Reading List 3 of 2024

RIP, Faith Ringgold (1930–2024), Black American fiber artist [quilter], painter, sculptor, author.  

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Covers from 4.4.24 through 4.30.24                      

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 2 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Our local public library system supplied 3 of the books.

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Miscellaneous:

1. [Memoir] I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
2. [Poetry] Drive through the night by L. M. Browning
3. [Science] The Artful Universe, Expanded by John D. Barrow [2011]
4. [SFF] Totem by Laura Perez, translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 184 works; 3,409,629 words
• Star Wars Sequel Trilogy – read 1 work; 9,381 words

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Films & TV:

1. Emma., directed by Autumn de Wilde
2. Finding Dory, directed by Andrew Stanton [2016]
3. Autistic Bikini Queen by Fern Brady
4. Resident Alien ~ 2.11–2.16; 3.01­–­3.03

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Reading List 2 of 2024

RIP, Iris Apfel (1921–2024), Jewish–American fashion designer;     Eleanor Collins (1919–2024), Canada’s First Lady of Jazz;     Gerry Conway (1947–2024), English musician;     Julia Wong Kcomt (1965–2024), Peruvian poet & novelist, of Chinese–Peruvian heritage;     Pigcasso (2016–2024), South African painter, who was a pig;     Pavel Zajíček (1951–2024), Czech poet and musician.

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Covers from 3.20.24 through 3.31.24                    

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I/we own 4 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 5 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 1 of the books.

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SFF:

1. At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard
2. Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones [1998]
3. The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
4. Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn [2008]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 112 works; 1,791,398 words
• Good Omens – read 3 works; 20,128 words
• Imperial Radch – read 3 works; 12,158 words

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Films & TV:

Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki [2001]

• Blown Away ~ season 4
• Bridgerton ~ 2.04
• Loki ~ 2.03–2.04
• Project Runway ~ re-watched season 17
• Resident Alien ~ 1.03, 1.07–1.10; 2-01–2.10…

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Reading List 1 of 2024

RIP, N. Scott Momaday (1934–2024), FN–Kiowa writer & poet, who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction;     Chita Rivera (1933–2024), American actress, singer, dancer;     Tawl Ross (1948–2024), American musician. 

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Covers from 1.15.24 through 2.28.24                    

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I/we own 4 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 7 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 5 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 1 items.

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1. Culinary History of the Finger Lakes [NY] by Laura Winter Falk
2. Sisters In Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) influence on early American feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner
3. [Poetry] A Choreographer’s Cartography by Raman Mundair [2007]
4. [Poetry] Spring tide and Neap tide by Sorley MacLean [1985?]
5. [SFF] To Shape a Dragon’s Breath [Book 1 of Nampeshiweisit] by Moniquill Blackgoose {FN–Wampanoag}

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Sewing:

1. Creative Mending by Hikaru Noguchi
2. Darning by Hikaru Noguchi
3. Mending Life by Nina & Sonya Montenegro
4. Simple Hand Sewing by Laura Strutt

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Art & Design:

1. The Paintings of Charles Burchfield by Nannette Maciejunes and Michael D. Hall [1997]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 297 works; 5,685,721 words

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Films & TV:

1. Epic Train Journeys From Above ~ Outback Railway [AU]; Wilderness Railroad [CA]; Glacier Express [CH]; Darjeeling Himalayan [IN]; Copper Canyon Express [MX]; Bergensbanen [NO]
2. Feud: Capote vs. The Swans ~ 1.01
3. Great Estates of Scotland ~ Dumfries {Prince Charles}
4. Loki ~ 2.01–2.03
5. Project Runway ~ second half of season 17, seasons 18–20; season 16
6. The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne
7. Soul, directed by Pete Docter

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Creative Year in Review ~ 2023

hope; delight; ===surprise===            {orange}

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FIBER ARTS

• 9 months: Wove 77.5 pin loom squares of wool; most with plant-dyed yarn.
• 2 woven squares are conjoined (woven on top of each other).
• 8 wool plaits.   

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EMOTION-COLORWAYS

Began sorting 100ish of my woven squares by emotion-colorway, which process helped me discover 5 new combinations, at least 3 of which have been assigned placeholder names.

