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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Finally finished my holiday roundup of 1925 children’s books at the tail end of the holidays. Happy New Year, everyone! mylife100yearsago.com/2026/01/01/c...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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?

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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. mylife100yearsago.com/2025/07/10/v...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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. mylife100yearsago.com/2025/02/28/t...

Cover of New Yorker, February 21, 1925, man in top head looking at a butterfly through a magnifying glass.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The one in Meet Me in St. Louis where they’re square dancing and throwing mandolins around.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

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. mylife100yearsago.com/2025/01/09/t...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Annual DC to Cape Town book haul. We’ll see how many of these I get to.

Pile of books, including Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and Same as it Never Was by Claire Lombardo

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It took until 11:20 p.m on New Year’s Eve, but I completed my 2024 book challenge.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

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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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

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...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! I belatedly celebrated the holiday by taking a look at Thanksgiving magazine covers from 1923. mylife100yearsago.com/2023/11/24/1...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

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. mylife100yearsago.com/2023/11/04/m...

View of San Francisco Bay from the top of a hill.

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

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...

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Mary Grace McGeehan @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

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."

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