Year: 2021
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April Showers Bring May Roundups
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir, Arsenic and Adobo, books, Brandon Taylor, Brit Bennett, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Charles Yu, Daughter of Fortune, Edward Carey, Elisabeth's Lists, fiction, Get a Life Chloe Brown, Hafsah Faizal, Howards End, Interior Chinatown, Isabel Allende, Isabel Ibanez, Isabel Wilkerson, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Lucy Worsley, Mia P. Manansala, Reading, Real Life, Salman Rushdie, Talia Hibbert, The Girl with the Louding Voice, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Mitchells vs the Machines, The Mothers, We Free the Stars, WolfwalkersEventful Events and Happening Happenings We got our first Covid shots! And our second Covid shots! Two steps closer to quasi-normal life! I’m very excited about it (if you couldn’t tell). It took almost two weeks to get an appointment and we’d been checking every day and then all of a sudden appointments! It was…
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Just as a disclaimer–none of my links are paid/sponsored/solicited. It’s just stuff I like or wanted to share. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings March was a crazy month for me. It’s always kind of a crazy month because there are so many family birthdays in March, but this year was especially hectic. Two of my…
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Okay so weekly roundups are apparently not a thing that I can mentally commit to, especially with school this semester. So we’re going to make it a monthly thing instead. January seems to have flown by. Just as a disclaimer–none of my links are paid/sponsored/solicited. It’s just stuff I like or wanted to share. Eventful…
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Libraries in the ancient world are not like the libraries we know today. Often they were privately owned, and very few people would have had access to the material inside. Partially, this was because literacy was not widespread and therefore confined to the elite. Even in Greece, which prized literacy pretty highly, literacy rates were…
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Palimpsest is one of my favorite words. It refers to a text that has been written over, but is still somewhat legible beneath the newer text. This writing over creates this fascinating relationship between the original and the new text. Often this happened in the medieval era because parchment, made from the skins of sheep…
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I have made no secret of loving the Harry Potter series, either on this blog or in my everyday life and proudly identify myself as a Ravenclaw. And yet, the author of this most-beloved series has recently come out as anti-trans, testing the love that I have for the author of one of my most…
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Okay so weekly roundups are apparently not a thing that I can mentally commit to, especially with school this semester. So we’re going to make it a monthly thing instead. January seems to have flown by. Just as a disclaimer–none of my links are paid/sponsored/solicited. It’s just stuff I like or wanted to share. Eventful…
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My Top 10 Reads of 2020
Akwaeke Emezi, Alix E. Harrow, Angela Carter, books, Brit Bennett, Casey McQuiston, favorite books 2020, Geraldine Brooks, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Novik, People of the Book, Reading, Red White and Roya Blue, Spinning Silver, Stone Mattress, The Death of Vivek Oji, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Magic Toyshop, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Vanishing Half, V.E. SchwabThis year I read 150 books, and though it was a bit of a mixed bag with plenty of books I didn’t finish and lots of reading for classes, there were still a number of great books. In fact there were well over 30 books this year that I unreservedly loved, and narrowing it down…
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Welcome to the weekly roundup on Ink in the Archives! Every week (or so) I will share what I’ve been up to and interested in and ask you to fill me in on your week too. Eventful Events and Happening Happenings Finishing the semester came with a profound sense of relief, but as we prepared…
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