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emmadilemma

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Joined 3 years ago

paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book

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These Truths (Paperback, 2019, W. W. Norton & Company) 3 stars

"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers …

"The natives, they are all dead of small Poxe," John Winthrop wrote when he arrived in New England in 1630: "the Lord hathe cleared our title to what we possess."

These Truths by  (Page 20)

Citing Alfred Crosby, "Ecological Imperialism: Biological Expansion of Europe," Cambridge University Press, 1986

These Truths (Paperback, 2019, W. W. Norton & Company) 3 stars

"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian ... Jill Lepore offers …

I've been making my way through a cultural history of Russia, but for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, I'm adding These Truths to my current shelf. Truth is an elusive goal that no human never reaches, but this history of America is impressively documented and likely much closer to Truth than what American kids like me were taught in school, or ever will be.

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Trains de nuit (Paperback, Français language, 2021, GALLIM LOISIRS) 4 stars

Parce qu'il permet de partir loin sans perdre de temps et de voyager plus "responsable", …

thirty trains!

4 stars

Even though the subtitle promised me 30 unforgettable journeys, I was still unprepared for how many overnight trains the authors had unearthed, nor for how far they went (think Arctic Circle).

A bit breathlessly cheerleader, this book is still one I'll keep for the next time I need a novel trip idea.

Half the Sky (EBook, 2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 4 stars

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our …

The 99% Invisible City (Hardcover, 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 3 stars

99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings …

A chapter of this book discusses "sky dancers," colorful inflated vertical tubes used for roadside advertisements. My partner got me a greeting card with a drawing of two of them and a quip, "totally tubular!". I've never seen them in real life and had to search the internet to get the reference. The phrase still conjures up only Valley Girls.

Secret Los Angeles (Paperback, 2022, Jonglez Publishing) 5 stars

A concrete jungle surrounded by abundant nature, Los Angeles is surprisingly more than just celebrities, …

You'd never guess L.A. was this interesting

5 stars

The house from the Thriller video. Abandoned missile control sites. The graves of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable… and their lovers. The steps down which Laurel and Hardy dropped a piano.

This is not your Fodor's L.A. With lots of offbeat sites - A street steeper than Lombard! Dine with cops! A fiberglass chicken! - there's something in here to interest any L.A. unbeliever.

Worth the trip? Don't know. But the book got me thinking seriously about whether L.A. could be fun, and that's a 5-star lift.