feature friday

future reads

Welcome Book Lovers

My name is Cyn and thanks for stopping by today. Most weekdays myself and Ann from over at Romancing the Readers(RTR)blog about books. 

Today we are "featuring" a book we hope to read someday (hopefully sooner rather than later) in the future.    

One of the genres I've been reading lately is True Crime and I asked for this book for Christmas and received it. Gulp-it's 512 pages...so yeah I'm hoping I'll get to it soon. While I typically don't read more than one book at once, maybe I'll do that here! 

 

You have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget.

1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious twenty-three-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.

 

Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims.

I'd love to hear any spoiler free thoughts you have about my choice or any books that you hope to read soon so drop some comments below.

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