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Uncultured: A Memoir | Daniella Mestyanek Young

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This memoir is heartbreaking and beautiful. This is such an important book for all Americans right now. It offers food for thought and important truths we all need to spend time wrestling with. We must witness the abuse, coercion, and harm in the past in order to prevent building the cults of the future. The only ones against this are the world-be leaders of those cults, so start reading and never stop.

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Uncultured: A Memoir | Daniella Mestyanek Young

If you know knitting.cult.lady on YouTube, you know why I‘m so excited to read this. If you don‘t, go to YouTube immediately and check her out! Yes, she knits in all of her videos. It‘s mesmerising!
#DaniellaMestyanekYoung #Uncultured #audiobook #readbytheauthor

Kerrbearlib I LOVE her videos! I have a copy of this book on hold at the library, going to go get it tomorrow! 5d

GingerAntics @Kerrbearlib it is so heartbreaking!!! Who could let these things happen to their children?! 5d

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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It | Adam Savage

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This is a wonderful look at into the work of Adam Savage. It‘s part memoir, part science, part shop talk. It was fun to hear him talk about creating. Even though I create in a much different way than him, I took a lot away from this lovely book. It‘s funny and uplifting, encouraging everyone to nurture their inner creator.
#AdamSavage #EverytToolsAHammer #ReadByTheAuthor

GingerAntics The subtitle made me a little nervous, but this isn‘t a book about thinking positive and more about creating whatever it is you create with wild, passionate, abandon. 2mo

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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs | Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger

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This book was even better the second time around. It‘s a wonderful, funny, entertaining reminder to fight the good fight. I can only imagine what he‘d be saying now if he were still with us in 2025. This book would never be read or taken seriously by a conservative audience, but it absolutely should be. If nothing else, this is a prime example of why conservatives are so afraid of history and historians.

GingerAntics Original Review: This book is funny and entertaining, but also so very important. It addresses some of the hypocrisy of modern conservative thought regarding the constitution along with the actual history on the subject. This book is most assuredly not for a conservative audience. 3mo

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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs | Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger

I enjoyed this one so much last time, I just need to read it again.
#EdAsner #TheGrouchyHistorian #ReadByTheAuthor

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The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans | Juilene Osborne-McKnight

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#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor #UnpopularOpinion #VERYUnpopularOpinion
Here goes nothing. Let‘s break some hearts!
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GingerAntics I should know better, by now, not to even bother with Irish-American versions of Irish history. These works are why I have never attempted my own manuscript of Irish history and never will. This is mostly mythology. She makes these claims that have little to no supporting evidence, but no footnotes or citations, so no way of checking her sources. This makes this book dubious as best and a racist at worst. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics Unfortunately, we jump almost entirely from the mythological history to the famine - where she claims the English weren‘t as helpful as they could have been but Queen Victoria was great. I‘m going to need you to show your work on that, sweetie, because the math (and currently available sources) aren‘t mathing on that. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics She claimed sectarian violence - namely The Troubles - was hundreds of years of violence, but fails to mention ALL of that violence stems from the English trying to capture Ireland as their own, while the Irish fought them off in favour of self governance (don‘t even get me started on her precious Catholic Church‘s role in that). Yeah, this was a uniquely Irish problem. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

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GingerAntics One could definitely NOT ask India, Jamaica, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, the UAE, Malta, Kenya, Botswana, the Maldives, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Zambia, or any number of other former Colonies of the British empire about such things. This is Ireland‘s (and the Irish people‘s) failing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics Not having the Bible in public schools is a “modern tragedy?” Really? Gross. Someone is a good little minnow muncher. I went to catholic school too, and I don‘t see any need to force my beliefs on others. Please be a little more Irish and extend the same courtesy to others. Thanks. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 3mo

GingerAntics I‘m going to need to see some credentials and some citations, because the modern history of Ireland seems a little screwed, and none of my academic sources agree with her on many accounts. I‘m so glad she works at a Catholic college, but I am tremendously grateful I have never had to sit in one of her classes because I read more accurate accounts of Irish history in Middle School. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3mo

