Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400 pages
Published: June 26, 2018
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Category: Women’s Fiction
Book Review: Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192 pages
Published: 1928
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Format: Paperback
Pages: 410 pages
Published: August 1938
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Fiction, Classics
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Books By Women: Female Writers To Watch Out For
As much as we like to think much has changed, the literary world is still a male-dominated industry. Women may buy more books than men but that doesn’t account for female writers being overlook in the book world, according to a survey done by VIDA, Women In Literary Arts. But just because the publishing world refuses to progress, that doesn’t mean readers shouldn’t. So in honor of International Women’s Day, let us take the time recognize the female authors. 2018 looks like it is going to be another great year for book written by women. Just check out these ten books and see what great we can anticipate for the rest of the year: Continue reading “Books By Women: Female Writers To Watch Out For”
Book Review: Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400 pages
Published: January 30, 2018
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
Genre: Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Romance
Book Review: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Format: Paperback
Pages: 410 pages
Published: 1913
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Synopsis:
Edith Wharton’s satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had ‘assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel’, but concluded that the book was ‘brilliantly written’, and ‘should be read as a parable’. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father’s money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine’s education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics.
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Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Format: Paperback
Pages: 370 pages
Published: 1985
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Genre: Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
I am still in awe of what I have just finished. That is how emotionally impacted I was. The Handmaid’s Tale is the first book I ever read by Atwood. It was always on my TBR list and with the recent hype surrounding it, I decided to pick it up and start reading it. Never has there been a novel that was a politically correct story and provided an emotional impact, at the same time. You read this and you will grapple with the many issues that the novel sprouts out. The Handmaid’s Tale opens doors to what most people are afraid to look inside. Continue reading “Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood”
Must Read Books That Represent Mental Illness
There needs to be an open discussion about mental health. And what better way to stand up to the stigma than to read fiction books that portray the topic perfectly. Readers appreciate to have characters that we can connect with and see as real people. So for Mental Awareness Month, here is a list of books that portray mental illness more realistically:
All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
Everything Everything – Nicola Yoon
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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Strength in Words: Book Quotes For Women’s History Month
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, let us remember that the fight for equal rights for women is a daily battle and remembering the great women who made a mark in history is not something that should be done for one day, let alone an entire month. We should never forget the contributions these women make. And what better way to recognize them all year round with inspiring words we hear from amazing women or quotes that demonstrate the importance of women in society. Maybe your favorite made the list…
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Book Review: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Paperback
Pages: 589 pages
Published: May 14 , 2013
Publisher: Anchor
Genre: Fiction, Women’s Fiction
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