Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig | Book Review
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- Here is the first episode in my new series: Under the Spot Hype - a review of Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient disabled body by Rebekah Taussig.
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I love reading a wide variety of books, but with this series I want to shine a spotlight (get it?) on books that I don't think are getting enough hype in the book world - whether that's not many Goodreads reviews, a new book that not many people seem to be talking about, or an older backlist book that deserves some love. I hope you enjoy! Scroll down for timestamps, resources and interview about Sitting Pretty.
Under the Spot Hype Playlist: • Under the Spot Hype: R...
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Timestamps and books mentioned:
0:00 What is Under the Spot Hype?
1:40 Sitting Pretty: book details
2:46 Book synopsis
3:39 Topics covered in Sitting Pretty
4:04 Accessible housing
5:09 "Kindness", independence and inclusive feminism
7:46 Teaching a disability studies class
9:04 Resources and outro!
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✨Resources + Interviews ✨
- Audiobook excerpt: Sitting Pretty: • Sitting Pretty-The Vie...
- Author interview: Excerpt from S4 Episode 5 interview with Rebekah Taussig: • Rebekah Taussig - Disa...
- Literary hub: 'Disability in America: Molly McCully Brown and Rebekah Taussig on Living and Writing 30 Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act': lithub.com/dis...
- Written interview with Publisher's Weekly:
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- Jen Cambell's 'Favourite books of 2020', features Sitting Pretty: • The Best Books of 2020 📚
- Rebekah's article in Time: time.com/59263...
- Full list of interviews and podcasts Rebekah has been in: rebekahtaussig...
If you would like to buy Sitting Pretty (you should!), you can use my Bookshop.org affiliate link: uk.bookshop.or...
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Hi! I'm Jaz, a 26-year-old avid book reader. I started talking about books on the internet over on my blog, Travels in Fiction. However, in 2019, I decided to take the plunge into booktube as I wanted a more casual and fun way to chat about the books I've been loving (and I ramble a lot so it works). Expect lots of LGBTQ+ reads, international fiction and lots of silliness, too!
What a great first ep! Can't wait to watch the rest :D
Thank youuuuu 💛
Just saved it on scribd! Hyped!
Yyayayay!! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
I am so excited about this series!!!
THANK YOU!!
This is so cool!! I love the logo! :D This book sounds great, I haven't read many books about disability and I need to change that!
Thank you so much! I hope you manage to pick it up at some point, it’s really excellent!
I just finished listening to this book and I need EVERYONE to read it, especially able bodied people !! Im disabled myself. My experience is different than Rebekah in the way that I became disabled when I was 18 due to my chronic muscle illness so I've been on both sides, able bodied and disabled but everything she talked about in here was so relatable and needs to be discussed more!
Thank you so much for watching and sharing your experience. I completely agree - it’s such an essential book and is one I am recommending to everyone I know 💛
this book sounds really interesting! lots of important topics
It’s really great - what I said doesn’t even scratch the surface! Thanks for watching ☺️
I'd never heard of this book before but now I definitely want to read it. It sounds like my kind of nonfiction exactly and I'd especially be looking out for this one on audiobook because I like listening to nonfiction that way. Thank you so much for the recommendation (I can't wait for more from this series!)
Thank you so much for watching! I’m so glad it’s piqued your interest / I think it’s definitely one you’ll really enjoy!
Thank you for reviewing this book... I've been trying to decide whether to listen to this book on Audible. 💛
No problem at all, it’s such a good book! I hope you do give it a listen - I loved the audiobook version!
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I listened to the book, it's incredible.
this is such a cool idea for a series! I love hearing about books that aren't all across my timelines so this is such a wonderful resource to find all kinds of less known books.
This means the world, thank you so much Lay! I’m so excited to continue with the series 🥰
Love this series idea so much and I adore the colours of the logo!!!! So pretty! Very excited to see some underhyped books and add them to my TBR
Thank you sophhhhh 💛💛
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Thank you pal 🥺💛
Just finished listening to this audio book. It was a great introduction to the social model of disability and I agree that Rebekah's conversational tone made it such an easy listening experience. Thanks for the video
Yesss completely agree, I definitely learnt a lot about the different models of disability. Thanks for watching!
I'm currently reading this book and I love it so much! I'm glad you talked about it because it is indeed very underrated!
I'm so glad you're reading it - I loved it so much! Thank you for watching 😊
This sounds a really interesting and educational read, just added it to my scribd TBR 🧡
It’s truly wonderful. Ahhh so glad to hear that - I hope you get to it!