GingerAntics I can‘t imagine sitting through 13 weeks of this drivel with a grade on the line. FIN … or perhaps Le gach dea-ghuí would be more appropriate. 3mo

GingerAntics I was once working on a paper in grad school where I found a scholarly paper claiming that the Irish people were now embracing Oliver Cromwell as a not so bad bloke… I had an Irish classmate who REALLY begged to differ and laughed at the paper because it was written by an English person and clearly had no clue what it was talking about. I thought of that paper when she talked about English aid during the famine. 🤣😂🤣 3mo

Bookwomble Whoa! Sounds like an awful and biased account! Thanks for your review. 3mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble the bias is weird, too. Sometimes it is in the Irish people‘s favour, and other times it‘s in the English people‘s favour. It‘s really weird. 3mo

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The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans | Juilene Osborne-McKnight

I‘m hoping this will be a nice pick me up to help me get my mind off of my total PTSD fueled day and that I get to essentially repeat it on Friday.
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Texreader Good luck with the rest of your week! I can sympathize; I have a quite awful presentation tomorrow to a client‘s all-men board of directors about the conclusion of a sexual harassment investigation I completed. And it‘s got all the gory details. And I do recall this being an excellent book. I need to read it again, but not listen to it. 3mo

GingerAntics @Texreader 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ oh my god, you definitely have a bad week ahead. Oof. I just have no words. I need a stiff drink just reading that description. You need a full on vacation and a mountain of books,.. oof hang in there. We‘re here for you if you need to scream or rage! 3mo

GingerAntics @Texreader I know the solution to these situations is less men and more women, but just like they say if you need your doctor to take you seriously to take a man with you… I hope you have a guy on your side of the table. Even if he just sits next to you on his phone… maybe throw in a tisk or a head shake of disappointment every now and then to accentuate your points. Seriously, why are men so gross sometimes? I just don‘t get it. 3mo

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Texreader @GingerAntics Today is over and fortunately the right decisions were made but this experience was horrible. Sadly the woman was more problematic than him. As the CEO he was responsible for her actions. She was a world-class manipulator and he fell for her and all her shenanigans. So I still have to clean up the mess they both have left behind. And I wanted to wish you best of luck on Friday. I sure hope you‘re doing ok. 3mo

GingerAntics @Texreader oof, that is always hard! It so does not help other women who are not also shady in some way in these situations. I‘m glad they made the right decisions, though. Friday should be better than yesterday because I don‘t have to go to my old floor and the site of my PTSD! Fingers crossed. 3mo

Texreader @GingerAntics yes 🤞🏻 And I agree, she is a perfect model for some men who think that‘s what all women are like. It‘s so sad. She called herself a princess in the workplace and she had everyone terrified of her. As secretary to the CEO she pretty much got her way for many years. And she felt protected from misconduct, even this time. They both think I‘m “on their side” because I‘ve been friends with them both but on Monday they‘ll find out. 😬 3mo

GingerAntics 😳 Uh-Oh… wow. Okay. Monday it is. 3mo

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The Brain | David Eagleman

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This is amazingly philosophical. It addresses the neurology behind in-groups and out-groups. It clearly lays out the ways perception is entirely inside of our brains, and even how by the time we are aware of any given moment, that moment has already passed. Eagleman takes a profoundly complex topic and makes it accessible to the masses to the point that it becomes entirely enjoyable.
#DavidEagleman #TheBrain #ReadByTheAuthor #science #philosophy

GingerAntics This could absolutely be a #DeadPhilosophersSociety read. 4mo

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The Brain | David Eagleman

I don‘t know why, but I‘m feeling this tonight.
#DavidEagleman #TheBrain #ReadByTheAuthor

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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder | Reshma Saujani

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I spent over an hour on social media, avoiding this book. When I returned to it, I still just didn‘t care. I just wanted it to be over. Then I realised, I could make it be over right now. So, it‘s over. It‘s not for me. It might be for you. I don‘t know. Maybe it would be for me at a different time. That time is not now, though.
#ReshmaSaujani #BraveNotPerfect #ReadByTheAuthor

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