Megan started reading Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit
I am only a handful of pages in and already I have complicated feelings about this book.
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A dedicated if somewhat slow reader. Book lover. I am also at @Megan@toot.lgbt
Libraries and used bookshops are my happy places. NQN - Newly Qualified Nurse #NHS - love my bicycle.
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Megan finished reading American Prometheus by Kai Bird
American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …
Megan reviewed American Prometheus by Kai Bird
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. …
Meticulously detailed and readable.
5 stars
This book took the author 26 years, two advances from the publisher, and the need for a co-author, to be published. The original commissioning editor at Knopff died, requiring a replacement. The author's own family were certain he was going to die before it was published. The amount of detailed research is unsurpassed, and really shows in the text. I loved it, more than the movie, which reduced a number of the people involved to caricatures.
Megan reviewed The Typewriter Century by Martyn Lyons
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the …
I really enjoyed this book
5 stars
A thoroughly researched book, full of great information and interesting facts.
Megan started reading The Typewriter Century by Martyn Lyons
The Typewriter Century by Martyn Lyons
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was …
Megan commented on American Prometheus by Kai Bird
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. …
I struggled with this book at first, but something clicked into place around Chapter 3 or so, and now I’m blasting through it, and when I’m not reading it I can’t wait to get back to it. A detailed piece of work, meticulously researched, and written in an easy to read prose style. Full of fantastic moments from Oppenheimer’s life, the small incidents of a life, as well as the grand scale of historic events. A who’s who of the early days of particle physics.
Megan reviewed Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger
Bit of a Disappointing Book
3 stars
Megan started reading American Prometheus by Kai Bird
American Prometheus by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird …
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Megan started reading Corrections in Ink by Keri Blakinger
Thanks to the recent news about the Texas Observer, I learned about Corrections in Ink and bought a copy. From the online blurb; "Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink, a memoir about addiction, incarceration and building a life after it all.
In her day job, she is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news site dedicated to covering the criminal jutice sustem. Her work focuses on uncovering the worst parts of American prisons, and exposing flaws in the county's criminal justice system. Before coming to TMP, she covered prisons and prosecutors for The Houston Chronicle and her work has also appeared in VICE, the BBC, the New York Daily News, The New York Times and more.
She was part of the Houston Chronicle team whose coverage of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Two years later, she wrote …
Thanks to the recent news about the Texas Observer, I learned about Corrections in Ink and bought a copy. From the online blurb; "Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink, a memoir about addiction, incarceration and building a life after it all.
In her day job, she is a staff writer at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news site dedicated to covering the criminal jutice sustem. Her work focuses on uncovering the worst parts of American prisons, and exposing flaws in the county's criminal justice system. Before coming to TMP, she covered prisons and prosecutors for The Houston Chronicle and her work has also appeared in VICE, the BBC, the New York Daily News, The New York Times and more.
She was part of the Houston Chronicle team whose coverage of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Two years later, she wrote a piece for the Washington Post Magazine's Prison Issue, which won a National Magazine Award. Currently, she lives in Texas."
So far I am really enjoying it.
Megan rated Suffer the children: 5 stars
Suffer the children by Sunday Times Insight Team. (A Futura Book)
Thalidomide was hailed as a wonder drug. A tranquilizer that was to be aggressively marketed as non-toxic, free from side-effects …
Megan started reading Suffer the children by Sunday Times Insight Team. (A Futura Book)
Thalidomide was hailed as a wonder drug. A tranquilizer that was to be aggressively marketed …
Borrowed from my university library today and I’m engrossed already.
Megan rated The Orton diaries: 5 stars
The Orton diaries by Orton, Joe.
Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be …
Megan finished reading The Orton diaries by Orton, Joe.
The Orton diaries by Orton, Joe.
Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be …
Megan reviewed The Virago book of wicked verse
Absolutely Brilliant Anthology of Women's Poetry from the 1990s
5 stars
No poetry collection from different authors is perfect, but this is one of my all-time favourites. It also contains one of the best feminist poems of the 1990s, Rappin' It Up, by Patience Agbabi. That feeling that a lot of us recognize, you're having a nice time, "listenin' to the beauty of your own imagination" when your peace is destroyed by some straight dude deciding to talk to you. The whole book is worth it, the nice thing about anthologies like this one is they're slowly evolving treasures as you dip in and out, each time finding new things to love, and if you're in the UK the best part is there are loads of cheap copies available from used bookdealers.