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Carolyn’s 2025 Year in Books
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Carolyn Whitzman
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What's Truth Got to Do with It?
What an interesting article in Quill and Quire about Clara Ford's stories and the nature of truth! https://quillandquire.com/authors/in-...
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| Memorial Days is an elegant and terse account of the death of Tony Horwitz, Geraldine Brooks’ husband. The memoir has two timelines: one, the immediate aftermath of his sudden death, has some good things to say about the current casual brutality of A ...more | |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris:
"I struggled between giving this book either 2 or 3 stars. The history was really interesting, but I thought the book was very hard to follow. There were so many characters introduced which I thought were not fully explained or developed that it was s"
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Women Among Monuments: Solitude, Permission, and the Pursuit of Female Genius:
"Carry a notebook and record the most mundane things in the most unusual sentences. Ride a hot air balloon along the earth’s melting surface. Watch its fire from a distance, the red sooty legions of industry crawling Arctic-ward like stretch marks. Cr"
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“The National Council of Women in Canada was appalled by these judicial attitudes. It pointed out, before and after the Seduction Act, that "false charges of this kind ae of very rare occurrence." In fact, the obverse was true. It was almost impossible to get a woman to press charges of seduction or rape because her sexual background would then be put under scrutiny.”
― Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder that Shocked Toronto
― Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder that Shocked Toronto
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