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The Autobiogaphy of Miss Jane Pittman
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman259 pages© 1982 Ernest Gaines A young girl carries water for both exhausted rebels and the jubilant army chasing them. An elderly lady who has seen sorrow after sorrow visited on herself and her loved … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged Ernest Gaines, race, Southern Literature, women
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns© 2007 Khaled Hosseini372 pages “There is only one, only one skill a woman like you and me needs in life, and they don’t teach it in school . . . Only one skill. And it’s this: … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Central Asia, historical fiction, Middle East, women
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Code Girls
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Codebreakers of World War 2 © 2017 Liza Mundy 640 pages At the outset of World War 2, the United States’ military intelligence apparatus, much like its military, was minimal. Following … Continue reading
Fly Girls
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied the Odds and Made Aviation History© 2018 Keith O’Brien352 pages “Women must try to do things as men have tried. Where they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – … Continue reading
Broad Band
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet © 2018 Claire Evans288 pages When the ENIAC was first displayed for the public, its proponents bragged that it could do complex mathematical calculations in seconds which would have … Continue reading
Factory Girls
Factory Girls : From Village to City in a Changing China© Leslie Chang420 pages China as a whole may have a third more men than women because of the one-child rule and a preference for male children, but in Dongguan … Continue reading
Wild Swans
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China© 1991 Chang Jung525 pages (My edition uses Chang’s family name first, following the Chinese custom.) Read the records of the 20th century totalitarian states, and the number of lives destroyed numbs the brain. Eleven … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 2017 Discovery of Asia, biography, China, collective tyranny, history, memoir, women
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Sister Queens
Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castille480 pages© 2011 Julia Fox Virtually any reader of Tudor fiction is familiar with the sad story of Queen Catherine, the lawful wife of Henry VIII … Continue reading
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings© 1969 Maya Angelou304 pages I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography in the form of a novel, following a young woman’s coming of age as she journeys from a small … Continue reading
Katherine of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen© 2016 Alison Weir624 pages Mention the Tudor court, and invariably people think of Henry VIII and his famed mistress, Anne Boleyn. But the wife Henry abandoned came from a far more interesting family. Catherine … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged Alison Weir, Britain, historical fiction, Tudor England, women
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