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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us | Rachelle Bergstein

#majicmonday @Eggs
1. The Genius of Judy by Rachelle Bergstein
2. The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith
3. Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

@birdwing @Gatita play along! 👋😊

Eggs Thanks for playing and sharing 🙏🏻 I‘m interested in the Alice Feeny 23h

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood

What is it about books about women written in the 1990s?
They are such push overs, so whiny, so boringly priggish. I am hate listening to the tagged at this point, mostly because I need 2 Atwood's to push down a bad man from my most read list. I am begging 1993 Atwood to give these women spines!! .

Ruthiella I looked at this book as an allegory and a riff on the fairy tale The Robber Bridegroom. It‘s been a few years but I believe Atwood made the three women intentionally frustrating. 1d

ChaoticMissAdventures @Ruthiella yes I read a few reviews that said it was fairy tale related, but goodness. What whiners! But I gave a thing against books written in the 90s, not sure what happened that decade (I was late teens early 20s) but I don't love them! 1d

BarbaraBB I didn‘t enjoy this one as much as I expected too either. My favorites will always be Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid‘s Tale (hated Testaments though). 1d

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BookedBeyondMeasure

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South | Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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They Were Her Property was not a light read. The title alone gave me a visceral reaction, but my need for confirmation pushed me on. Jones-Rogers makes it clear—white women were active, knowing participants in slavery. This book angered me at times. Sitting with that truth isn‘t easy. It deepens our understanding of American history!
Full review here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTJYnuiFA0D/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Women Talking | Miriam Toews

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On the 12th day of Christmas, I declare the best book to be...
December was a tie but since I've reviewed Wifey, Women Talking gets the nod here. Based on true events from the early 2000s where nearly 200 women of a Mennonite community in Bolivia were SA'd. This brief book takes place over two days where a few of the women meet up to discuss what they're going to do. The narrator is a male teacher in the community taking minutes, as the women ⬇️

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick don't know how to write anything more than their name, if that. I didn't know anything about Mennonites, and though the events here are fictionalized, I came away with a sense of the horrors these women must've experienced everyday, and not just during their assaults. If you like audiobooks, there's some singing at the end that made this feel special & sorrowful.
#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo 2d

TheEllieMo This sounds interesting and heart-breaking 1d

melissajayne @TheEllieMo it is heartbreaking 7h

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TheBookgeekFrau

Golda : Golda Meir - the romantic years | Ralph G. Martin

#12BooksOf2025

December favorite

TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo I bet that was so interesting! 2d

TheBookgeekFrau @TheEllieMo A ton more than I expected it to be! 2d

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ravenlee

When God was a Woman | Merlin Stone

My copy arrived! Naturally, it brought a few friends with it (and there are three more still on the way, and I don‘t even remember what they are). Komi is for the kiddo, and the rest…well, there‘s kind of a theme, isn‘t there? #bookmail is the best mail.
@GingerAntics I‘m ready!

TrishB They have to arrive with friends 😁 2d

ravenlee @TrishB it would be terrible for them to be lonely on the journey! 2d

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Leftcoastzen

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All | Laura Bates

#12BooksOf2025 November An eye opening read ,will be part of the permanent collection. Sometimes I wonder Laura Bates could go through so much to research this book.

TheEllieMo

TheBookHippie Her new one is so good as well!

The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny

TheEllieMo It‘s so sad that books like this are still needed 2d

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood

Listening to the tagged 🎧 #Canada and honestly not enjoying it much, but I am trying to knock someone off my most read chart so on we go!
My ARC right now is Martha Wells Platform Decay out in the states in May
NF = In Exile #Pakistan biography of the author's grandmother
Sunburn #Ireland in the 90s
And then hopefully to #ToB and #Lebanon

#Weeklyforecast

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