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nerdygaymormon · 1 year ago
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living400lbs · 1 year ago
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"Modern estimates state that by the mid-nineteenth century, as many as 20 percent of pregnancies ended in abortion. Women might be married and “respectable,” or unmarried and desperate. One 1860 medical paper, written by the physician Edwin Hale, “safely asserted that there is not one married female in ten who has not had an abortion, or at least attempted one.” The doctor further noted that, in his own practice, he had seen women who had given birth to “eight, ten and thirteen children, and [had] at least as many abortions.” Hale was not necessarily horrified by this; he believed that “in no instance should the life, or even the health of the mother be sacrificed to save that of an impregnated ovum before the date of its ‘viability.’” Horatio Storer, an antiabortion activist, later came to a similar conclusion, about the frequency of abortions, if not the moral merit of performing them. He claimed in 1868 that in New York, there was approximately one abortion for every four live births."
From Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright
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onebluebookworm · 1 year ago
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December 2023 Book Club Picks
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Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm: Harley Quinn - the Joker's right hand henchwoman, hopelessly in love with her dear sweet puddin'. But what lead her down this dark path? And is there any hope to possibly reach her?
As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman: Welcome to Camp Three Peaks, a rustic, Christian summer retreat for teenage girls. A week of hiking, adventure, and communing with the God of its 19th-century founders… a God that doesn’t traditionally number people like 13-year-old Charlie Lamonte among His (Her? Their? Its?) flock. The only black camper in the group, and queer besides, she struggles to reconcile the innocent intent of the trip with the blinkered obliviousness of those determined to keep the Three Peaks tradition going. As the journey wears on and the rhetoric wears thin, Charlie can’t help but poke holes in the pious disregard this storied sanctuary has for outsiders like herself—and her fellow camper, Sydney.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte: Gilbert Markham is intrigued by Helen Graham, the beautiful, mysterious new tenant who's recently rented Wildfell Hall with her young son. Although Gilbert is more than happy to befriend her, Helen's reclusive behavior sparks local gossip, and she seems intent on keeping Gilbert at arm's length. Finally, as Gilbert's feelings for Helen become more than friendship, she allows him to read her diary that explains exactly why she behaves the way she does, as the details of the disastrous marriage she left behind unfurl.
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds: Will's older brother Shawn has been murdered. And Will knows the rules - no snitching. No crying. And revenge at any cost. So now, with a gun shoved in his waistband, he boards his building's elevator to do just that. But then the elevator stops and on comes Buck, the one who gave Shawn the gun in the first place...and who Will knows for a fact is dead too. As the elevator continues to descend and more passengers hitch a ride with Will, the cycle of violence unfolds before him. Each ghost has a piece that changes the story Will thought he knew, a story that might continue forever if Will gets off that elevator.
Get Well Soon: History Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright: In 1518, a woman in the small village of Strasbourg began dancing and didn't stop. Six days later, her corpse was carried away after she died of exhaustion. In a month, 400 more people would be infected with the so-called Dancing Plague. A national effort to clean the River Thames is ignited when a cholera outbreak is linked to the "Great Stink" in London. An eccentric English gentleman creates the No Nose Club, a social club for stigmatized syphilitics when there was no known cure. An Irish cook causes two lethal breakouts of typhoid, forever earning the moniker Typhoid Mary. Since the dawn of humanity, we've been fascinated and terrified by disease. In this hilarious and historical book, Jennifer Wright not only explores the circumstances that lead to the outbreaks, but the brave people who fought against them, found cures, or simply eased the suffering of its victims.
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prcg · 2 months ago
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AZ oculta información sobre 218.000 votantes que carecen de prueba de ciudadanía
El jefe de elecciones demócratas de Arizona está reteniendo ilegalmente las identidades de aproximadamente 218.000 votantes registrados en las listas de votantes del estado que carecen de prueba documental de ciudadanía (DPOC), según alega una demanda presentada el miércoles. Presentada por la Fundación Comunidades Fuertes de Arizona (SCFA) contra el Secretario de Estado demócrata Adrian Fontes y…
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kickdrumheart68 · 6 months ago
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imkeepinit · 8 months ago
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emarie-stone · 1 year ago
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[picture: cover of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright]
So part of my personal self care is to listen to audio books on my commute (or else I usually fixate on something negative and work myself into a bad mood for no reason.)
Madame Restell is very interesting and very informative! And yes, it’s about abortions in the 1800s, and it doesn’t gloss over how and why they were done. I wouldn’t call it gruesome, but also I’m morbidly curious about medical procedures.
The problem with this book is that it did not fulfill my self care needs lol. If anything, it made me angrier when I listened to it. So instead of arriving to work bushy tailed and ready for emails, I was ready to fight someone. Pros and cons.
Overall a very interesting book and one I will be adding to my permanent collection.
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kamreadsandrecs · 2 years ago
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kammartinez · 2 years ago
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thatwritererinoriordan · 7 months ago
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I really liked Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright.
I like everything Jennifer Wright writes.
