Hey all! It’s time for Wednesday Links! I have breaking news and that all of the new MMORPGs I was excited for have been derailed by picking up Final Fantasy XIV again. Oops! Don’t you hate it when that happens? My audiobook hold for Perils of Pleasure just came in at the library. Did you know I’ve never read Julie Anne Long before? I inhaled the Maiden Lane series by Elizabeth Hoyt on audio a few years ago and … Continue reading Links: Book Tours, Non-Fiction, & More →
So, unsurprisingly, it turns out being a woman in 17th century New England was not awesome. I mean, it was probably awesome for some people, but not a lot. Stacy Schiff’s 500 page analysis of the famed Salem witch trials doesn’t shy away from the gender politics that lead to the “execution of fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft,” although Schiff also never points to that as the sole reason for whole … Continue reading The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff →
The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is an anthology that combines prose writing, illustrations, and short comics by many different authors. All of the entries explore the ways in which women who identify as geeks experience romance. There are countless variations on this theme – some people write about their first crush, some about a divorce, some about how fan fiction shaped the way they talk about sexuality. The general theme is romance but the … Continue reading The Secret Loves of Geek Girls ed. by Hope Nicholson →
I’ve been a fan of Jenny Lawson’s blog The Bloggess for a long time–she’s a truly funny writer who posts stories about her crazy childhood, her crazy adulthood, and balances them all with reflections on mental illness. Furiously Happy is the same way–it’s two parts humor and one part discussion of something that most people find hard to talk to about. It’s one of those rare books that makes you snort-laugh in public and also … Continue reading Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson →
