Not bad for a Monday
Oct. 19th, 2020 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. I think I am getting better? I haven't registered a fever in four days. I do not feel like I am dying anymore. I felt well enough that I decided to start exercising again today, so I walked leisurely for fifteen minutes, and I still feel okay. I am taking it really slowly, though. Stupid slow. I do not want to relapse. Fifteen minutes felt enough like really doing something that it's clear that I am going to need to be very gentle with myself.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This edition has a really excellent introduction, great footnotes, and a good selection of criticism that follows the text of Incidents. Highly recommended to teach from.
Incidents itself is harrowing to read. What Harriet Jacobs went through is unimaginable to me. This should be required reading for every American high school student, and I am deeply disturbed that even now in the 21st century, my high school daughter has read zero African American writers for school. No Harriet Jacobs. No Frederick Douglass. Reading about slavery from the point of view of the enslaved is not an activity that should wait for college classes.
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3. Everybody should go watchsholio's Fanvid: Defenders--Welcome to New York because it is glorious and will make you cry. And want to rewatch everything. LOL
4. Just in case you also want to go to sleep every night reading stationery blogs, these are my top three sites:
The Well-Appointed Desk
The Pen Addict
The Gentleman Stationer
These sites cover all kinds of pen, pencil, and paper use, but they also feature art and reviews of artists' supplies, so there's a wide range of posts that might interest many of you.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann JacobsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This edition has a really excellent introduction, great footnotes, and a good selection of criticism that follows the text of Incidents. Highly recommended to teach from.
Incidents itself is harrowing to read. What Harriet Jacobs went through is unimaginable to me. This should be required reading for every American high school student, and I am deeply disturbed that even now in the 21st century, my high school daughter has read zero African American writers for school. No Harriet Jacobs. No Frederick Douglass. Reading about slavery from the point of view of the enslaved is not an activity that should wait for college classes.
View all my reviews
3. Everybody should go watch
sholio's Fanvid: Defenders--Welcome to New York because it is glorious and will make you cry. And want to rewatch everything. LOL4. Just in case you also want to go to sleep every night reading stationery blogs, these are my top three sites:
The Well-Appointed Desk
The Pen Addict
The Gentleman Stationer
These sites cover all kinds of pen, pencil, and paper use, but they also feature art and reviews of artists' supplies, so there's a wide range of posts that might interest many of you.
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Date: 2020-10-19 09:53 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're feeling a little better.
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Date: 2020-10-20 12:54 pm (UTC)*hugs*