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Laurel Taylor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, Alan Rickman

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman
Laurel TaylorLaurel Taylor

@NPRWeekend Truly, Madly, Deeply—some of the finest acting ever by Juliet Stephenson and the incomparable Alan Rickman

Paperback, 2024

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire, Julia Baird

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Julia Baird
Laurel TaylorLaurel Taylor

Reading Julia Baird’s great biog of Queen Victoria. Young Victoria bemoans being fat at 125lb. She was 4’11”. That’s BMI of 25.2, which was not considered even overweight til 1998 and barely is in that category now. I had thought that beauty standards were looser then, but nope

Paperback, 2017

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Deborah Blum
Laurel TaylorLaurel Taylor

@MaintenancePod Loved the ep. If you want to know more about the early history of food safety, Deborah Blum’s The Poison Squad is a fantastic read. Thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening https://t.co/7fKflFaKvu

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen

Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller

Kim E. Nielsen
Laurel TaylorLaurel Taylor

Reading Kim E. Nielsen’s Beyond the Miracle Worker and this section about John Macy’s book About Women puts me in mind of the Jordan Peterson garbage revealed (in 2 episodes!) by @MaintenancePod. https://t.co/GSwRGwBDSy

Paperback, 2010

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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