• -glas·aoa, 16; ~amelia~, 15
• “Great Lakes (dunes)”, 8
• citrus & delicious oranges overlap, 7
•  hazel·woods, 8; forest-y, 6; /trust yourself/, 5
• “veggies”, 4; heart·greens, 3

• Squares that seemed to be ‘sketches’ of my mood for a few days {as I worked on the shushan albums project}, 5
• 1 square for the month of Scorpio (“seasonal”)
• Squares that may denote as yet undiscovered colorways – 15, naturally dyed; 9, 11, variously dyed

• Squares that repeat elements, in 2 series ~ 5

• Squares (mostly synthetically dyed) set aside for #memade garment, likely a tabard/vest, an additional 52

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WARDROBE

• By fiber, Out: 15 garments, cotton (10), linen (2), wool (3). Reds, yellows, blues, purples; ocher, beiges, optic white. Too much meterage of the wrong greens, the wrong pinks.
• By fiber, In: 13 garments, linen (5), cotton (5), blended-fibers (3); and 1 woven wool band [from EU-NO]. Mostly greens (earthy), pinks & oranges, a bit of sky.

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SHUSHAN ALBUMS //formerly Family Albums :: The Atlas //

• main: 500ish photo prints, 1992–2022
• numerous essay-things, organized by an index [data viz]
• maps
• illustration(s)

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READING

• Read 103 books all the way through.                 (0.735x as many as 2022.)

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FANFIC – on AO3

• Harry Potter ~ Read 1,510 fics, 33.9 million words [99% of total]
• The Avengers (Marvel Movies) ~ Read 9 fics, 46,209 words
• Bridgerton (TV) ~ Read 1 fic, 77,115 words
• Good Omens ~ Read 4 fics, 162,673 words
• Star Wars Sequel Trilogy ~ Read 1 fic, 32,972 words
• Harry Potter crossover [Carry On] ~ Read 1 fic, 15,300 words

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POETRY

~Reading~

• Still in Aniibi’a 6: Added 31 poems by 22 poets in 2023.         Mostly women.                   Alexandra Grilikhes (Jan) – Robert Wrigley (Dec).                 Old favorites, 6; new-to-me, 16.

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~Writing~

• Wrote 2 poems.
• Worked on 1 poem.

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RIVER TIME

3/26, 5/21, (10/28).

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PLANT COMPANIONS & FRIENDS

• Pō ~ after their illness in Dec 2022, they rallied and eventually had 17, then 28, new leaves. But by spring, they’d taken sick again. They died in early May.
• Slyvori still doing well. (Coming up on 7 years together.)
• Ziggl still doing well. No winter flowers. (4 years in November.)
• Imippe doing well. (47 months.)
• Spouse’s succulents are doing well.
• Spouse’s peace lily has been ailing for months.
• This year, windowboxes [oxalis, grasses] are overwintering outside.

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HUMAN-SOCIAL: Self-isolating for entire year. Still masking whenever around people.

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SCHEDULING:             parts of 4 intervals        //I terminated the project in August//

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PHYSICAL HEALTH

• Spouse and I keep current on covid boosters.
• I got the shingles vaccine.

• Mid-Jan: quit wearing retainers.
• Mid-May: injured both of my feet (separately).

• Nutrition ~ The pandemic has not been helpful to either the variety of foods I eat, nor the amounts. So, I’ve begun tracking things. When I can consistently reach weekly goals, I intend to increase them. We’re not there, yet.
• Late Feb: 3 goals set – daily vitamin intake; daily calories of at least 1500; weekly of at least 10,500 calories.
• In 44 wks ~ wkly goal achieved 25/44 (57%), averaging 10,670 calories.
• Vitamins taken all 7 days, happened 20/44; averaging 6 days/wk.

