Book reviews
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What I read in August 2020
All the books I read this month in some way touched on the formation and tensions of the United States, and the way people travel through it physically. This was partially on purpose, as I decided to read Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement and The West this month in the hopes that it would in…
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What I read in July 2020
Books: The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium by Bernd Brunner, which is what the title says. This one’s a weird recommend for me. This book is a fun, breezy read, while being super informative, highlighting the development of the aquarium from at-home scientific observations to the educational institution of the Aquarium,…
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What I read in June 2020
I read two books this month, Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires and The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany.
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What I read in May 2020
Robert Don Hughes’ The Wizard in Waiting was a used book bargain bin impulse buy based on how cool I thought the cover was. And the scene on the cover does actually happen in the book! The rhino elephants can talk! These cool beasts get like one paragraph and then the rest of the book…
Gabrielle Bleu 