Book Reviews! The good, the bad, the crap from the first three months of my reading adventures this year.

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https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/book-reviews-quarter-1-of-2025/

Book Reviews! Quarter 1 Of 2025

That’s a boring title. Sorry. But the exciting part is a passel of book reviews! Some I read, some I listened to. Some rocked, some sucked. Let’s get to the my reviews of books I read/l…

The Carey Adventures

#Free #OnlineEvent: The Greatness of #SylviaPlath

Sarah Ruden joins #LibraryOfAmerica LIVE for a conversation inspired by her book I Am the Arrow: The Life & Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems, published this month by Library of America, with Pulitzer-winning poet Diane Seuss and pre-eminent Plath scholars Heather Clark and Amanda Golden. #Poetry #Literature #Plath #Books #Bookstodon

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The Greatness of Sylvia Plath

With Sarah Ruden, Diane Seuss, Heather Clark, and Amanda Golden

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328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey

One starts by looking for lilacs. But standing in the backyard on a weekday, surrounded by old trees and plants in their first flower and by a city that is dissipating, you find yourself distracted…

InState

Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica: What is #Totalitarianism? Understanding #HannahArendt Now

Registration is required, but there is no fee.

In her masterpiece, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt linked the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism, seeing them as twin manifestations of a terrifying new political system that sought absolute control over all aspects of life. How does this book, which probed the psychology and pathology of the twentieth century, take on new relevance in today’s political landscape?
#FreeEvent #Resist

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What Is Totalitarianism? Understanding Hannah Arendt Now

With David Bromwich, Seyla Benhabib, Roger Berkowitz, and Thomas Wild

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Pinning this for notes as I read through this #LibraryOfAmerica collection of Constance Fenimore Woolson's stories.

The metadata for this is a bit odd, but this is the #LibraryOfAmerica volume of Woolson. It is not a complete collection (which is interesting) but rather collected stories, with a few missing from each of the volumes published during her lifetime and immediately after her death.

Have not read any Woolson previously, and excited by her apparent interest (implicit or explicit) in regionality. Not a whole lot of fiction writers from this period were dwelling on the upper #Midwest!

(comment on Constance Fenimore Woolson)

The Library of the Uncommons

Where Reality and Fiction Intertwine

Free #OnlineEvent sponsored by #LibraryOfAmerica:

The Revolutionary Writings of #BlackAmericans with James G. Basker and Annette Gordon-Reed.

The story told and retold about America’s founding often excludes the Black communities that existed during the Revolution and the early republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era, a new volume from Library of America, changes that.

#USHistory #BlackHistory #RevolutionaryHistory #Histodons #Bookstodon

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The Revolutionary Writings of Black Americans

With James G. Basker and Annette Gordon-Reed

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Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica (July 19): The Enduring Genius of #RayBradbury

In #TheMartianChronicles, #TheIllustratedMan, #Fahrenheit451, and other visionary works melding #ScienceFiction, #horror, #fantasy, and high #literature, Ray Bradbury electrified readers and inspired generations of genre-bending younger writers. Acclaimed authors #ConnieWillis and #KellyLink join LOA Bradbury editor #JonathanREller and #SF expert #GaryKWolfe for a conversation about this American original’s towering legacy.

#SFF #Books #Bookstodon

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The Enduring Genius of Ray Bradbury

“Ray Bradbury never cared about the science, only about the people, which was why the stories worked so well.”—Neil Gaiman

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The Library of America's Story of the Week is, of course, a Mother's Day tale from James Thurber: Lavender with a Difference.

#LibraryOfAmerica #MothersDay #JamesThurber

https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2015/05/lavender-with-difference.html

Lavender with a Difference

A free story every week, sponsored by The Library of America