I Like Books

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the latest installment of "Building my Library/Books Only I Like"!

It's been an embarrassingly long time since I bought myself any books. The last two books I purchased from Amazon were for some book reviews I had to write for uni two semesters ago, and the last time I bought books for funsies/the expansion of my own personal library, I was still researching for an old Master's thesis topic which has long bit the dust.

Now that I'm done my last exam and am pretty much done my MA excepting the conclusion of my thesis and a lot of bureaucratic nonsense, I've decided to start loving reading and researching again.

So, today and yesterday, I received four awesomely awesome books to help me on my way (I suppose being home to get them is the plus point to locking myself in the flat over Karneval).

I've got:
Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America by Beth Salerno, The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America by Shirley Wilson Logan and Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism edited by Noel S. Anderson and Haroon Kharem.

I already tore through my library's copy of The Abolitionist Sisterhood a good year and a half ago, but it's such a good anthology that I wanted to have it to peruse at my leisure (yeah, I'm the weirdo who does that). As for the rest, although I bought them with the primary purpose of background reading for further research, I hope they'll be of use in sprucing up one of my chapters for my Master's thesis.

Yaaaay! Books! So much more satisfying than a cute pair of heels! (Though I wouldn't say no to the heels, either, if anyone's offering!)