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I’m Meep: a 20something librarian, originally from New England, living in Tokyo. I eat books and bleed poetry.
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Mistletoe and Murder
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Over The Garden Wall: Tome of the Unknown
Brightwood
The Golden Compass and Philosophy: God Bites the Dust
The Crashers
All the Birds in the Sky
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
A Christmas Carol
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
As a single twentysomething myself, I enjoyed reading about of the "spinsters" and "bachelor girls" of American history, and the changing (and yet oddly ahistorical, unchanging) place of the single woman in popular imagination. Israel shows her research and her writing is clever and readable without sounding too informal and discrediting her ideas.
