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Mariah’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mariah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mariah Burton Nelson
Goodreads Author
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in Springfield, PA, The United States
April 14, 1956
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December 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/mariahburtonnelson
Oppressive Stereotypes for Strong Women
My letter to the editor in the Washington Post, February 19, 2014:
With all due respect for a brave person who is determined to chart her own path, Marion Cory [“Genderqueer at the gym,” Outlook, Feb. 16] inadvertently reinforced the very gender stereotypes that oppress her.According to Ms. Cory, derby cars, self-discipline, adventure, challenge, sports and weightlifting are masculine. Has she Read more of this blog post »
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"Reviewing Ken Follett at this point is difficult because I feel like I've said it all before. This is another lovely pastoral historical that follows the everyday lives of characters in Neolithic Britain.
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"This one hits hard. Percival Everett is a master stylist, as always, and here he adopts the trappings of detective fiction, coupled with bitingly funny humor, to tell a story about lynching in the United States. Everett makes no bones about the reali"
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction |
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“Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.”
― We Are All Athletes
― We Are All Athletes
“Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.”
― Nightwoods
― Nightwoods
“People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody around them has to take it or go somewhere else.”
― Nightwoods
― Nightwoods
“By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.”
― Nightwoods
― Nightwoods
“Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.”
― We Are All Athletes
― We Are All Athletes
“She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear or brushing his cheek with a dandelion blossom. Somebody who knows when you're being silly, and laughs and laughs. So long as he was little enough to carry, she could hardly bring herself to put him down.”
― Lila
― Lila
