March 2016 – thoughts of Melissa

I thought an appropriate segue into revisiting this blog would be to discuss some of the books I’ve read recently, how I came to pick them up , and my overall reflections once I’ve finished them.

Many of these books discuss feminism, with a few of them coming onto my reading list as part of Emma Watson’s feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf. The others I mostly picked up on my own, just out of pure searching, or recommendations from others on Goodreads.

Oh, and the best part? I picked up all of these at my local library! FOR FREE! I can’t overstate the importance of libraries and how incredible they are. If you’re interested in a book and perhaps can’t afford to purchase the books, or don’t want to, your local library system is a wonderful resource! (Can you tell I work at a library?)

Without further ado – here are the books.

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This is a task that’s been on my “to-do list” for a long time — a very, very long time. I found this site years ago – http://sh1ft.org/ – which hosts photographic projects; I found a “26 things” one, wherein you’re given 26 words and are instructed to take a photo to represent each word.

Many years later, I’m finally tackling one of the projects. This one is a little different, as it has 13 items and asks that you take two photos for each word in a set list.

Obviously, it’s up to you, the photographer, to interpret each word and determine what kind of photo you want to take for that word. The two photos might be similar, or they may be at completely opposite ends of the spectrum (as with some of mine.) That being said, here’s mine!

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