July 2021
BookishBookClub past reads Viešas
Sukūrė sarah, tvarko
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The Other Black Girl Zakiya Dalila Harris
Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls …
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Eva Jurczyk
2 žvaigždutės
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them? …
sarah sako: August 2022
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Dangerous Books For Girls Maya Rodale
Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives …
sarah sako: February 2021
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Japan in Print Mary Elizabeth Berry (Asia - Local Studies/Global Themes)
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators …
sarah sako: May 2021
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4 žvaigždutės
You'd think a book about antiquarian bookselling wouldn't be loaded with suspense or keep us laughing, or make us shake …
sarah sako: February 2022
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Thanks for Typing Juliana Dresvina
This collection uncovers the wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men. Revealing …
sarah sako: January 2023
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers Jenn Shapland
5 žvaigždutės
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the boundaries between criticism, biography, and …
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Book Clubs and Book Commerce Corinna Norrick-Rühl
In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book …
sarah sako: March 2023
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Shakespeare's 'Lady Editors': A New History of the Shakespearean Text Molly G. Yarn
The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men – most of …
sarah sako: August 2022
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4 žvaigždutės
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which …
sarah sako: June/July 2023
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The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance Anders Rydell
For readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of …
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Reading the romance Janice A. Radway
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's …
sarah sako: February 2024
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Once upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller Oliver Darkshire
5 žvaigždutės
Welcome to Sotheran’s, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled …
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Index, A History of the Dennis Duncan
4 žvaigždutės
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. …
sarah sako: October 2023
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No Fond Return of Love Barbara Pym
5 žvaigždutės
"Dulcie Mainwearing is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her …
