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( children's book roundup for June )
I reset my Goodreads challenge for 150. Now that Fiona is exclusively reading chapter books and not a dozen picture books a week, there's no way I'm going to reach 200 (especially if I continue to doggedly read that interminable Ginsberg collection--only 500+ pages to go! *sobs*).
If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a fascinating book that consists of answers Roosevelt wrote in advice columns over the course of a couple decades. I didn't know anything about her before reading this, but now I want to read a biography of her. As the book foregrounds, so many of the issues that readers were wrestling with in the 40s and 50s are issues that still preoccupy us in the 21st century; I find most of her answers very kind, thoughtful, and pertinent to life almost 100 years later and very few of them to be dated.
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Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I think the pieces about assault and violence against women are really powerful, especially the titular article.
I am less interested in Solnit's thoughts on Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.
Solnit also uses the same handful of examples in each article, which works fine and wouldn't be noticeable in a magazine or on a blog, but in essays back-to-back in a book, it just seems like she's repeating herself.
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I reset my Goodreads challenge for 150. Now that Fiona is exclusively reading chapter books and not a dozen picture books a week, there's no way I'm going to reach 200 (especially if I continue to doggedly read that interminable Ginsberg collection--only 500+ pages to go! *sobs*).
If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor RooseveltMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a fascinating book that consists of answers Roosevelt wrote in advice columns over the course of a couple decades. I didn't know anything about her before reading this, but now I want to read a biography of her. As the book foregrounds, so many of the issues that readers were wrestling with in the 40s and 50s are issues that still preoccupy us in the 21st century; I find most of her answers very kind, thoughtful, and pertinent to life almost 100 years later and very few of them to be dated.
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Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca SolnitMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I think the pieces about assault and violence against women are really powerful, especially the titular article.
I am less interested in Solnit's thoughts on Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.
Solnit also uses the same handful of examples in each article, which works fine and wouldn't be noticeable in a magazine or on a blog, but in essays back-to-back in a book, it just seems like she's repeating herself.
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