Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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0:00 - intro
0:13 - Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli
0:41 - The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting by Clara Parkes
2:45 - Sister Europe by Nell Zink
11:53 - October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård
17:01 - Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
17:28 - long cue the perfume monologue
18:35 - Back to vespertine
25:01 - How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski
31:31 - Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife by Hetta Howes
34:18 - Liberty, Equality,Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution by Anne Higonnet
41:04 - Books I dnf'd:

Fabric: the hidden history of the material world by victoria finlay
The Fabric of Civilization: How textiles made the word by Virgnia Postrel
Invitation to a Banquet by Fuschsia Dunlop

Shoutout:
@audreyapproved
Yahaira of instagram.com/bitterpurl

Misc Mentioned
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca Peacock
The Biography of Margery Kempe
Eragon by Christopher Paolini

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