This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins. The following excerpt is a revelation of how Friedan vigorously espoused feminist principles, long before she penned The Feminine Mystique.A link to a 39-page pamphlet she wrote in 1952 called UE Fights for Women Workers is at the conclusion of this passage. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Fine, a historian at Michigan State University and a co-editor of the first. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of "the problem that has no name": the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women's confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. The Feminine Mystique tends to be hailed simply as the book that started second-wave feminism, said Lisa M. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic-these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Landmark, groundbreaking, classicthese adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. "If you've never read it, read it now." -Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine A 50th-anniversary edition of the trailblazing book that changed women’s lives, with a new introduction by Gail Collins.
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This book is an example of a perfect blend of suspense and horror mixed in with drama and that dystopian vibe. This is one of the books that have been slowly collecting dust in my bookshelf and I am glad I finally picked it up. This time, I chose horror as it’s been a while since I last read one. The only difference is that in the latter they can see where the attack will come but in the former, no.Īfter finishing Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, I decided to move to another genre. In both the Bird Box and The Walking Dead, the characters have to always be on alert, should not let their guards down and be sensitive with their surroundings because they never know when or where the attack will happen. In a Quiet Place, it’s the noise that people avoid doing whilst in The Bird Box, it’s seeing. Reading this book gave me that same eerie sensation that I felt while I was watching A Quiet Place and that same thrilling excitement while watching The Walking Dead. These words best describe Bird Box by Josh Malerman. She is inquisitive, judgmental, distrusting, and filled with shame, and by the time she reaches six, she has a secret she cannot tell. Du Bois' takes an intimate look at race, feminism, love, and family.Īnd then there's Ailey. No more details or words are needed to describe "the city" - it's just the place some of Chicasetta's residents travel to, get lost in, or return from (or not). The Garfields live in "the city" - that's up north, and by the way, every city in Jeffers's novel carries the same moniker. Ailey's sisters are Lydia, the eldest, and Carol Rose, the middle sister. We meet her as a three-year-old, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Specifically, we travel to Chicasetta, a rural town that once upon a time was a plantation, and before that a Creek village.Īiley Pearl Garfield is at the center of this sweeping saga. It focuses on a fictional African American family in Georgia, beginning before the state was Georgia. Spanning two hundred years, it takes an intimate look at race, feminism, love, and family as told by a line of unforgettable Black women from America's South. Dramatic, beautifully written, and compulsively readable, the novel brims from page to page with grand storytelling and heart. Du Bois is an immersive journey through American history. Randy Susan Meyers is the author of The Murderer’s Daughters, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. Robin Black, author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This Unravel a mystery but also, to be moved, page after page.” Is a gripping book with a delicate, tender core. Strength of even imperfect relationships. Understands the fragility of the human heart and also the enduring This novel is a sheer delight.”Ĭlaire LaZebnik, author of Families and Other Nonreturnable Giftsīernier writes as though she were born knowing how to do so. Wedding without a date-and the accompanying hope that maybe you'll meet Totally captures the alienated feeling you get when you're stuck at a “Realistic and romantic by turns, The Singles Is an unflinching exploration of loss and the love that somehow Is a rare novelist who can summon the creative nerve to plumb theĭepths of grief, but that's just what Ann Hood does here with suchĬompassion and grace. M J Rose, author The Book of Lost Fragrances The Comfort of Lies is a powerful, poignant and riveting novel." You and stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.īeautifully written. Terms with the decisions they’ve made and those yet to make will touch Intertwining and heart-wrenching stories of how three women come to Join Porter Square Books for a panel discussion on "The Complications of Love," with Randy Susan Meyers, Anne Hood, and Nicole Bernier, moderated by Meredith Goldstein. When Ginger Kringle is branded to wear the magic red suit, she has to fall in love and get married before Christmas Eve to save the family business. Ĭhristmas Magic is changing and the Kringle Family scrambles to keep up in this fun and romantic, sweet Christmas romance from Author Lucy McConnell. Kringles, Ginger heads off to Clearview, Alaska, where she embarks on a mission to save her family, their home, the elves, the reindeer, and Christmas for children. After being given a list (Santas love lists!) of potential Mr. Christmas Magic is changing and the Kringle Family scrambles to keep up in this fun and romantic, sweet Christmas romance from Author Lucy McConnell. It sits beside its older brother store Readings, which sells all the big kids books such as non-fiction and all genres other than kids and YA.