Playlist: Mucca's Indie Folk Stuff 1. Gin Wigmore Black Sheep 2. Dessa - Dixon's Girl 3. Betty Soo and Doug Cox - Boxcars 4. Dana Sipos - Blue Ridge 5. Chastity Brown - Man and Gun 6. Dessa - Good Grief 7. Chastity Brown - Drive Slow 8. Ezra Furman - Body Was Made (More stuff than Indie or Folk, admittedly)
Book Recs: Historical Fiction Blindspot: A Novel by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore Romance novel set in Colonial-Era Boston by two massive history nerds who are having immense fun with the tropes and genres of the era.
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner (Seconding above)
Book Recs: Nonefiction A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Expansion of daily life in New England around 1800. Research absolutely breathtaking.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson I was again a very happy panda in research heaven. Show them how it's done, Wilkerson.
Promised The Moon by Stephanie Nolen Best book about the Mercury 13 that I've run into, though some of the information is a little out of date.
Playlist, Recs, Stuff
1. Gin Wigmore Black Sheep
2. Dessa - Dixon's Girl
3. Betty Soo and Doug Cox - Boxcars
4. Dana Sipos - Blue Ridge
5. Chastity Brown - Man and Gun
6. Dessa - Good Grief
7. Chastity Brown - Drive Slow
8. Ezra Furman - Body Was Made
(More stuff than Indie or Folk, admittedly)
Book Recs: Historical Fiction
Blindspot: A Novel by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Romance novel set in Colonial-Era Boston by two massive history nerds who are having immense fun with the tropes and genres of the era.
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
(Seconding above)
Book Recs: Nonefiction
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Expansion of daily life in New England around 1800. Research absolutely breathtaking.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
I was again a very happy panda in research heaven. Show them how it's done, Wilkerson.
Promised The Moon by Stephanie Nolen
Best book about the Mercury 13 that I've run into, though some of the information is a little out of date.