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Dang I just really love this book

These philosophers, despite their wisdom and relevance, remind me so much of how Mary in one of my other books that I’m currently reading says that if she were a man and born in a different place, she herself would come to be a great philosopher among them, and she’s totally right.

There’s no flower I’m quite as obsessed with as pansies and violas and I’ve been going crazy waiting for this book!! Brenna Estrada is an exceptional writer and gardener and I’m in heaven right now

It would be cool to hang out with Montaigne but if I had to be around him or married to him back in the day he may have suffered a tragic and early end

Hui details the lives and studiolos of all these many relevant humanists and philosophers, of which he names a few women included here and there, some of whom also had a studiolo or room to themselves, and I’d love to read his similarly detailed arguments on them! He can definitely make many pages from a quote or two, so I don’t feel that my wish is unrealistic

This page mentions a familiar issue: a woman having to give up her privacy and quiet study/reading time as she has become a mom.

I hope to see Hui talk about these women philosophers and writers through a historically transcendental view as he has done with Machiavelli and others, since he has made it very clear how this is a key component of humanism and the nature of a studiolo.

This is so oversimplified, but so many of these guys are just obsessed with themselves and their book-themed man caves! Hui mentions that, and I hope he gets into it more because I know he has thoughts!!

I’m so excited to finally get into this book, and from the first few pages I already feel like I’m talking to an old uncle or cousin. A mix of indigenous ways and Christianity is common, or has been in my life, in Mexican families, and I can’t wait to see where this book goes.

Amazing book btw. Capitalism is evil.
I’ve also been annoyed when Jane makes the wrong moves in this story, but I swear to the lord that if one more person in this book calls her stupid or silly they’re gonna catch these hands

Gonna make my own little studiolo that’s only about women and queers and indigenous studies and go totally insane in it, try to stop me

I get the feeling that Hui has probably strongly disliked a few fellow bibliophiles and bibliomaniacs in his time, and has probably tried to sneakily sass them off about their obsession with books. I’d lose my mind to see Philomena Cunk interview this guy

And now Ate is a pimp for young women with uteri who need money 🙃 horror

Mae is a traitor and she gets her girls girl card revoked

I love learning about different ages of information throughout history, and how, as with today, an over-abundance of things to learn about can wind up having the opposite intended effect. I’m wondering if Hui will discuss studies that have been lost/destroyed, such as Maya literature, the Library of Alexandria, and the libraries on gender and sexual identity destroyed by the Nazis. Love it so far!

Working around wealthy people often, attitudes exhibited by some characters so far aren’t new concepts to me, but damn do these ultra-wealthy people need an attitude adjustment.

Pregnant women referred to as “hosts” with “incubation periods”, selected based on thinly-veiled racism and misogyny, shocks me but also doesn’t. Billionaires practicing sex-selective IVF is common knowledge/nightmare fuel.

The social commentary goes so hard in this one (also it’s giving me high school/early college jump scares and, for the first time, I’m glad to be a woman and not a young man)
Also also, major migraine-victim representation