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Finished this a while back & forgot to post about it. I read Knott‘s first book and loved it. This one took me quite some time to engage with but by the second half I was locked in. Knott lost her matriarchs - her mother and grandmother - within a short period of time and she writes of her unexpressed grief and displacement. This was a soft pick.

Thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa and #SheSaid for the opportunity to read this.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

Hello #SheSaid! How are you this week?

See you in the comments, please just drop in when you finish this week‘s section…

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I myself am a bit behind this week, so I will stop back in a bit and add my comments & impressions….hopefully if my phone stops ringing this weekend 😂 5d

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MallenNC I‘m actually on track for this one. I won‘t spoil (if you can spoil nonfiction) other than to say I was so impressed by her determination and the ways she found to use her voice and her writings to help herself and others. And the men in her life continue to be infuriating 5d

vlwelser @MallenNC same 💯 5d

vlwelser She encounters all these obstacles and just keeps fighting. She's fierce. I do feel so bad for her children to have been caught up in all of this. The husband is a giant douche canoe. Like let it go dude. But I guess it's hard to admit that you might be wrong. 5d

staci.reads I finally got caught up. I really enjoyed reading about the trial. It was a little reaffirming to see people rally around the bleaknesses and infuriating first half. I also have found it interesting to see the varied reactions of her children once she is released considering their father's ongoing campaign to turn them against her. 5d

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Singout

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

“Is there no man in this crowd to protect this woman?” Rebecca Blessing shouted, pacing the platform. “Is there no man? If I were a man, I would seize her!” But Rebecca was not a man, she had no power…[Elizabeth] was ushered to her seat, the train beginning to pull away, to bear her away from her home. But it was not just her home Elizabeth was leaving: her liberty lay shattered on the track, her reputation for sanity dead beside it. #SheSaid

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

Hello #SheSaid

How is everyone doing this week, slowly catching up? I know a few of you got the book later.

See you in the comments as you finish this week‘s section!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Me this week…the US is a mess. I am watching lots of news & doomscrolling….and reading lots of fluff novels as escapism. Then thinking how they would probably put me in an asylum for novel reading. 🥹 2w

MallenNC I think the author did such a good job telling this story. This week‘s sections were tough bc they showed the reality of life in the asylum. And I felt such dread for Elizabeth throughout! And yes, it‘s scary how much some of this still echoes today. 2w

vlwelser This book is incredibly detailed and while I appreciate that most of the time, I feel like I'm trying to rush through it. I feel so bad for Elizabeth and her babies. That husband is such a troll. And then he loses the job anyway! 2w

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DebinHawaii

Merry Month of May | James Jones

My May TBR is aggressive & already in progress. Lots of readalongs & challenges including:

#SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR #FoodAndLit #Bangladesh
#AuthorAMonth #ChildrensClassicRead2025
#RiseUpReads #Roll100 (6 books) #FictionalTraveler #ThematicCozies #MonthlyNonFiction
#JaneAustenThenAndNow plus some library books & a book for work.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, Soubhiville, TheBookHippie, Texreader, Librarybelle, Crinoline_Laphroaig, Ruthiella, Catsandbooks, TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper, julieclair

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3w

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3w

Librarybelle Wow! Good luck! 3w

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Ruthiella Looks fantastic! 👍 3w

julieclair Lots of happy reading hours ahead! 2w

Catsandbooks Great list! ❤️ 2w

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DebinHawaii

Aprilly | Jane Abbott

April Recap: A great reading month where I finished 20 books thanks to lots of commuter flights & airport reading.

I read books for: #SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR #LiteraryCrew
#AuthorAMonth #ChildrensClassicRead2025
#RiseUpReads #Roll100 #FictionalTraveler #ThematicCozies #MonthlyNonFiction
#JaneAustenThenAndNow #Naturalitsy & 2 from #AuldLangSpine ⬇️

I didn‘t finish Rabbits for LSFBC but hope to finish in May

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, Soubhiville, TheBookHippie, JacqMac, Librarybelle, monalyisha, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, Catsandbooks, TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper, julieclair, AllDebooks

DebinHawaii Favorites were: The Briar Club, The Spellshop, Challenger Where They Last Saw Her & The Land of Little Rain. I read 3 audiobooks, 4 non-fiction & 12 were library books. (edited) 3w

Ruthiella Nice work! 👍 3w

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 3w

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Librarybelle You did so well! 3w

TheSpineView Great job! 3w

PuddleJumper Amazing! 🎉🎉 3w

AllDebooks Wow, well done. That's a very broad range of reads x 3w

Crinoline_Laphroaig 👏🏻 3w

CoverToCoverGirl Great month! 📖 3w

julieclair Incredible month! Well done you! 3w

JacqMac Wow! Spectacular reading month. 2w

Catsandbooks Fantastic! 🎉 👏🏼 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

Hello #SheSaid!

