Chrisbookarama

The voice of Chrisbookarama book blog. Meet me at the blog for my thoughts on the books I read.

[itscolossal]

Artist Kevin Weir Creates Ghostly Animated GIFs Using Archival Photos from the Library of Congress [Sponsor]

[quirkbooks]

Now, we’re not saying that that last one is Miss Peregrine, but….

[mredwardrochester]

what's your least favorite thing about jane?

i love jane eyre more than anything in this entire god forsaken world she’s the best but idk sometimes she blows stuff out of proportion like there was this one time she got mad at me because I used Blanche Ingram to make her jealous and apparently that’s “rude” and “a terrible awful shitty thing to do to another human being,” and then she, like, freaked the fuck out when my wife snuck into her room the night before our wedding and ripped her veil, and she straight up snuck out in the middle of the damn night after she found out I had a wife???? like come on i wish she would just chillax sometimes lmao

[rufiousreader]

Mary Shelley born on this day.Did Sci Fi start with her?

[godotal]

Meanwhile in Florida, the alligators have developed sign making skills.

[hkirkh]

Clearly those gators made that sign themselves.

[meredith-plays]

Why should youngins get all the Back to School goodies? We’ve picked products that put a glam, grown-up spin on the basic supplies you bought for the kids. 

1. Floral America Canvas Poster { littlelow on Etsy, $54 }

2. Marble Blank Notebooks { Poketo, $32 }

3. 12 ct File Folders { Nate Berkus for Target, $5.99 }

4. Notice Board { Universal Expert for West Elm, $45 }

5. Balance Rose Gold Letter Holder { CB2, $9.95 }

6. Colored Pencils in Tin { Shinola Detroit, $15 }

— Post and graphic by Alaina Buzas, Contributor

[tobeshelved]

I put together this little collection of lovely things for your desk for my pal Meredith! That rose gold letter holder is calling my name. 

[chrisbookarama]

Oooooooo!

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

Last night’s VMAs sure looked a lot different from last year…

(via Mic)

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

The Surprisingly Feminist Fitness Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Much of the Physical Culture fare is typical of the health publication genre, but one thing not so common for a magazine launched long before women could vote was its undertones of health feminism. In a 2011 paper published in Media History Monographs titled “The Feminism of Bernarr Macfadden: Physical Culture Magazine and the Empowerment of Women,” author Kathleen L. Endres explores how Macfadden and his editorial team, which included family planning pioneer Margaret Sanger and reform author Upton Sinclair, infused the magazine with physical health-oriented feminist messages. Although Macfadden offered tips on wrinkle removal, preventing gray hairs, keep husbands sexually satisfied and so forth, Physical Culture also railed against corsets and restrictive female clothing, which Macfadden blamed on society’s rampant, anti-woman “prudery.”

[slightlyignorant]

I’d read in this nook.

[chrisbookarama]

I saw shelves like this in a lawyer's office once and I wanted them ever since.

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[teachingliteracy]

darvinasafo

[chrisbookarama]

Aw!

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

Game of Thrones is often celebrated, somewhat dubiously, for offering “complex” female characters — who then are killed, objectified, sexually abused, or otherwise stripped, at least in the televised adaptation, of the power and agency that rendered them compelling. Westeros is a man’s world; the women do their best to scheme within that patriarchal domination, but even a trio of dragons doesn’t make them pass the Bechdel Test. But you know what Outlander has? A woman at its center. That woman, Claire (Caitroina Balfe), is neither hapless nor incompetent.

"Outlander" Is the Feminist Answer to "Game of Thrones"

(via Anne Helen Petersen at Buzzfeed)

[sophie-bg]

Sleepy Hollow Season 2

[questionabletastetheatre]

I thought I couldn’t be more ready for the second season but turns out this exists and I wasn’t ready whoops

Sleepy Hollow: Continuity in plant-based antagonism since episode eight-ish of last season.

[spankulert]

yes I would like this on my ceiling please.

[heyheyrenay]

I am at once both SUPER READY for more Sleepy Hollow and NOT READY AT ALL. WHAT DOES THE FACT THEY REACH PAST EACH OTHER AND FAIL TO TOUCH MEAN?

[annfriedman]

i received this gif in an email from my friend jessica guilfoyle. subject line: “everything”

context

[brandfvckingnew]

okay

today i wore a v-neck to school, something that is totally normal for 99% of the girls there, one of the girls in my french class was wearing one similar to mine in fact.

but my french teacher came up to me and told me that i was out of dress code and that i was asking for something to happen to me.

and all day long i had to slap guys who found it perfectly okay to grab them.

im a 32DDD, 5’1, and 115 pounds. due to this im known around the school as the walking boobs, the girl who grew in other places, and BITS. I constantly get called a whore and a tease. 

Girls are always accusing their boyfriends of sleeping with me.

and there have been times when i have had to tell teachers that my eyes are up here.

i grew boobs in the eighth grade, i was a DD then, and i cant tell you how many fights i got into with guys who thought it was alright to stick their faces in them. 

the point of all of this is that its bullshit. 

i should be able to wear a v neck to school without worrying about who is going to grab my boobs next, or who is going to throw a gum wrapper in them, or what girls are going to say next.

[submissivefeminist]

Fuck that shit! I would report any teacher that needs to be reminded not to stare at your chest. That is not okay in any sense.

Also, I’d say screw slut-shaming, but this isn’t even a matter of dressing how one wants, but a matter of a woman’s natural state being the reason that men think it’s okay to sexual harass or assault her.

Large breasts are not an invitation.

Large breasts are not an invitation.

LARGE BREASTS ARE NOT AN INVITATION.

Are we clear?

xx SF

[quiet-dominant-deactivated20131]

Reblog and Amplify.

[mikeyway0fficial-deactivated201]

I had to reblog this because she’s not even showing that much cleavage. But she’s totally right. Large breasts are NOT AN INVITATION.

[balletbookworm]

Oh honey, come sit down next to me. We can slap all the idiots together.

FYI to the world: her breasts are hers, the size is not an invitation to touching.

[chrisbookarama]

New books!

[awesomepeoplereading]

Kaling reads.

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

Game of Thrones is often celebrated, somewhat dubiously, for offering “complex” female characters — who then are killed, objectified, sexually abused, or otherwise stripped, at least in the televised adaptation, of the power and agency that rendered them compelling. Westeros is a man’s world; the women do their best to scheme within that patriarchal domination, but even a trio of dragons doesn’t make them pass the Bechdel Test. But you know what Outlander has? A woman at its center. That woman, Claire (Caitroina Balfe), is neither hapless nor incompetent.

"Outlander" Is the Feminist Answer to "Game of Thrones"

(via Anne Helen Petersen at Buzzfeed)

[confusedcatsagainstfeminism]

Submission from @jamiejhagen

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Confused Cats Against Feminism is a project of We Hunted the Mammoth:The New Misogyny, tracked and mocked.