Her husband is @kibblesmith
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mediademon · 11 months ago
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THE SILENT TWINS (2022) dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
"I am immune from sanity or insanity. I am an empty present box; all unwrapped for someone else's disposal. I am a thrown away eggshell, with no life inside me, for i am not touchable, but a slave to nothingness." -June Gibbons
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living400lbs · 1 year ago
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"While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century society admired virginity, actual attitudes toward everyday premarital sexual activity at the time were more relaxed—both in Europe and even in supposedly puritanical America—than they’re often portrayed as being in modern media. As the historian Jack Larkin stated, “Into the 1820s, almost all Americans would have subscribed to the commonplace notion that sex, within proper social confines, was enjoyable and healthy and that prolonged sexual abstinence could be injurious to health. They also would have assumed that women had powerful sexual drives.” Premarital sex between couples was common. So common, in fact, that one pastor, in South Carolina in 1847, claimed that most brides—“except for two or three”—were pregnant when he performed their weddings. In some northeastern American states, bundling—in which two sweethearts would snuggle, supposedly chastely, in bed, with the consent of their parents—was a common custom during courtship through the 1700s. The “chaste” part of the practice, however, was notoriously misleading—which may help explain why, in the 1790s, one-third of rural New England brides were already pregnant by the time they walked down the aisle."
From Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright
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onebluebookworm · 2 years ago
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March 2023 Book Club Picks
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It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright - Breaking up is hard - the tears, the uncertainty, the late-night Facebook stalking after a few glasses of wine. But something that might help is a look at some famous historical figures and their lost relationships. Like the break up of Catherine Lamb and Lord Byron, which culminated in her sending him a letter full of her bloody pubic hair. Or the coldness of Lord Alfred Douglas, unmoved by Oscar Wilde landing in prison because of their affair, wrote several books denouncing him and downplaying their relationship if it meant staying in his family's good graces. Or Norman Mailer firing a loaded gun at his ex-wife during a crowded house party. Or Emperor Nero, who killed almost everyone he ever cared about over a broken heart. Suddenly stalking your ex's Instagram stories doesn't sound too bad, does it.
Belinda Goes to Bath by Marion Chesney - Hannah Pym, the Traveling Matchmaker, rides again! Traveling to Bath to see the ocean, she finds herself sharing the post with Miss Belinda Earle, a spirited heiress who vows to never marry...only for her father to banish her to Bath to be straightened out by a spinster aunt. When their party is stranded on the property of the Marquess of Frenton, Hannah notices the instant attraction between Belinda and the Marquess, and vows to work her magic once more to keep Belinda out of the clutches of her mad aunt.
Rain by Joe Hill: Honeysuckle Speck is the happiest woman alive. It's a beautiful August day in Boulder, Colorado, and she's finally moving in with her beloved girlfriend. But in the blink of an eye, the sky darkens, and their blissful world is torn apart when splinters of beautiful, but deadly crystal rain down from the sky.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid - Jake and his girlfriend travel down a lonely country road to visits Jake's parents. Little does Jake realize his girlfriend is beginning to rethink their relationship. She's thinking of ending things. When they arrive at the house, the girlfriend quickly begins to realize that something is not quite right there - Jake's parents keep asking her awkward questions, and she sees pictures in the house that could be a younger version of herself. As the the night wears on and things get more and more unsettling, things culminate in one terrifying moment in a high school gymnasium.
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole - World War I (or, the Great War, as it was called) raged from 1914 to 1918, one of the most devastating events of the early 20th century. New technology brought war machines to the forefront, killing 38 million people, and sending 17 million home with disfiguring injuries or psychological damage that was neither understood nor treated effectively. From this broken populace emerged the foundations of modern horror as we know them - the mental asylums that corral and punish rather than treat and heal; the unfeeling, mechanized tools of death that use humans as fuel; even disfigured monsters, from Frankenstein to Freddy Krueger, all find their origins in the nightmare wasteland that was the front of the Great War.
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liefst · 2 years ago
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the pain & insecurity that comes with hope:
Franz Wright, "Night Walk" (via @orpheuslament) / Kirsten Justesen, "Sculpture II" (1968) / @sweatermuppet / Jennifer Metsker, Days of the God-Sized Brains via @forestgreenlesbian / unknown photographer / Tindersticks, "What are you fighting for?"
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asoftepiloguemylove · 1 year ago
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suddenly childhood ended and now i am supposed to know how to live
Franz Wright Entry In An Unknown Hand / Elena Ferrante (tr. Ann Goldstein) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (via @luthienne) / Jenny Zhang How It Feels / Anna Kamienska Astonishments / unknown / Gabrielle Bates & Jennifer S. Cheng So We Must Meet Apart / W. Todd Kaneko The Day After / image; SZA Blind / Ethel Cain Dog Days / @darkerthanerebus / pinterest
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a-happy-beginning · 3 months ago
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—Buttercup and Emma, #Butter 'Em, The Princess Bride and Once Upon a Time, “Snow Drifts”
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