• 4 Fever blister/cold sores in 2023.   
• [1 FB/CS in 2022]
• 4 Migraines in 2023: 3 were visual.  
• [6 Migraines in 2022]
• 11 so-called ½ Migraines.
• [10 so-called ½ Migraines in 2022]
• 0 Styes              [0 styes in 2022]

• “Standing & Walking” ~ 1420.1 hours total. Range (raw): 0.4 to 8 hours per day. Daily average, 3.89 hours. 
• B: 12 (59), 13.08 // P: 22 (11) 

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TRAVEL                          

Finger Lakes region, NY, 2x. (Jun, Jul)

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Reading List 12 of 2023

RIP, A. S. Byatt (1936–2023), British novelist and poet;          Mary Louise Cleave (1947–2023), American engineer and NASA astronaut;         Amp Fiddler (1958–2023), American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer;         Barbara Hotham Iglewski (1938–2023), American microbiologist;         Danutė Kvietkevičiūtė (1939–2023), Lithuanian textile designer;         Graziella Magherini (1927–2023), Italian psychiatrist;         Tom Smothers (1939–2023), American comedian, musician, actor;         Dale Spender (1943–2023), Australian feminist scholar and writer. 

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Covers from 12.4.23 through 12.30.23                  

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 6 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 16 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 5 items.

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Poetry:

1. The Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Tracy K. Smith
2. The Best American Poetry 2022, edited by Matthew Zapruder
3. Above Ground by Clint Smith
4. Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems by Alice Fulton
5. Dream Drawings by N. Scott Momaday [FN–Kiowa]
6. How to Fly (In 10,000 Easy Steps) by Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
8. Pale Colors in a Tall Field by Carl Phillips
9. Terrapin by Wendell Berry
10. The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wright
11. Whale Day by Billy Collins
12. Wound is the Origin of Wonder by Maya C. Popa

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Portraiture:

1. Calder’s Portraits: A New Language by Barbara Zabel
2. Mixed-Media Self-Portraits by Cate Coulacos Prato [2008]
3. The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History by James Hall
4. Self-Portraits by Ernst Rebel

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Art & Design:

1. American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe by Kathy Curry and Esther Adler
2. More is More is More: Today’s Maximalist Interiors by Carl Dellatore
3. Quilt Local by Heather Jones

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Miscellaneous:

1. The Age of Overwhelm by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
2. Offshore Lightning by Saito Nazuna
3. What Are People For? Essays by Wendell Berry [1990]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 195 works; 3,559,056 words

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Films & TV:

1. Naked Attraction ~ season 6 + “Happy Endings” episode
2. Project Runway ~ 17.01–17.08
3. Star Trek: Picard ~ 1.03, 1.04
4. Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig
5. Harry Potter 1, directed by Chris Columbus
6. Harry Potter 2, directed by Chris Columbus
7. Kung Fu Panda 3, directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni
8. Leo, directed by Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim, Robert Marianetti

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Reading List 11 of 2023

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Covers from 11.11.23 through 11.30.23                              

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 5 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 3 of the books.

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Miscellaneous:

1. Boundary Layer: Exploring the genius between worlds by Kem Luther
2. Listening in the Dark: Women reclaiming the power of intuition by Amber Tamblyn
3. Nature’s Palette [Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours] by Princeton University Press
4. We Came in Peace: The story of man in space, edited by James Aswell, et al. [1969]
5. [poetry] The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of peace & renewal, edited by James Crews
6. [queer romance] Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 88 works; 2,149,466 words
• Good Omens – read 1 work; 12,263 words

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Films & TV:

1. Naked Attraction ~ season 4
2. Across the Spider-verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, et al. /// I really liked the first Spider-verse movie (which I saw 3x), but this one was a hot mess that I bailed on 80% through: not just visually exhausted, but emotionally as well///
3. Apollo 11, directed & edited by Todd Douglas Miller
4. Joy Ride, directed by Adele Lim /// both Spouse & I watched this one 2x ///
5. Squaring the Circle: The story of Hipgnosis, directed by Anton Corbijn, written by Trish D Chetty

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Reading List 10 of 2023

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Covers from 10.1.23 through 10.31.23                 

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I/we own 3 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 5 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books.

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Photography:

1. Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography by Michelle Dunn Marsh
2. Sovereign: Photographs by Jocelyn Lee
3. What Could Be by David Hilliard

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Memoir & Biography:

1. Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
2. The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The tragedy and glory of growing up by Evanna Lynch

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter – read 169 works; 3,229,568 words

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Films & TV:

1. Bridgerton ~ season 2
2. Great British Bake-Off ~ season 14
3. Naked Attraction ~ seasons 1–3
4. Sex Education ~ season 4
5. Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn

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Reading List 9 of 2023

Covers from 9.1.23 through 9.29.23                      

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I/we own 2 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 2 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 2 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 1 items.

