Daily Reading (9th February)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from the user's manual to the back of the cereal box!

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[legionseagle]

Various websites about visitor attractions in the West Highlands.
Part of Martin Lawrence, The Yachtsman's Pilot to Skye and North-west Scotland

The opening pages of Bold in her Breeches edited by Jo Stanley, a collective work about women pirates in fact and fiction which is currently winding me up by a rather irritating intro which I think is intended to debunk misconceptions about women pirates and women at sea in general, but in fact goes about reinforcing stereotypes by repeating them as what "everyone knew" or "everyone thought" which they plainly didn't (for example, "This legacy means that the women who did listen to their 'spirit wild' and go to sea by any means, let alone as pirates, were wild and daring in the nineteenth and twentieth century imaginations." So where does that leave Mrs Croft, in one of the quieter novels of one of the more stereotypically retrained and quiet English novelists talking practicalities about the accommodations for women aboard men-of-war during the Napoleonic wars? Forcing women into an exceptionalism which their historical originals did not see does no-one any service.)

[sauscony]

I'm reading Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold.

[ironed_orchid]

Yay! That's on my TBR list.

[ironed_orchid]

Lots of (mostly positive and interesting) blog posts and articles about Beyonce's "Formation" video and Super Bowl appearance.

[nanila]

Excel spreadsheets.