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Welcome! This is a blog about literature and books that are critical to any social discourse: literary, cultural, racial, gender-based. A blog for humanists, scholars, the curious, and thinkers and thinkeresses.

Reviewed books

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Three Sisters, Three Queens - Philippa Gregory

Isabella: The Warrior Queen - Kirstin Downey, Kimberly Farr

Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford - Julia Fox

The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory

The King's Curse - Philippa Gregory

What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] - Zoë Heller

I am Rosa Parks - Brad Meltzer

The White Princess - Philippa Gregory

A Sweet Smell of Roses - Angela Johnson

The Red Queen (The Cousins' War, #2) - Philippa Gregory

His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute - Maya Angelou

The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc - Kimberly Cutter

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Cracks - Sheila Kohler

The Tumultuous Year of Constance Harding: A Novel - Ceri Radford

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath - Stephanie Hemphill

Beautiful Creatures - Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus - Margaret Atwood

Waiting for Godot (Eng rev): A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Samuel Beckett