Book Sale!

Are there book sale haul videos on YouTube? It just occurred to me. Anyway, from our museum book sale I've brought home:

Girl Walks Into A Bar ..., Rachel Dratch - excellent, I've finished it already because I've taken walk-reading back up again. I found it very relatable - she calls herself "Two-Time Dratch" because she never got into things on the first try, she had a pretty normal childhood, terrible dating history, career stalled out ... She accidentally got pregnant at 44 from a guy she'd been having a casual relationship with for six months, and while he moved to NY to be a part of his son's life, they're not married, so that's inspirational to me as someone who sometimes gets intense anxiety about not having a kid yet and not being that interested in getting married. She's a good writer.

Suck It, Wonder Woman!, Olivia Munn - I picked this up because I don't like Olivia Munn and I was hoping it would show me her cool side. Unfortunately, I'm 1/3 in and I dislike her even more. Look, I'm no fan of the Fake Geek Girl thing, but as far as I can tell she and the book are getting a lot of "geek" mileage out of a light level of interest in properties like Star Wars and a willingness to be cool with fans? The parts about her childhood discuss how she totally didn't fit in and was socially ostracized for stupid kid non-reasons, there's no thread in there about how she found herself in comics or DnD or what have you, and she keeps reminding the reader how she's not one of those geeks (read: the undesirable ones). It's uncomfortable. I think I'm going to take it back today.

The Stolen Prince, Hugh Barnes - I came across a reference to this recently and it looks good. About a slave who was raised by Peter the Great and became a super scholar.

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Frances Sheridan - witty fiction written in 1767 by the mother of Richard Brinsley S. in diary style.

Complete Stories, Dorothy Parker

Women in an Industrializing Society: England 1750-1880, Jane Rendall (1990)

Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850, Dianne Dugaw (1989)

To Ornament Their Minds: Sara Pierce's Litchfield Female Academy 1792-1833, Litchfield Historical Society (1993)

Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860, Jane C. Nylander (1993) - I think this has been on my Amazon wishlist for a long time.

Dear Home: the 1901 and 1902 Diary of Mabel Lila Wait, ed. Susan Ward

Women's Life & Work in the Southern Colonies, Julia Cherry Spruill (1938, but reprinted in 1977 and it seems to be good scholarship)

Lord Peter, Dorothy Sayers - all the short stories

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Is anyone interested in my Golden Ponies shoes? They'd probably best fit a 7.5 or 8. I'll give them to you for $20 + shipping if you want.

My plan for today is to get started on the corset ... at some point. Right now I'm internetting and watching Roots, because priorities.

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I cut out the corset pieces (except the bust gussets) and very cleverly did the center back channels and grommets before even trying any piecing. Probably most people realize this is the sensible way to do it, but they're normally one of the last things I do because I hate them.

The waist of the corset is fairly small - maybe too small, but I knew my last corset could have been smaller, so I wanted to make sure that didn't happen. Theoretically it will give me ~3" of reduction, which, uh ... we'll see. This is the next thing up from self-drafted - I looked at the Sebille corset patent, figured out what waist measurement it should have for me, figured out how tall it should be, and drew it. Since it's all vertical with added gussets, that's all it should need.

The pieces look really short, but I've lengthened things too many times because they "look wrong" only to have them turn out too long, so none of that!