.A.Reader
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻❤️📚 10mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 10mo
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Megabooks
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This is a tenderly funny look at a bunch of middle aged men who gather each year to reenact the football game where Joe Theismann‘s thigh was snapped. Bachelder did a great job of giving each man a distinct personality in a very short space. I rarely read a book that gives a group of men such emotional depth. #roll100

Ruthiella I loved this book and I don‘t even understand football as a game. 😂 11mo
Reggie They were all so neurotic in here. 11mo
PuddleJumper ❄️❄️ 11mo
Megabooks @Reggie they were, but I loved it! 11mo
Megabooks @Ruthiella I‘m not a football fan either, and it was just so good! 11mo
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SarahDWriter
Why Men Lie and Women Cry | Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

Note: You can never fool a woman. They‘re just way too smart and plus, they have 5 sensors in their heads whereas men only have 3 (the kinds used to detect lies and read voice and facial modulations). Go figure.

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julieclair
Black Book | Robert Mapplethorpe
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DieAReader ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 14mo
TheSpineView 🖤🖤🖤 14mo
Andrew65 I really should try joining in with this. 14mo
julieclair @Andrew65 Agreed! I am really enjoying seeking out the poems. Plus… Points!! 14mo
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Sleepswithbooks
Black Book | Robert Mapplethorpe
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Photo Prompt Day #1: Black

Excited to read for one of our team books as well 🖤

#MischiefandMayhem #Scarathlon

PuddleJumper 🖤🖤 14mo
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