Monday, June 10, 2013

Monday: Mailbox/What Am I Reading?/Musings

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. June Host is: Dolce Belleza

Received the following Rest-of June e-book from The University of Chicago Press

Crossing: A Memoir

DEIRDRE N. MCCLOSKEY
282 pages 

We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing—completely and entirely—the gender line. Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McCloskey's account of her painstaking efforts to learn to "be a woman" unearth fundamental questions about gender and identity, and hatreds and anxieties, revealing surprising answers.

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Hosted by Sheila @ One Person's Journey Through a World of BooksWe discuss the books that we've read and what we're planning to read for the week.

I finished reading 
Daughters by Florence Osmund

Currently reading:
Engraved in Stone by Madhulika Liddle

5 comments:

Nise' said...

What did you think of Daughters? I saw it was a freebie. Have a great week.

Anonymous said...

Daughters sounds interesting.

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bermudaonion said...

Ooh, Crossing sounds very interesting.

Mary (Bookfan) said...

Crossing sounds like a good memoir!

Elizabeth said...

Crossing looks quite good.

ENJOY...my It's Monday, What are you Reading Post is separate from my Mailbox Monday post.

ENJOY your week.

Elizabeth
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My Mailbox Monday