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First Nations:

1. Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs by Rebecca J. Dobkins
2. Project 562: Changing the way we see Native America by Matika Wilbur {FN–Swinomish & Tulalip}

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Miscellaneous:

1. Heartwood by Barbara Becker
2. Testament of Friendship: The story of Winifred Holtby by Vera Brittain [1981]

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• 2 fandoms ~ Harry Potter – read 208 works; 4,454,513 words // Good Omens –  read 3 works; 18,814 words //

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Films & TV:

1. Classical Albums: Queen – Night at the Opera [1975], directed & edited by Matthew Longfellow
2. Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn
3. Emma., directed by Autumn de Wilde

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Reading List 8 of 2023

RIP, Robbie Robertson (1943–2023), Canadian rocker & songwriter [one of Spouse’s favorites].   

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Covers from 8.1.23 through 8.31.23                      

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I/we own 6 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 2 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 10 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 3 items.

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Art & Design:

1. Elizabeth Blackadder by National Galleries of Scotland, 2011
2. Emily Mason: The Light in Spring by David Ebony, et al.
3. Mackintosh Watercolours by Roger Billcliffe
4. The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
5. Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour by Jovan Nicholson

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Fashion:

1. 50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know by Doria Santlofer [2012]
2. Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 by Sharon Sadako Takeda, et al.
3. Sixties Fashion: from ‘less is more’ to youthquake by Jonathan Walford [2013]

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Poetry:

1. Be Holding by Ross Gay
2. Deluge by Leila Chatti
3. Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
4. We Hope This Reaches You in Time by Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin

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Miscellaneous:

1. Clarity: a photographic dive into Lake Tahoe’s remarkable water by Dylan Silver
2. In Transit: being non-binary in a world of dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson
3. You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: 10 weeks in Birmingham that changed America by Paul Kix
4. [Fiction] The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
5. [Graphic novel] Why You’ll Never Find the One by Sarah Akinterinwa
6. [SFF] Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
7. [SFF] Translation State by Ann Leckie

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• 3 fandoms ~ Harry Potter – read 143 works; 4,600,282 words // Good Omens –  read 2 works; 115,632 words // Star Wars Sequel Trilogy – read 1 work; 33,000 words //

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Films & TV:

1. Baking Show: The Professionals, 7.01, 7.05–7.10
2. Sanditon, season 3

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Reading List 7 of 2023

RIP, Sinéad O’Connor (1966–2023), Irish singer & musician;      Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946–2023), American poet, essayist & lesbian activist;     Remigijus Valiulis (1958–2023), Lithuanian athlete: 1980 gold medalist sprinter;               Evelyn M. Witkin (1921–2023), American geneticist. 

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Covers from 7.2.23 through 7.30.23                      

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I/we own 2 of these items. I watched/read/listened to 6 things via streaming/Instagram/YouTube. Baltimore County Public Library system supplied 4 of the books. Libraries outside of Baltimore County, via Inter-Library Loan, supplied the other 6 items.

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Art & Design:

1. Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism by Kohle Yohannan & Nancy Nolf [1998]
2. New Mexico Artists by UNM Press [1952]

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Fashion:

1. Contemporary Menswear: A Global Guide to Independent Men’s Fashion by Steve Vogel, et al.
2. The Fashion Resource Book: Men by Robert Leach
3. The Fashion Resource Book: Research for Design by Robert Leach
4. [Video] The Quiet History of Adjustable Clothing [from a non-historian] by The Stitchery
5. [Video] Why Did Ladies Ride Side Saddle in the Regency? By Elizabeth Henderson

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Regency Romances:

1. An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
2. Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
3. The Parfit Knight by Juliet Blyth [1986]
4. Sylvester or the Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer

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Miscellaneous:

1. The Age of Overwhelm by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
2. [SFF] The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
3. [SFF] Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto, illustrated by Ann Xu

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~ AO3 Fanfics ~

• Harry Potter  // read 94 works; 2,432,840 words

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Films & TV:

1. Nimona, directed by Nick Bruno & Troy Quane ///massively disappointing
2. Pan Am, 1.01
3. Bridgerton, season 2
4. Sanditon, seasons 1 & 2

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