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Hidden Figures
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August 1, 2018
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August 31, 2018
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Books of the Month 2019
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August 2018 Book of the Month
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Katherine "Kj" Joslin
Ok, I really loved this book but it was dry and slow going. If you saw the movie and wanted a more detailed history, than this is your book.
I love history, there was a lot of information about the obstacles that African American Women Engineers/Mathematicians had to deal with. I wish there was more of the emotion that was shown in the movie, the facts came across as just that... flat facts

I grew up in the Hampton area so I enjoyed the narrative being set in a place I "knew" ... it was fun to he
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Mar 08, 2019 marked it as tbr-soon  ·  review of another edition
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