Mary Grace McGeehan
@marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social
Talking about children’s books at rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com, living my best 1920s life at mylife100yearsago.com
This book mysteriously appeared in the not-quite-full box of books I mailed to myself from Dublin. What, do they keep copies of NYRB Classics lying around to stop the books from rattling around? Wouldn’t bubble wrap be cheaper?
July 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This book mysteriously appeared in the not-quite-full box of books I mailed to myself from Dublin. What, do they keep copies of NYRB Classics lying around to stop the books from rattling around? Wouldn’t bubble wrap be cheaper?
COVID put the kibosh on my plans to go to the T.S. Eliot International Summer School at Oxford, but as I recovered in Dublin I went ahead and did my seminar project: this blog post on what reviewers thought of Virginia Woolf's 1922 novel Jacob's Room.
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July 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
COVID put the kibosh on my plans to go to the T.S. Eliot International Summer School at Oxford, but as I recovered in Dublin I went ahead and did my seminar project: this blog post on what reviewers thought of Virginia Woolf's 1922 novel Jacob's Room.
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A lot of Americans commemorated this July 4 in a minor key. I was one of them, in COVID isolation in Dublin. I wanted to recognize our country's anniversary in some way, though, so I took a look at magazine covers from 100 years ago: mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/04/j...
July 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A lot of Americans commemorated this July 4 in a minor key. I was one of them, in COVID isolation in Dublin. I wanted to recognize our country's anniversary in some way, though, so I took a look at magazine covers from 100 years ago: mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/04/j...
I returned to the world of 100 years ago to check out the first issue of the New Yorker. The writing was mostly pretty bad, but there were some glimpses of the great magazine it would become.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I returned to the world of 100 years ago to check out the first issue of the New Yorker. The writing was mostly pretty bad, but there were some glimpses of the great magazine it would become.
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The one in Meet Me in St. Louis where they’re square dancing and throwing mandolins around.
January 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The one in Meet Me in St. Louis where they’re square dancing and throwing mandolins around.
I belatedly rang in 1925 on my blog with a countdown of the top posts of 1924. The twenties are in full roar, and I'm looking forward to an eventful year ahead.
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January 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I belatedly rang in 1925 on my blog with a countdown of the top posts of 1924. The twenties are in full roar, and I'm looking forward to an eventful year ahead.
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Annual DC to Cape Town book haul. We’ll see how many of these I get to.
January 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Annual DC to Cape Town book haul. We’ll see how many of these I get to.
It took until 11:20 p.m on New Year’s Eve, but I completed my 2024 book challenge.
January 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It took until 11:20 p.m on New Year’s Eve, but I completed my 2024 book challenge.
For my annual blog post on children's books of 100 years ago, I found a mix of great reads and wouldn't-fly-in-2024 fare. mylife100yearsago.com/2024/12/25/c...
December 26, 2024 at 3:24 PM
For my annual blog post on children's books of 100 years ago, I found a mix of great reads and wouldn't-fly-in-2024 fare. mylife100yearsago.com/2024/12/25/c...
On our latest podcast episode, I introduce Deborah to The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander, the first volume in a Newbery Medal-winning fantasy series based on Welsh mythology.
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June 28, 2024 at 6:44 PM
On our latest podcast episode, I introduce Deborah to The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander, the first volume in a Newbery Medal-winning fantasy series based on Welsh mythology.
rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1532...
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Since the holidays aren't stressful enough, I started a pre-Christmas tradition on my blog a while back of writing about children's books from 100 years ago. Here's the fifth installment. Happy holidays, everyone! mylife100yearsago.com/2023/12/24/c...
December 27, 2023 at 10:14 AM
Since the holidays aren't stressful enough, I started a pre-Christmas tradition on my blog a while back of writing about children's books from 100 years ago. Here's the fifth installment. Happy holidays, everyone! mylife100yearsago.com/2023/12/24/c...
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I belatedly celebrated the holiday by taking a look at Thanksgiving magazine covers from 1923.
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November 24, 2023 at 9:40 PM
Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I belatedly celebrated the holiday by taking a look at Thanksgiving magazine covers from 1923.
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I've been so busy podcasting about children's books that I've been neglecting the world of 100 years ago, but I finally had time to write about my visit in July to 1920s, and 2020s, San Francisco.
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November 5, 2023 at 2:22 PM
I've been so busy podcasting about children's books that I've been neglecting the world of 100 years ago, but I finally had time to write about my visit in July to 1920s, and 2020s, San Francisco.
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Rereading Freaky Friday for our podcast, I loved it as much as I did when I was thirteen, but I had more complicated feelings about author Mary Rodgers' bestselling posthumous memoir, Shy, which was published last year. www.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...
November 4, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Rereading Freaky Friday for our podcast, I loved it as much as I did when I was thirteen, but I had more complicated feelings about author Mary Rodgers' bestselling posthumous memoir, Shy, which was published last year. www.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...
Being on a new platform is like when you thought at the beginning of a school year that you could have a whole new personality. Am considering "obsession with how Adirondack chairs are all over the place all of a sudden."
October 18, 2023 at 11:28 PM
Being on a new platform is like when you thought at the beginning of a school year that you could have a whole new personality. Am considering "obsession with how Adirondack chairs are all over the place all of a sudden."