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I finished Sue Macy’s Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties today*, and I’m torn between loving how packed full of fascinating information its under-one-hundred-pages were and wishing there were an easier way to absorb it. Macy provides photos and newspaper articles from the 20s and highlights pertinent individuals; it’s all completely relevant, but it makes for all kinds of different text boxes and captions on a page. I had to decide where to pause the main text in order to read all of the surrounding information, and I found myself wishing that the book had been formatted so that a page always ended in a complete sentence. Editorially possible? I have no idea. It’s worth reading regardless; just be aware that continuous flow is not a phrase I’d use to describe it!
On the home front, my oldest had a bizarre defective tooth pulled at the oral surgeon today and did not particularly enjoy the experience. Then again, it’s OUT, and given how much pain it was causing her, she’s still happy it happened…
*And just for the record, I tried reading this one aloud with my picky-about-nonfiction-13-year-old, but I had to finish it alone.