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If you aren’t disabled right now, at some point you probably will be think about it.

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The history is engaging, but I couldn’t get through the last chapter that went on and on about indies. Walden’s was the first bookstore I ever saw (only one we had in the ‘70’s), and the only indie in my medium-sized metro area is kind of snotty and inaccessible to the average person, not to mention the mobility impaired. Anyway, I read on Libby. Crowd funded by taxpayers.

#libby #newnonfiction

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Sweet and interesting…this isn’t “Devil Wears Prada” of nannying. The sad part is that the author never does catch on to the lie she’s bought into about her college loans…which sends her into the field in the first place…and how many levels the wealthy have used her. Indentured servants got their freedom after 7 years, but she’s still paying. I hope she finally finds real success someday.

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I stayed up late to finish this exciting, well written page turner only to discover that it promotes criminal child neglect from public officials. Read only if you think 12 & 13 year olds are functional adults.

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Very interesting history & description of what Satan worshipers do & believe. Goes into unsolved crimes a little too much.

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A great summer/Olympic year read…perfect for the beach & pool! Long…skip to the chapters that interest you…an amazing range of topics.

I wish more libraries had this on Libby, but this one is worth buying.

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Got about halfway through this before I realized it’s just a rehash of other books. Also very depressing.

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Very detailed but mostly about how the shows were produced…business details…than the experience of the participants, at least for the shows I’m interested in. You can skip through to your interests easily.

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Good, but so long! Focused on British women. The sections on medieval women and female relationships are the most groundbreaking. Gregory is too hard on the system, which did have to address realities we have overcome and middle/upper class women, whose spectrum of life choices she seems to denigrate (ironically).

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So you don’t even need to access TNYT

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

NYT Article.

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Q: How many of the 100 have you read? Q: Which ones did you love/hate? Q: What's missing?

Here's the full list.

100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith 98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward 96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman 95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel 94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante 91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen 89. The Return, Hisham Matar 88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters 86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight 85. Pastoralia, George Saunders 84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee 83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat 82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor 81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan 80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 78. Septology, Jon Fosse 77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid 74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro 72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich 71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones 69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez 67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 66. We the Animals, Justin Torres 65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill 62. 10:04, Ben Lerner 61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon 59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 58. Stay True, Hua Hsu 57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner 55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 54. Tenth of December, George Saunders 53. Runaway, Alice Munro 52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 50. Trust, Hernan Diaz 49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang 48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison 46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson 44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin 43. Postwar, Tony Judt 42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano 37. The Years, Annie Ernaux 36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine 33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt 28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26. Atonement, Ian McEwan 25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24. The Overstory, Richard Powers 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro 22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo 21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond 20. Erasure, Percival Everett 19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe 18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty 16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 14. Outline, Rachel Cusk 13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 6. 2666, Roberto Bolano 5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones 3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel 2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

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Really happy to see this at my local library

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Just because it’s so cool!

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If a nonfiction book can be a beach read, this one is it! While women didn’t exactly run 5th Ave. (NYC’s posh shopping district), these women saved some pretty significant stores & a lot of needed jobs, especially during the Depression. Well-researched yet very engagingly written. There’s a reason why 11 people were waiting for me to finish my Libby copy!

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If you’re GenX you need to read this book to find out how much the Yuppies damaged us. But did teach us to like nice things.

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I teach as my contribution to the world and to earn a living…and summer! Time for family, beach, and books! ❤️

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The best thing about this book is that it gives the reader a true sense of what life in the mid-nineteenth century was really like with all the bluster & romance stripped away.

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Whatever hotel is there man has more than 36 rooms! Luckily VA Beach has so much waterfront I can go years without going to “the strip”.

Sea Isle Hotel Oceanfront and 22nd Street Virginia Beach, Virginia