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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Why be a Daisy when you can be a Jordan? #booksky #wibookfest

Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 13d

Looking forward to digging into @AngelaFlournoy 's novel of friendship, estrangement, and how time passes after her insights at #wibookfest. @CreeMyles provided a refreshing interview! #booksky

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 14d

I wasn't going to buy another book, but then @jonvhickey read the opening of his book. The writing crackled with energy - irresistable. Can't wait to read this! #wibookfest #booksky

Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 14d

"It was through books that I found community with my experience of consciousness." @melissafebos sharing insights on intimacy, craft, a sustainable and healthy life - and cracking wise while enlightening us. A meaningful presentation, and a lot of laughs. #wibookfest #booksky

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 14d

"Breakthroughs are going to continue to happen, but they will happen without the involvement of the United States." Mark O'Connell on the 1957 International Geophysical Year, which brought scientists - including my birth father - together for the good of humanity. #booksky #wibookfest #climatechange

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 16d

Fascinating stories from the Americana Music community. Free speech, Keith Urban’s boxers, and a life dedicated to supporting songwriters and performers. An important book! @tsaviano.bsky.social with Stephanie Elkins. #wibookfest

Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 17d

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · 17d

Important storytelling about the resilience of Tibetan refugees and the harrowing challenges they overcome to keep their culture alive despite authoritarianism. #booksky #freetibet

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Insightful take on the prescient genius of Virginia Woolf. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Virginia Woolf's ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ Predicted the Future 100 Years Ago

Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now.

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Sep 1

From September 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
#poetry #fascism #democracy #peace
poets.org/poem/septemb...

September 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives

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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · Jan 30

Have you been told to stay away from the South or West sides of Chicago?

Artist and photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson and sociologist Maria Krysan compiled stories from local residents in a new book called “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It.” news.wttw.com/2025/01/29/w...

Were You Ever Told to Avoid the South or West Sides? New Book Shares Stories of Disrupting Segregation

Artist and photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson and sociologist Maria Krysan compiled Chicagoans’ stories in their new book. The goal was to better understand what can happen when people explore often ig...

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Adam Gamoran @agamoran.bsky.social · Aug 9

Great panel at #ASA2025 on teaching about race and racism in Chicago, featuring Tonika Johnson (standing) of Folded Map, Maria Kyrsan (moderator), Ken Garcia-Gonzales of Facing History & Ourselves, Yamali Rodriguez-Gruger @chipubschools.bsky.social & Jessica Marshall @spencerfoundation.bsky.social

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Aug 1

Book haul from Storyhouse Bookpub - Des Moines. I snatched Maggie Smith’s new book in my beak! Excited to dip into Suleika Jouad’s anthology of creative insight. This book by Alexander Chee has been on my TBR forever. #writing #booksky @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @alexanderchee.bsky.social

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jul 13

A slow burn, creepy and atmospheric. Great insight into the solace and frustration of womens' colleges in the 19th century, and a true crime mystery. My thoughts: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #mountholyokecollege #truecrime

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jul 13

It's a palace! It's a mint! It's a zoo! It's a fortress! It's a writing retreat! It's a prison! It's a must-read for anyone visiting the Tower of London - read why here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #London #England #TowerofLondon

Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jul 13

One of my best books read this year. The Antidote by Karen Russell. Superb. Transporting. Deeply creative. Added bonus: it's not set in NYC or LA! www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #newdeal #dustbowl #greatplains #nebraska #pawnee #immigration

Marge Anderson's review of The Antidote

5/5: A Prairie Witch, a basketball-crazed daughter of a murdered mother, a scarecrow, a Black photographer for the New Deal with an enchanted camera, and a Polish bachelor farmer walk into the Dust Bo...

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jul 13

When was the last time you cried at the end of a novel? For this jaded old bookworm, it’s been a minute. See why here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @taylorjenkinsreid.bsky.social #booksky #spaceprogram #1980's #women

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jul 13

Between the treachery and the plague, there’s not enough cloth-of-gold in the world that would make it fun to be a royal in the Middle Ages. My thoughts on this book www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
If you liked Succession, you'll love the power and dysfunction of the York brothers. #booksky

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jun 26

My take on jumping into a series at book #22! Cool premise - recommended! www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social #booksky #venice #corsica #paris #london

Marge Anderson's review of Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22)

3/5: Jumping into a new series at the 22nd book requires a little suspension of disbelief, and in this case, it was a delight. I couldn’t really follow all of the characters, but the ex-head of Israel...

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Over the moon to be with the great Jane Hirshfield. And my commentary on the publication of her collected works - we need #poetry in these dark times. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky

Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jun 25

My review of Jane Harper's Exiles. An evocative trip into Australia's wine region. #booksky #mystery #australia #wine www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Marge Anderson's review of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

3/5: Another evocative immersion into an Aussie landscape by Jane Harper – this time, a small town in the wine region. Almost all of the action happens over two seasons of the local wine festival. Har...

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jun 25

My review of Donna Leon's The Temptation of Forgiveness. Recommend! #booksky #mystery #venice www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Marge Anderson's review of The Temptation of Forgiveness (Commissario Brunetti, #27)

3/5: Guido Brunetti rides again – walking the neighborhoods of Venice, taking coffee breaks, outwitting his boss – all in the interest of busting a scheme to trick mentally vulnerable older people out...

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Careful research, rich imagining. Recommend! My review www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #opera #mariacallas #midcenturystyle

Marge Anderson's review of Diva

3/5: A well-researched and fictionalized account of Maria Callas’ upbringing and longtime affair with Aristotle Onassis. Daisy Goodwin flashes back to Callas’ support of her Greek family by singing to...

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · May 8

Significant evidence that the U.S. is now an autocracy, with a call for civic leaders to follow the grassroots' example and resist.

"NO ONE HAS EVER DEFEATED AUTOCRACY FROM THE SIDELINES.”
#politics
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

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Marge Anderson @margeanderson.bsky.social · May 2

Isn't it great when your monthly reading includes a masterpiece? How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. A fever dream of a memoir. My reviews here: www.goodreads.com/review/list/... #booksky #memoir #history #nobelprize #mixedmedia

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