TELL ME TUESDAY
LAST. NOW. NEXT.
NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED AND NINE
JANUARY READING WRAP-UP
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TELL ME TUESDAY is a floating feature, depending on your reading style, where you tell us what you read last, what you are reading now, what you will be reading next from your TBR pile, and why.
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I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!
ONE BOOK A WEEK
I'm still trying to keep my reading down to one book a week.
FEBRUARY'S READING THEME
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
★★
YOUNG ADULT
SERIES ONE
FANTASY
DRAGONS
INDIGENOUS CULTURE
Published May 2023 -Own Ebook
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Besides the main themes: racism, colonialism, classism and feminism, the author crammed in: lesbian insta-love, hetero insta-love (so I guess that's bisexual insta-love), polyamory and polygamy. There's also an "autistic" secondary character that's not well represented. Also too many Harry Potter likenesses: a Snape type, a McGonagall type, a Draco type, and a Golden Trio. She should have stuck to the main themes, and been a little more original. I also don't get the glorification of polygamy when it's illegal in both Canada and the US and is a criminal offense in both countries. Also, it's not polyamory if the two other people don't know about each other, it's cheating. Heh. The author also made comments about how indigenous people care more for their animals than the Anglish (White people), but reservations are infamous for their inhumane treatment of dogs, especially in Canada where the author is from, so I don't know why she decided to make that statement. There was unintentional racist content when it came to the darkness of Black people's skin. And lastly, transgenders cannot change their biological sex, I don't know why the author thinks this.
★
ADULT FICTION
STANDALONE
"FEMINISM"
"HISTORICAL FICTION"
Published 2022 - Libby Borrow
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What I don't understand is if she watched old Dick Van Dyke shows to get an idea of how things looked in the 1950s and '60s, why did she think women decorated their homes with Jesus statues, large sewing baskets, and German hausfrau cookie jars? And again, if a book is written like a Romance, it might as well be a Romance and I'm not going to like it. Also, if you have this shelved as Historical Fiction you might want to think again. My mother was a blueprints specialist, first for General Electric Aerospace, and then for Lockheed Martin-Marietta from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, working directly with the chief engineer on each project, and she said she was never intentionally disrespected. If you read the one star reviews for this book many of them are from female scientists saying the misogyny and sexism among
professionals in this book is totally overblown.
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I also want to interject that my dad was a secretary... yes, a typing, shorthand note taking secretary at IBM in the 1950s and '60s, so "gender roles" weren't as strict as some might lead you to believe.
★★★★★
MEMOIR
MUSIC
WRITING
PHOTOGRAPHY
DEPRESSION
Published 2015 - Own Hardcover
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She talks a lot about the books she was reading at the time and the authors she admired, so I started a Goodreads shelf of those books and I am going to read them all.
MUSIC HISTORY
MEMOIR
BLACK MUSIC
1960s - ?
Published 2021 - Hoopla Borrow
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This book is wonderful. It gets technical both in production methods and music theory applications, so I don't think it will be for everyone, but if you are a music and/or history buff you will still like it.
LITERARY FICTION
CONTEMPORARY
MYSTERY
POLAND
Publishes March 4th 2024 - NetGalley ARC
JANUARY READING WRAP-UP
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BOOKS READ
THREE
ARCS
NONE
PHYSICAL BOOKS
NONE
EBOOKS
ONE
AUDIOBOOKS
TWO
MANGA - GRAPHIC NOVELS - COMICS
NONE
MIDDLE GRADE
NONE
YOUNG ADULT
ONE
ADULT FICTION
ONE
NONFICTION
ONE
RE-READ
NONE
FAVORITE JANUARY READ
★★★★★
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2024
YEAR TO DATE TOTALS
BOOKS READ
3
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NONFICTION 1/12
MIDDLE GRADE 0/6
NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS I/4
MUSIC 1/6
PLAYS 0/4
BACKLIST ARCS 0/4
CLASSICS 0/3
RE-READS 0/3
FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 0/12
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MIDDLE GRADE - 0
YOUNG ADULT - 1
ADULT FICTION - 1
NONFICTION - 1
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GRAPHIC NOVELS/MANGA - 0
AUDIOBOOKS - 2
EBOOKS - 1
PHYSICAL COPIES - 0
BORROWED - 2
ARCS - 0
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Ursula K. Le Guin on art, storytelling, and the power of language to transform and redeem.
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