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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: Excellent Historizzzz…
You know how sometimes you’re kinda sad when finishing a book, because despite having approximately 4,568,892,626,942 other books you need to read, none of them will be quite like this book? Yeah, I…
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Pirate Women: Badass Buccaneers Since the Dawn of Piracy
Why shouldn’t women be singing “A pirate’s life for me!” right alongside the men? Laura Sook Duncombe’s exquisite Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled The Seven Seas certainly proves that…
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A is For Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie is Deadly Good Fun
I’ve been a Dame Agatha Christie fan for very many decades now. She wasn’t my fave when I was young – I was a misogynistic jackass and thought she was a pale imitation…
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Prairie Fires: Kicking Nostalgia in the Tender Bits
My earliest bookstore memory is of going to the mall (remember when malls had bookstores? Good times) and leaving with two books. One was the first Garfield collection. The other was Little House…
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Quackery: A Book That Will Leave You Writhing
I bought Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything on a whim. It was on sale, and I loves me some sneering at snake oil. I figured it would…
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Ready to Do Something About White Supremacy?
It’s long past time we stomped white supremacy out. And when I say “we,” I mean me and my fellow white folks. White supremacy is our societal ill to fix. It’s not up…
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A Wonderful Book for Mary Anning’s Birthday: The Fossil Hunter
Mary Anning deserves far more recognition than she gets. So, on the occasion of her 221st birthday, let me share with you a book that does her justice. Shelley Emling traces the story…
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Four Must-Read Mount St. Helens Books
It seems like entire libraries have been written about the Mount St. Helens eruption. Here are four books well worth reading. Let me just start by stating the obvious: this is far from…
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Digital Book Bargains for Surviving Social Distancing
Heyo. I hope things are well for you, or at least as well as can be expected in pandemic times. Who would have guessed we’d be living 1918 2.0 when we rang in…
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Geology of the Pacific Northwest
I’ve had my eye on this one for quite a while, and when my nephew came to visit, I decided to go for it. Cynthia Light Brown’s Geology of the Pacific Northwest is…