Laurel Taylor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman
@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
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird
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
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
@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
Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
Kim E. Nielsen
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