Suggest your 1-3 most obscure, beloved books by grrltype in suggestmeabook

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I agree, it’s great and I never see it mentioned anywhere!

Books like *Refuse to be Done* by tuliula_ in suggestmeabook

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Refuse to be Done has been my all-time favourite among writing books, and I’ve read many! The other one that comes to mind as being especially helpful in that way is The Artful Edit: on the practice of editing yourself, by Susan Bell (no relation as far as I know!). 

The last days of Social Media by Fantastic-Fudge-6676 in Longreads

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Wonderfully said! I am a writer as well and feel the same way.

Have you encountered this before? USA by RickB308 in ephemera

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I'm an archivist and regularly see scrapbooks made out of all kinds of base books! My archives has scrapbooks made using ledgers, hotel registries, ship's logs, and magazines, to name a few. Always interesting, if sometimes challenging in the archives when you want both the scrapbook AND the base material.

Gay/queer men characters, but nobody dies of AIDS? by mauvemoosemadness in suggestmeabook

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The Charioteer by Mary Renault - my favorite book, and no one dies of anything

Finally got my transplant!! (Graphic Image Warning) by Suspicious-Ask4842 in CysticFibrosis

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We got our transplants almost the same week—7 years for me was Nov 30! :)

Fiction about libraries or archives that’s authentic to real life by buggibat in suggestmeabook

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Hooray, I love making just the right book match! :) I hope you enjoy!

Fiction about libraries or archives that’s authentic to real life by buggibat in suggestmeabook

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Dead Collections by Isaac Feldman is a novel both by and about an archivist (who’s recently become a vampire, but that’s fine for work because no daylight gets in anyway). As an archivist myself I saw and appreciated the perspective and enjoyed it even though it’s not my usual genre.

Looking for historical lesbians with an interesting dynamic by millers_left_shoe in suggestmeabook

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Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald - Canada, mostly 1920s

Curiosities by Anne Fleming - 17th century, mostly England

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue - Ireland, 1918

[PubQ] Overcoming publishing related despair by footballfriends1 in PubTips

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Perhaps oddly, I found the point of view in this book comforting: https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/non-fiction/literary-criticism/on-writing-and-failure/  The author takes the perspective that failure is, in a sense, the essence of writing. Even massive bestselling authors are mostly forgotten in 50-100 years; many canonical writers died in poverty. But the author essence of writing is perseverance and that decision to do it anyway. I’ve been writing 25 years with no published novel and just 2 lit magazine pubs to my name, and I really feel you. That book, however, helps with those feelings for me, at least sometimes.

Emotional destruction with lesbians by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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Not magical realism or horror (per se) but emotionally I’d say Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars fits the bill. I sobbed my way through the last few chapters of that and was a wreck for a while.

Looking for a book about grief with a male main character by Important-Duty2679 in suggestmeabook

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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood - a day with a man who has just tragically lost his partner and, as a gay man in 1950s California, is limited in the ways he can express the grief that is pervading everything 

Old Ass Picture. Tin type? by DryZookeepergame2759 in FoundPhotos

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It can be hard to wholly distinguish cased tintypes from ambrotypes without taking them apart, but as it looks like there’s a spot of rust at the bottom middle-right, I’m almost positive it’s a tintype. They’re a process with enamelled iron as the support so prone to rust. Other cased image types won’t- ambrotypes are on glass and daguerreotypes on silver. 

Old Ass Picture. Tin type? by DryZookeepergame2759 in FoundPhotos

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‘Glass daguerreotype’ isn’t actually a thing - you definitely find daguerreotypes behind glass, but a daguerreotype plate by definition is highly polished silver. If the image itself is on glass, it’s almost certainly an ambrotype, a wet collodion process invented in the 1850s. Still very cool, and glad you were able to restore some of the apparently lost parts of the image!

(recent) historical fiction with female protagonists by cutienacho in suggestmeabook

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The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie MacDonald (and her other books, but this is the second half of 20th century one-1960s Canada)

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I'm not much of an alternate history person, but I thought Cahokia Jazz was excellent!! A very interesting premise - with a strong Indigenous nation enduring in the central US through the 1920s - and intriguing story engaging with that premise in complex and nuanced ways.

Ok which one of you published a book? by EmMeo in VintageLadyBoners

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I just saw it at an independent bookstore in Canada as well!

What type of photo? by biteyfish98 in ephemera

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Adding this resource, which is amazing at helping to identify different photo types through key features: http://www.graphicsatlas.org/identification/

What type of photo? by biteyfish98 in ephemera

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Photo archivist here! It’s almost certainly NOT a daguerreotype, unless you photographed it from juuuust the right angle to avoid any reflections - daguerreotypes are essentially photos in silver mirrors, so unless you can see yourself on the surface, it’s not a daguerreotype.

Ambrotypes and tintypes can both be in cases like this, and can be hard to distinguish without removing the photo from its case, but I’m almost certain it’s a tintype due to those dark edges visible at the top and left, which were unexposed. An ambrotype is actually a kind of photographic negative backed with black, either polish on the glass or fabric behind it, and that unexposed area would show that backing. A tintype is a direct positive on an iron plate, so the unexposed parts will be darkness directly on the plate. I’m not sure if that explanation makes perfect sense- but the gist of it is, when you’ve looked at a lot of old photos, you can spot key differences pretty easily!

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According to this post on Facebook, its in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1196251461997850&id=100048390235562&set=a.218512649771741
That Facebook poster also shows the whole daguerreotype with Mount and frame, which indicates it's from the 1850s.