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The Lit Lounge - Unveiling May's Audiobook Gems: Reviews and Reflections

📚 Dive into May's Audiobook Gems! 🎧 Join us in the Lit Lounge as I unveil captivating reviews and reflections on the latest literary adventures. #AudiobookGems #MayReads #LiteraryEscape #BookLoversUnite

May, a month of playful weather pranks, toyed with us through its ever-shifting temperatures, swinging from the frigid clasp of the high 30s to the scorching embrace of the high 80’s, keeping us suspended in an eternal meteorological dance. Ah, layers, the indispensable companions of our New Hampshire existence, for we embrace them regardless of the whims of the weather gods. And so, amidst these…

[fictionadventurer]

I recognize there's danger in the modern tendency to over-pathologize things related to mental health, but reading about history can remind you that it is nice to have the terms, because identifying and labeling the problem can go a long way to helping you solve it.

Thought brought to you by the Civil War audiobook that talked about all of Stonewall Jackson's eccentricities--like regularly stopping to raise an arm to "balance his blood"--while the whole time my brain was yelling, "Will someone please help this man with his crippling OCD?"

[thepaperquillco]

[mixedbagofships]

Her mansion was torn down in 1912.

[kuwdora]

13 Books Meme

What’s up readers?! How about a little show and tell? Answer these 13 questions, tag 13 lucky readers and if you’re feeling extra bookish add a shelfie! Let’s Go!

1) The Last book I read: Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World collected by Pádraig Ó Tuama 2) A book I recommend: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 3) A book that I couldn’t put down: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Kate Abbott 4) A book I’ve read twice (or more): Explorer (Foreigner #6) by CJ Cherryh

5) A book on my TBR: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

6) A book I’ve put down: Spin State by Chris Moriarty

7) A book on my wish list: I don’t currently have a wishlist but I’d probably put Evan Kennedy’s poetry collection Metamorphoses on it. 8) A favorite book from childhood: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 9) A book you would give to a friend: Xenogensis Saga by Octavia Butler 10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 11) A nonfiction book you own: The Making of the Planet of the Apes by J. W. Rinzler 12) What are you currently reading: There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib and Burnout by Emily Nagsoki and Amelia Nagsoki and The Infernal Machines & Other Plays by Jean Cocteau. 13) What are you planning on reading next? A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib. Also I technically had started this book already but I'll be picking up James Clive's Cultural Amnesia again. Next audiobook is hopefully going to be Eragon by Christopher Paolini or T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead, whatever comes next on my library holds. Oh, who am I tagging... if you want to do it, hmmmm... @wren-of-the-woods @reinvent-and-believe @soymimikyu @dancingwiththefae @ars-amatoria and hmmm. @crushcandles @danegen and anyone else who wants to talk about their current books.

[iomadachd]

PEOPLE I'D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER

alias / name: Calico/Cal

birthday:  July 25

zodiac sign: leo/saggitarius/leo (no comment)

height: 5'3"

hobbies: writing, drawing, singing, painting, sculpting, reading, kink

favorite color: midnight blue, silver, black

favorite book: Hunger Games series

last song: Shelter by Sleep Token

last film / show: Blown Away

recent reads: Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee, Liar Temptress Soldier Spy by Karen Abbot

inspiration: music, people, literature, art, colors, capitalism, everything

story behind url: i wanted to make a multiuse blog again, but didn't want an overly long URL. My go-to is Latin usually, but I didn't like anything I was coming up with/it was taken, so I looked to other languages, and fell to Scots Gaelic. iomadachd means 'diversity', and it kind of became the language of the blog. It's one I'm trying to learn even though it's not very useful for everyday life.

fun fact about me: i can make a three leaf clover with my tongue

tagged by: @southern-belle-outcasts

tagging: YOU

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October to January Readings

Nonfiction

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths - Natalie Haynes

The Witches: Salem, 1692 - Stacy Schiff

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan

Women & Power: A Manifesto - Mary Beard

The Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern - Mary Beard

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease - Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince

Digging up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon - Eric H. Cline

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 - Brian Fagan

Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization - Brian Fagan

The Ark Before Noah - Irving Finkel

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession - Susan Orlean

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History - Molly Caldwell Crosby

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile - Candice Millard

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War - Karen Abbott

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - Erik Larson

Fiction

Warberg in Rome - James Carroll

Still Star-Crossed - Melinda Taub

Terciel and Elinor: an Old Kingdom novel - Garth Nix

[fictionadventurer]

Thanks for tagging!

last song: I've got "Fernando" by ABBA stuck in my head for unknown reasons

last movie: Last complete movie is still The Super Mario Brothers Movie

currently watching: Nothing, really

currently reading: Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott and The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 1 by Beth Brower

last thing researched for writing purposes: If writing tumblr posts counts, last thing I researched was how many different kinds of bears there are. (The answer is eight).

tagging: @siena-sevenwits, @isfjmel-phleg, @scarvenartist, @freenarnian, @thatscarletflycatcher, @theamiableanachronism, @why-bless-your-heart, @cuppatealove, @lady-merian, if you feel like playing

9 People Tag

tagged by the always-fabulous @arijensineink!

