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kricheal
War | Bob Woodward
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Starting this next!

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BC_Dittemore
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Panpan

Schweikart bases his arguments on the assumption that pre-college students are actually interested in history and that they have enough grasp of language to process implicit bias.

More than half the “lies” are the most random things that were marginally, if ever, in any textbooks I had.

What I appreciate about this book is the window it has given me to fallacious conservative arguments.

Bro should chill on the exclamation points!!

BC_Dittemore Oh! My favorite Lie: Native American‘s Were Great Environmentalists. Here Schweikhart argues that the ultimate reason for Indian decimation was their own lack of environmental awareness 🙄. 21h
Dilara @BC_Dittemore The bad faith is breathtaking! 14h
BC_Dittemore @Dilara it literally is. Plenty of times where I had to just stop and gather my breath to push on. 5h
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heyitsMacall
A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson
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Pickpick

I liked this little story! I appreciate when people appreciate nature; I should get out more when it‘s not icy. Extra credit for finding this in a little free library and gifting it to a friend.

A totally unrelated bookmark but the PNW does have woods so 🤷🏽‍♀️

Suet624 I read this years ago and I still laugh when I think of his friend hanging upside down in his car. 6d
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Tamra
Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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Eye opening in so many ways! 😲 I have mixed feelings about Bella and some of her decisions. Ultimately, they cost her dearly and the question is whether it was worth it.

The weird thing is no mention is made of whether & what Belle liked to read recreationally! It appears her real passion was collecting & organizing & preserving treasures.

My only quibble with the book is it‘s a bit long in the detail at times. #Europacollective

Tamra I can tell Belle is going to be a burr under my saddle for a while as I digest & wrestle with her. It‘s been a good historical point of discussion with my daughter. Will be adding the Morgan library to my wish list. I was a bit surprised at the admission price, given the mission of the library. It would be cost prohibitive to many. (edited) 6d
Tamra I want to know what JP Morgan would have done or how he would have felt had he found out her secret. He was so attached to her. His son though? The way he was described it‘s hard to believe he wouldn‘t have sacked her. 6d
Ruthiella I have known librarians who don‘t care about the book content-it‘s the catalog organization they care about. 6d
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Tamra @Ruthiella why do I think that is odd??? 6d
Ruthiella @Tamra Because we LOVE books! 😂 6d
Tamra @Ruthiella 😂😂 Good answer! 6d
LeahBergen I became fascinated by her after visiting the Morgan! 6d
Tamra @LeahBergen that must have been fun! She‘s a complicated person. 6d
jlhammar You finished! It‘s a long one. Good so far though. I‘m starting my holiday break soon so hope to finish yet this week. 6d
Tamra @jlhammar it is long, but obviously meticulously researched. 😁 Yay for a holiday break! 6d
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dabbe
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TheSpineView Lovely 1w
dabbe @TheSpineView 💚💚💚 1w
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Tamra
Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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Learn something new every day they say! Well, I‘ve been informed by my teens we celebrate what is commonly referred to as a “tacky Christmas.” 🤣

Definitely NOT in keeping with Morgan & Greene standards. Our decorations aren‘t matchy or themed. Wait, I guess the theme IS tacky.

Again the 💵 is simply astounding in this book. One shipment of collectibles alone was worth over $1B (BILLION). It was scheduled to come over on the Titanic. 😳

tpixie Love your Christmas 🎄 look!! I was so worried about that shipment!!!! I can‘t believe the price!! 1w
Tamra @tpixie I know! I haven‘t read why Belle changed the shipment date - do you remember coming across it? 1w
kspenmoll I so want to read this book-maybe next year! 1w
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Tamra @kspenmoll definitely add it! 😁 1w
merelybookish I just have always assumed Christmas decorations*are* tacky and that's kinda the point. It's all just a matter of scale. 1w
LeahBergen I love my tacky Christmas 😆 1w
willaful @LeahBergen I know some people find colored lights tacky and you will take my colored lights out of my cold dead hands! 1w
LeahBergen @willaful Exactly! 😆 1w
CarolynM Tacky Christmas all the way💖 1w
tpixie @Tamra no! I can‘t remember! How frustrating. If you find out, let me know. I feel like there was some conflict, or it wasn‘t addressed again until after the fact. I can‘t remember though…. Now I need to find the physical book to comb through it! (edited) 1w
Tamra @tpixie thank you! I didn‘t recall if it was spelled out in the book. 1w
tpixie @Tamra 😊😊😊 7d
kspenmoll Here‘s to a tacky Christmas! 🤣 5d
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JenniferEgnor
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Another challenging text, written in high detail. The Creek were used like a tool by Andrew Jackson to expand the confederacy, clearing out the land while fighting another tribe he called the ‘Red Sticks‘. Thousands of both tribes were slaughtered…this massive death event and violent colonization paved the way for expanded slavery territory, and eventually, the Civil War. Note: the confederacy enslaved both Black and Indigenous people, and⬇️

JenniferEgnor also convinced them to kill each other, therefore furthering the cause of their ‘peculiar institution‘. 1w
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JenniferEgnor
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A challenging read, written in great detail like a text from university. I am from Charleston and I never knew the Grimke story until now. The house still stands and you can tour it. But do they talk about the horrors that went on inside it? There were some very dark parts in this book, as is anything truthfully told about slavery. The Grimke family were an elite, wealthy family who owned multiple plantations and hundreds of slaves. The⬇️

JenniferEgnor two sisters had a distaste for it and eventually left for PA, later becoming abolitionists. However, their activism was problematic. They still viewed Black people as ‘less than‘, and were silent as PA Hall burned in 1834; they also didn‘t acknowledge their own complicity, or their family‘s, in the system of oppression. Their family contained white, Black, and passing, as many families did. An important, historical read that we can take ⬇️ 1w
JenniferEgnor much from today, as many of these white savior attitudes still exist. 1w
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Graywacke
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My current audiobook. This is the recent winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize. The language is a little overkill in lifting up the native image and condemning the European one. But the info has been good.

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tpixie
Belle Greene | Alexandra Lapierre
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Belle Greene was a remarkable woman!!! The Morgan Library owes its ‘ life‘ to her!
I cant imagine what it would be like to carry the secret of passing.
This was another great read for #EuropaCollective.

I decided to see how much she inherited:
She I nherited $50,000 in 1913 from JP Morgan
Today‘s equivalent would be $1.6 million

She also inherited $50,000 in 1943 from his son
Which the equivalent today is $900,000

Tamra I‘m about 2/3 in and the 💵 is jaw dropping. 2w
tpixie @Tamra 💰 yes!! Your post about the price equivalent of the art made me think of looking into her inheritance equivalent! 💰 2w
jlhammar Wow! I‘m only about 70 pages in, but enjoying it so far. 2w
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jlhammar Oh, and you read The Personal Librarian before? I‘m curious if you preferred one over the other. 2w
tpixie @jlhammar they both are very good. This book is a more thorough history, and although it‘s a novel, I believe it reads a little bit more like a non-fiction book. The personal librarian did not go quite as deep, but did have interesting historical information and read more like a novel. 2w
tpixie @jlhammar I am glad I read both… 2w
jlhammar Thanks, good to know! 2w
tpixie @jlhammar 🪻🌸🪻 2w
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