Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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0:00 - everyone be kind to me bc my eye hurts
1:30 - Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda
6:56 - A Leopard Skin Hat by Anne Serre
12:26 - Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
19:03 - Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
23:05 - Crimson Month by Kristen Ciccarelli: Heartless Hunter & Rebel Witch
28:59 - The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark
35:00 - Cough break sorry
35:35 - Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney
44:06 - Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
52:00 - Religion adds texture!!! And, I forgot to mention that the courts were obsessed with Mary Magdalene and there was lots of great imagery

Misc Books Mentioned:
Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose
Filterworld by Kyle Chykka
Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
If Only by Vigdis Hjorth

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