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Marya

maryaed@wyrms.de

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recovering Victorianist, tech worker, fan of giant books. Portland, OR.

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Nancy Holder: Bleak House (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) (2005, Barnes & Noble Classics)

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J. R. R. Tolkien: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Book (1) One: The Fellowship of the Ring; Book (2) Two: The Two Towers; Book (3) Three (1982, Unwin Paperbacks)
Sophie Cousens: This Time Next Year (2020, Penguin Publishing Group)
Lauren Groff: Matrix (2021, Riverhead Books)

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Rachel Joyce: The Music Shop (Hardcover, Transworld Digital, Transworld Publishers Ltd)
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Stella Gibbons: The woods in winter. (1970, Hodder & Stoughton)

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reviewed Remarkable creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier: Remarkable creatures (2009, HarperCollinsPublishers)

A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this …

Review of 'Remarkable creatures' on 'Goodreads'

This was so excellently unsparing about the lives of spinsters in early Victorian England, and so intriguing about the fossil hunting, both the "science" and the business. Highly recommended.

reviewed The Wilder life by Wendy McClure

Wendy McClure: The Wilder life (2011, Riverhead Books)

In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, …

Review of 'The Wilder life' on 'Goodreads'

I'm not really sure this is a coherent book, but the author is a pleasant and lively companion to ramble with (if you're a lefty sort--she's a little queasy around the End Times evangelicals she meets, which was funny to me but probably wouldn't be to them) and there are quite a lot of interesting facts and anecdotes sprinkled through her story about going hither and yon to see Laura Ingalls Wilder museums and pageants and sites.