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Umut Guney umutguney — This pathbreaking, Pulitzer-prize-winning book is a study of the life, labor, and social connections of a rural midwife, Martha Ballard, based on her manuscript diary in the Maine State Library. A MIDWIFE'S TALE changed the way historians researched and wrote women's history. In the 1970s and '80s, students of women's history primary focused on the records of literate, middle- and upper-class women, and defined their lives as a struggle against the strictures of a patriarchal society. Ulrich, by contrast, chose to study the life of a modestly-educated woman of limited means, and to describe her daily business rather than her conflicts with others. She found that women like Ballard enjoyed a fair amount of autonomy, even power, in early American society: they sold homespun, garden crops, and dairy goods to neighbors; commanded the labor of their daughters and of boarding teenagers from neighboring households; and, in the case of midwives, presided over the rituals of birth and life. (Martha Ballard fulfilled these latter tasks quite well, losing only 19 babies from the 814 births she attended, and providing medical care to dozens of her neighbors). Ulrich's book reminds us that in history, "the petty struggles and small graces of ordinary life" (p. 343) were as important as longer-term struggles for legal equality and citizenship. A note for readers: while the early chapters of Ulrich's book can be slow going, the latter half of the book includes many exciting episodes, including a mass murder and a violent rural insurgency.

Irmali Franco _173e5 — This book was hilarious.

Miléna Latil milenalati15ba — This book is brilliant, wonderful, heartbreaking and amazing...except for the epilogue, which I don't like. At all. If you can handle m/m love stories this book should definitely be on your reading list. I love the characters and D-s progress in this is just so wonderful to experience, how he's continuously growing throughout the book. Also, the love story is as new and testing for him as it is for the reader, and that just melts me. The action story is wonderful and it keeps surprising you, never taking the turns you expect it to. Next time I just won't read the epilogue and pretend that at the end of the last chapter is where the story ends too.

Luiza Fassina lufassina — Another one in my guilty pleasure series. What can I say? I can't resist a crime-fighting cat.

Omar Hossam omarhossam — A good book, but compared to others in the series, a slow starter and too long to reach the end. The final battle was a blockbuster, but could have come sooner. Dolores Umbridge was a terrifically nasty character - blantantly devious and cloying. I reviled her when she was there, and when she left, I wanted her to come back.