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Katie Singer I'm following the American Historical Association's Summer Reading Challenge! My first task is to read a book about a place I'll be visiting. I'm goin…moreI'm following the American Historical Association's Summer Reading Challenge! My first task is to read a book about a place I'll be visiting. I'm going to Paris in July, so I'm reading Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France by Robin Mitchell.(less)
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If we read books like this in history class, more folks would understand our society - and maybe even want to be historians! This is the kind of book I hope that my work mirrors. It tells a cultural history, personal history and national history thro ...more
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This novel is full of history, culture, and insight. The backdrop was centered on Jewish and African-American communities living near and amongst each other, circa 1930s Pennsylvania. So on point and interesting. And the characters were amazingly dra ...more
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I admire Lamott greatly, as a writer, thinker and human. Bird by Bird and some of her subsequent essays were extraordinary. This book, however, does not do it for me. I always consider as a caveat that I listened to a book, rather than read it. This ...more
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“You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.”
Katie Singer, The Wholeness of a Broken Heart

“When I called Nona Aguilar, author of The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control (Simon & Schuster, 1986), I described my frustration that I was not acceptable to the training program at the Albuquerque clinic. “Well,” she said, respectfully, “I agree with that policy.” I leaned back in my chair. “Okay,” I said. “I don’t understand this. Please explain.” “Properly used,” she began, “sex is about emotional and psychological union. In our culture, artificial birth control—which feminists have strongly advocated—has made sex a recreational activity. Sex certainly can be recreational, but its potential is to be transcendent. Sex is the life-bearing force of humankind. When lovemaking is recreational, it’s a little like being color-blind during sunset over the Grand Canyon. Union becomes harder to experience, and that’s a loss.” With”
Katie Singer, The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy- Naturally-and to Gauge Your Reproduction Health

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James Baldwin

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