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[weneedtotalkaboutbooks]

My Reading List... for 2032!

What my Reading List might look like in 2032

You may have already seen my Reading List for 2022, here’s how 2032 is shaping up. Once upon a time I was a conscientious book shopper. Despite considerable temptation, I would resist buying new books until I had finished the ones I was currently reading. My TBR pile, therefore, did not get too out of hand. Then came the GFC and the large bookstores began a massive clear out of stock and I went…

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[aninreh]

Przeczytane: styczeń 2020

Przeczytane: styczeń 2020, czyli krótka obrazkowa opowieść o tym, jak z kupi wstydu powstała Hałda Hańby :

Podobno styczeń jest miesiącem, w którym w glorii i chwale rodzą się noworoczne postanowienia, aby równie szybko odejść w niepamięć [1]. No cóż, chciałam podokańczać nie tyle kupkę wstydu, co hałdę hańby [2], a w zamian tylko dołożyłam do niej kolejne książki…

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[jimivaey]

#InternationalWomensDay: Women Should Be Treated As Someone With P3nis, Adiche

#InternationalWomensDay: Women Should Be Treated As Someone With P3nis, Adiche

Today, March 8 is #InternationalWomensDay, therefore, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a world renowned and multiple award winning writer, has said that she wants women to be treated the same way as men.

Adichie said that the overall goal of her feminist activities was to make feminism unnecessary in the long run. In an interview with The Guardianof London, the award winning novelist said she wanted…

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[cozygurlll]

Just started this book tonight. I’m already in love.

[fauvester]

Some people ask, 'Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest.  Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.  It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.  It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.  That the problem was not about being human, but specifically about being a female human.  For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups, and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group.  It is only fair that the solution to the problem should acknowledge that.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, “We should all be feminists”

[knockingaroundeurope]

Reading Ladies

Although not terribly late in the year, I am proud to say that my New Year Resolution is still in tact and growing stronger by the book – I didn’t choose to quit smoking (though I will one day soon), I most definitely couldn’t make it through January dry and the thought of joining a gym fills me fear and self-consciousness induced mild panic. Instead I resolved to read, not just to read more but…

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[drnels]

He read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of. He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed: nothing was grave, nothing serious, nothing urgent, and most dissolved into ironic nothingness.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie