#thewatercure

[glassisland]

“The most surprising thing love taught me was that I wouldn’t do anything differently, despite it all.”

[teachingliteracy]

Pending snow storm? I’m ready. 🤣 #teachingliteracy #thatbooklife #teachersofinstagram #snowstorm2019 #reading #books #library #thewatercure #mysistertheserialkiller #asymmetry #smallspacesbook https://www.instagram.com/p/BsyiMZohceo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fbdhzbseqdal

[adayinbookland]

Look at these beauties! 😍 I’ve been (impatiently) waiting for these to arrive. The Water Cure is a feminist dystopia that sounds incredibly interesting and The Surface Breaks is a feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid 🙌🏻 • • Reading update: I started The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle last night and I’m liking it so far and I’ll probably start North and South tomorrow • • #newbooks #bookhaul #minibookhaul #beautifulcovers #feministbooks #thesurfacebreaks #louiseoneill #thewatercure #sophiemackintosh #unitedbookstagram #dystopianfiction #booksbooksandmorebooks #thelittlemermaid #fairytales #bookishaccount #bookstagramespaña

[adayinbookland]

🌿BOOK REVIEW🌿 The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh • Grace, Lia and Sky live in an isolated island with Mother and King. They live there for their own good, so the outside world won’t infect them. However, one day three men arrive in the island bringing with them destruction. • This is my first read from the Man Booker longlist and I don’t know what I expected from this book but I’m pretty sure it was not what I ended up getting, which doesn’t mean this was bad in any way. However, I do have mixed feelings about it. • There were moments went I was pretty sure the whole point of the story was going over my head and others when I was so engrossed in the narrative I couldn’t put it down. And here is the element I loved the most about this book: the writing. Mackintosh’s writing is beautiful and highly evocative. The use of water and light imagery to describe the world and the emotions was stunning. It felt highly evocative and the tension built by the author made me feel quite claustrophobic. • As a whole, this is a story worth reading but don’t go into it expecting to get answers, because you won’t. • • • Anyone else reading the man booker longlist? Or you don’t really care about literary prizes? 🌷 • • • #thewatercure #sophiemackintosh #manbookerprize #manbookerlonglist #dystopianfiction #womenwriters #feministbooks #bookandmug #bookreviewer #bookstagramespaña #unitedbookstagram #fortheloveofreading https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWGQPZFiYF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1iuz7me5slbki

[adayinbookland]

The lovely Varsha (@between.bookends) tagged me to do the #midyearbookfreakouttag and you can all freak out because at the end of the week July begins 😳 • 🔸Best book so far: Circe by Madeline Miller and Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. I picked the ones I’ve given 5 stars only. 🔸Best sequel you’ve read: I haven’t read many sequels this year (only two) and so they are Career of Evil and Rise of Empire. 🔸Recent release you haven’t read but want to: many, actually, but I’m going with The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang. 🔸Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: I haven’t checked any lists but I know Melmoth by Sarah Perry is coming out in October and you bet, I’m reading that. 🔸Biggest disappointment: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. I wanted to love and adore this book but its plot and pace problems go the better of me. The hype didn’t help either. 🔸Biggest surprise: Bless me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. Had to read it for Uni, never thought I would love it. 🔸Favourite new author: Meena Kandasamy. Her book When I Hit You was mind-blowing. I will read anything she writes next. 🔸A book that made you cry: I cry very easily so crying while reading (either because the book is sad or funny or happy) is normal for me. I’ve teared up a few times reading The Heir of Novron. 🔸A book that made you smile: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. 🔸Most beautiful book you’ve bought this year: Circe by Madeline Miller. The UK edition is a piece of art. 🔸Favorite review you’ve written: once more Circe by Madeline Miller because sometimes I struggle to write reviews for the books I love but with that one, I could express my feelings as I wanted to despite the fangirling. 🔸Books to read before the end of the year: all of them? Honestly, I want to read all and I know I won’t 🤣 (some of the ones I want to read I showed in the picture) • • I tagged some of you if you wanna do it 😊 • #stackofbooks #bookstack #booksoutside #booksofinstragram #thesurfacebreaks #howgreenwasmyvalley #wecrossedabridgeandittrembled #thepapermenagerie #thewatercure #thecityofbrass #childrenofearthandsky #thegirlinthetower #tbrpile #bookstoread #unitedbookstagram #bookstagramit #booksoutofdoors

[annetsagkari]

The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh 🌊 "Love...also taught me that loss is a thing that builds around you. That what feels like safety is often just absence of current harm, and those two things are not the same." The Water Cure I decided to read this book because it was about women who lived on an island, trying to heal women who were hurt by men. It was mesmerizing. I loved how both oneiric and real the universe in this story felt. It's a new favourite of mine. I dived so deep in the story, I lost contact with reality. I got reminded of the constant agony a woman feels in a world created by men, for men. Our never- ending struggle to survive and protect ourselves. I understand why the girls were scared. I am afraid to show my vulnerability to men, to allow them to touch me, to hurt me. What other choice do we have? Our choice to live means that we have to accept this pain, hoping to experience the short glimpses of happiness and love. At least we have our sisters, our mothers, our friends, all the important women in our life to share our pain, to hold our hand and stay by our side. For Lea, Grace and Sky that's all that mattered. "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." Margaret Atwood 🏷️#thewatercure #sophiemackintosh #dystopianfiction #feministfiction #debutnovel #bookstagram #booklover #booksofinstagram #bookaesthetic #booklove #bookphotography #booksofinstagram #bookobsessed #bookish #bookcommunity #readersofinstagram #livrestagram #lecture #literaryfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CLIAS7Hg_1G/?igshid=1l7uu6towi3fw

[trappedinawebb]

“There is a fluidity to his movements, despite his size, that tells me he has never had to justify his existence, has never had to fold himself into a hidden thing, and I wonder what that must be like, to know that your body is irreproachable.” #TheWaterCure #SophieMackintosh (at San Juan, Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5U_WPYl3YM/?igshid=118xqzk35orsa

[wastedwinter]

Underwater, staring at the stained tiles, I scream as loudly as I can. The water kills the sound. Opening my eyes, I turn on to my back and watch the sun through the water, a rippling orb of light. It is at times like these that I can imagine holding myself down until the water floods my lungs, that I realize it wouldn’t even be so hard. The real trick is how and why we continue surviving at all. My chest starts to hurt, but I stay under until the static creeps at my vision, and then I claw to the surface. I stagger out of the water, fall on the recliner and wait as the feeling subsides. A deep gratitude floods my heart. Part of what made the old world so terrible, so prone to destruction, was a total lack of preparation for the personal energies often called feelings. Mother told us about these kinds of energies. Especially dangerous for women, our bodies already so vulnerable in ways that the bodies of men are not. It was a wonder that there were still safe places, islands like ours where women can be healthful and whole.

Part I Father - “The Water Cure” by Sophie Mackintosh