How are you all this weekend?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa This book is infuriating, but well written and easily readable. And so much of it seems like things still important today. We still seem to call any woman with an opinion “crazy”, and based on elections in the US, women with opinions are still seen as odd, unnatural even 🤦‍♀️and should vote with their husbands 🫠, and now the new SAVE Act 🙄. Interesting to me how some of the impetuous for this was different opinions on slavery. 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 3w

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MallenNC I have meant to read this one since it came out but I knew it would make me so mad. It‘s very well written. I like that is narrative nonfiction, which is so much easier for me to follow. It‘s infuriating. And definitely relevant for today. 3w

vlwelser I'm running slightly behind on the reading but so far this is intensely frustrating 3w

TheKidUpstairs Like @vlwelser I'm a little bit behind, about half way through Part 1. But so far, I love the writing style, her narrative style engages you right from the start. Like everyone else, I find it so infuriating, and like @MallenNC pointed out it is unfortunately quite relevant for today, as we see so many politicians and political influencers trying to push us back to these times. cont'd in next comment 3w

TheKidUpstairs I especially appreciate that, while the book is very much focused on Elizabeth and her story, Moore has brought in larger context with regards to sexism and racism in the medical profession, and the looming civil war. 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @TheKidUpstairs yes…when the neutral parties were no help section at the train station, I could not help thinking of our current times. 3w

ncsufoxes I‘m about halfway through part 1 & agree with everyone else about the writing style. It is infuriating to see how some ideas about women have not changed…women & anything to do with their anatomy & functions. As well as women thinking or speaking out. At least we can‘t be locked away today for “novel reading.” 3w

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MallenNC

The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Timeless Story of One Woman's Journey to Be Heard | Kate Moore

We would all be in trouble. I keep thinking about this passage from this month‘s #SheSaid book.

Julsmarshall Oh dear. 3w

tpixie This was a fascinating book. It made me wonder about Rochester‘s ‘crazy‘ wife in the attic….

Jane Eyre ( Full Edition ): : Jane Eyre by Bronte Charlotte

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MallenNC @tpixie It‘s such a good book. I liked her previous one, Radium Girls as well. It is infuriating the control men had over their wives and daughters during this time. 3w

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tpixie @MallenNC I still need to read Radium Girls, but I bet it‘s good! Yes! 😡 3w

MallenNC @tpixie Radium Girls is great. It will make you angry too but it‘s well told. 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tpixie right! I‘ve always wondered. There needs to be a book from her POV 3w

tpixie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa yes! 3w

tpixie @MallenNC 🩵🩷🩵 3w

Suet624 This book made me so angry. 3w

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willaful

Untitled | Untitled

Can someone remind me of the title of the book we read for #SheSaid about how neighborhoods closed down swimming pools and public areas rather then desegregating them?

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TheBookHippie I didn‘t read with you but I think you mean this one

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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willaful @TheBookHippie Yes, thank you!
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TheBookHippie @willaful ♥️ 3w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa It might have been in here too

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Nope, just looked. TheBookHippie is correct 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I was just looking at the list of books removed from the military library… The Sum of Us is on the list

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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willaful @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 🤬 3w

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Suet624

Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott

Is there anything better than opening up your mailbox and finding that the only things in it are books?!!!

Thank you to @Karisa for forwarding the tagged book to me so that I could read the #SheSaid selection and thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for organizing the transfer.

TheSpineView Book mail!!! ❤️📕📪 3w

Suet624 @TheSpineView there are still good things happening in this disappointing world. 😊 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa That really is the best! Book Mail! 3w

Karisa 👏👏🥳🎉 3w

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