Unbelievable Assortment of Weirdest Questions Submitted To NYPL: Crucial Linking, July eight, 2019

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“Earlier than there was Google, individuals used their native public library. And never simply because libraries are filled with books. Librarians had been specifically skilled to assist individuals discover info, or to easily reply a query themselves.

On your studying pleasure, the New York Public Library launched a cache of queries and conundrums referred to as in from the 1940s to the 1980s.”

These are wonderful and I’ve so many follow-up questions!

“Certain, she was sensible and multilingual, writing in Latin and Nahuatl, however how did she do all this from inside a cloister? Good prep work, evidently. Earlier than becoming a member of the convent, she educated herself in a library inherited from her grandfather. As an adolescent, she grew to become a lady-in-waiting to the viceroy’s spouse. Her brains and wit earned her renown within the royal court docket; a gaggle of forty students examined her and granted her the equal of a college diploma (in any other case not possible for a lady to get). As soon as contained in the convent—a life alternative that was just about the one different to marriage—Sor Juana ran a salon for the mental elite of Mexico Metropolis.”

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: scholar, poet, playwright, thinker, composer, and complete badass!

Right here it’s!!!! My cowl for XENI : A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE.
I’m slowly tying all of my books. Xeni’s story ties collectively RAFE and SANCTUARY.
Launch date information coming quickly.
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— Rebekah Weatherspoon (@RdotSpoon) July 1, 2019

This cowl is gorgeous!

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