Last song: Epiphany by BTS

Last movie: My Neighbor Totoro

Currently watching: Like @arijensineink I don't really/haven’t watched TV in a while… do Yoongi’s tour vlogs count?

Currently reading: Killing Commendatore, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Your Brain On Art, and just finished I Work Like a Gardener about an interview with artist Joan Miró (not very lengthy at all but so interesting, highly recommend it + his work)

Last thing researched for writing purposes: Uncommon mental illnesses/disorders

tagging @toribookworm22 @words-after-midnight @pandoras-comment-box @chickensarentcheap @marigoldispeculiar @somniphobicfox @vsnotresponding @royal1asset-if @imdefnotvanessa and I know this is a 9 people tag but whatever, open tag

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Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

This is a non-fiction book about four women who were in the Civil War, Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the war as a Union soldier. Belle Boyd, who was a spy for the Confederate army. Rose O’Neale Greenhow, a widow who had affairs with northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and Elizabeth Van Lew, who was a wealthy abolitionist who controlled a very big espionage ring right under the rebels in Richmond’s noses.

These four women were all interesting in such different ways. It’s always about the battles, and troop movements, and this general or that general when it comes to the Civil War, but, the stories of these women show that the fabric of the Civil War was so much more complicated. An awesome book.

You may like this book If you Liked: The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini, All the Daring of the Soldier by Elizabeth D. Leonard, or Wild Rose by Ann Blackman

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

[sleepdepravity]

STRONG chapter title.

[76historylover]

"liar, temptress, soldier, spy" by karen abbott is about 4 female spies in the civil war. it was very readable and i had fun with it (:

Hello anon! Thank you so much for the message! The title does ring a bell to me, maybe I’ve read it in the past? However, I will check it out! Thank you so much for the recommendation!

[fictionadventurer]

Fortnight of Books: Day 9

Favorite non-romance relationship

The friendship between Emma Lion, Islington, Hawkes and Pierce is about as good as fictional friendships come. (I especially loved Volume 4).

I also really liked the family bonds between the Igibys/Wingfeathers in The Wingfeather Saga.

Best non-fiction book

Team of Rivals, of course, but I also loved Endurance by Alfred Lansing, and I want to give a shout-out to the fascinating President Garfield bio Destiny of the Republic, the fascinating Civil War history in Liar Temptress Soldier Spy, and mention that I loved getting to read the letters between presidents and their wives collected in My Dear President.

Even though I didn't exactly read it, I did want to mention that my favorite nonfiction purchase of the year was the 1881 copy of From Log Cabin to White House and The World's Eulogies. It's just a fascinating artifact of history as it was happening. (Where else can I read Chester Arthur's acceptance of the VP nomination where he lays out his reasoning for supporting the spoils system, I ask you? Plus, when rereading The Long Winter, it was fascinating to consider that that book was printed in the same year the story took place).

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 7 of the 50 book challenge. Liar, temptress, soldier, spy by Karen Abbott. 4 women who were spy’s during the American civil war and 2 on each side. It at times made me angry because of how awful they seemed, but also how much they loved their countries. I recommend it.

[mixedbagofships]

Ugh, the people of Richmond claimed to see her ghost after she died. The woman couldn’t even rest in peace.

[eileentothestars]

I only have a couple of minor points to add to this:

- For more on Washington and slavery, may I recommend Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, about Ona Judge. Ona was enslaved by the Washingtons and ran away to freedom, prompting the Washingtons to spend RIDICULOUS amounts of time and energy trying to get her back because what slave in her right mind wouldn’t want to work for them, really??? (They did not get her back.)

- Sarah Grimke’s sister Angelina also worked with her as an abolitionist.

- Another for the "rich southern lady who knows what’s up” category: Elizabeth Van Lew, who freed the family slaves the second her father died and also served as a spy for the North during the Civil War, along with one of the women she freed from slavery. Also, I think it was her (though Wikipedia says it was her brother?) who would regularly go to slave markets just to buy and free the enslaved people there. Anyway you can read about her in Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.