Lover of classics, French lit student. I actually started reading more modern literature, so it's gonna be fun.
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In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what …
Except for the chapter on Virginia Woolf, this whole book screams "white feminism" to me.
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia …
For various reasons (let's count in the fact that this book is almost 400 pages long), it took me so long to read this book. I didn't know Lucia Berlin before randomly choosing this selection of her best short-stories. 90% of the books I have in my e-book reader are the result of weird lists of "books to read" I've found on the internet while I was panicking about having an empty e-book reader. So I don't know to which category this book used to belong. Was it in the "book to read written by women"? "Book to read if you want to get into contemporary short-stories"? I digress. It's difficult to me to say "I loved this book" because it sounds rather superficial and not accurate. It's complicated, as they say. I was fascinated by this book. Many narrators take the pen, but they seem to be linked together …
For various reasons (let's count in the fact that this book is almost 400 pages long), it took me so long to read this book. I didn't know Lucia Berlin before randomly choosing this selection of her best short-stories. 90% of the books I have in my e-book reader are the result of weird lists of "books to read" I've found on the internet while I was panicking about having an empty e-book reader. So I don't know to which category this book used to belong. Was it in the "book to read written by women"? "Book to read if you want to get into contemporary short-stories"? I digress. It's difficult to me to say "I loved this book" because it sounds rather superficial and not accurate. It's complicated, as they say. I was fascinated by this book. Many narrators take the pen, but they seem to be linked together and a couple of stories in, you understand that it's always her, Lucia, writing about her life. Auto-fiction. You understand it because all these short stories are linked by themes. Alcoholism, the Spanish language, Latin America, working odd jobs... they all come back. Was she even trying to hide it? If after a dozen pages you start to think "I see what you're doing here, Lucia", even style wise, you cannot help but being compelled by her writing. Raw, real. As I am writing this I kinda wish there was more to read about her life, but, at the same time, I feel like I've read it all in this book.
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American …
I love Toni Morrison. That's it. This book was a punch in the gut, a mysterious cloud of strong, hearthy smell envelopping you, the strongest and sweetest dark liquor, all given to you by the softest hands. Her style, oh her style! 🙌 You would not believe she was telling you the most heartwrenching goth story about a mother's love and slavery.
I'm a Toni Morrison stan.
I really had my hopes up for this book but, except for a nice beginning, it felt like it was all over the place. The last chapter had been taken out by the editor but it's now sold separately and... wow! If that ending is not the epitome of all over the place...!
I'm gonna give the movie a try, mainly because, from the pics I've seen, the girls dress just as I'd like to dress everyday.
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an …
I wish I could give this book 5 stars, only for the luscious writing of Iris Murdoch, but I've been left perplexed by some parts of it. My main concern ist the figure of Michael, a character who clearly abuses his position of power to take advantage of young boys. I want to think about this thoroughly, because I feel like it's important for me to consider the importance of this detail in the book's context. I'll probably come out with a better review later on.