Īs we walked in, my first impressions of the event was very overwhelming as there were already so many people in such a small place, though I am not claustrophobic, I get nervous when I show up late and people are already in place.īeing a Friday night, and not a weekend, there were not many people in the small bookshop and the only Melbourne bloggers I recognised were Sarah and Alex from TheYARoom so after saying Hi, I stuck with my mum and gave her the low-down of what generally goes on at these events. The event was held in Readings Kids, a kids/ young adult bookstore the opened up on Lygon Street in Carlton, Melbourne mid last year. Yesterday (), my mother and I went to the book launch of Ironheart by Jodi McAlister! He grew up in the Napa Valley in the 1950s in a family of readers-conversations often centered on books. Stephen Jordan’s fiction is inspired from living overseas combined with a passion for history. Will he survive? Stephen Evans Jordan Stephen Jordan A highly refined banker, an unconventional relationship results in blackmail ruinous bank politics end his career. *Quick Description – Alexander must reconcile his mother’s elusive past with his present life. Will he withstand the gales that are sweeping through his life? Will he atone for his past dishonesty and be reconciled with those he loves? Or will he too succumb to the Russian wolves? An ex-lover is dying of AIDS and offers Alexander his business, an art dealership that Alexander would love. However, he is blackmailed over an unconventional relationship and loses his job while piecing together Tatiana’s suicide and family secrets. Ignoring Tatiana’s gifts, Alexander has become an international banker and leads a comfortable life in San Francisco. Alexander sees himself as fragile confronting Tatiana’s past is a daunting task. Although Alexander inherited many of Tatiana’s gifts, he wonders if Tatiana’s bequest includes insanity. Tatiana’s imagination kept her past at bay until insanity-the Russian wolves- took her and unleashed Alexander’s mental breakdown. Book SummaryĪlexander adored his mother, Tatiana, an exotic and magical woman. For additional event details and to be part of the booksigning line, visit Anderson’s Bookshop in downtown Naperville or online. These challenges, however, only serve to heighten the impact of the powerful and important novel that sheds light on a global crisis.” “ SOLD is a demanding at at times painful book to read. “McCormick uses language both lyrical and spare to lead the reader into this deeply troubled and troubling world …this is a story of courage, which is precisely what it takes to plant one’s literary work in unfamiliar soil.” This important book was written in their honor.” “Hearbreaking … McCormick’s research for this novel involved interviewing women in Nepal and India, and her depth of detail makes the characters believable and their misery palpable. “McCormick provides readers who live in safety and under protection of the law with a vivid window into a harsh and cruel world-one most would prefer to pretend doesn’t exist.” “The writing is breathtaking in both its simplicity and attention to detail … stunning … this novel is not to be missed.” “An unforgettable account of sexual slavery as it exists now.” The author beautifully balances the harshness of brothel life with the poignant relationships among its residents.” The meaning that emerges out of the fragments of the novel, then, is greater than the sum of its parts. One seldom notices when one is caught in the lyrical web of stories and is taken on a circular trip - for instance, reading about rings around birds’ feet to tiny bird-feeders made of hollowed-out bullets to the rubber bullet that killed Bassam’s daughter, one is led back to rings, drawn around the photographs of dead soldiers. Yet, McCann knows exactly when to pull the thread to give the story the right twist and tug at the heartstrings of the reader. This multifaceted novel, whose title means a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, tells the story of an unlikely friendship amid the. The individual vignettes talk of disparate things, connected by a loose thread of associations - of words, memories, history and, at times, trivia. Apeirogon, by Colum McCann (Random House). The number of sections tellingly refers to the One Thousand and One Nights - tales “gathered at different times in myriad places”. As such, Apeirogon makes an impressive attempt to push the boundaries of established structures of the postmodern novel. Some of these consist of a single line, some just an image. The novel is woven around this concept: it comprises 1,001 vignettes - after reaching the 500th piece, the segments count backwards to 1, with a single story in between. 29 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A quite extraordinary novel. An apeirogon, McCann explains, is a figure with infinite sides that “approaches the shape of a circle, but a magnified view of a small piece appears to be a straight line”. That is not an image I enjoy, at all, no matter how happy the slaves in question profess themselves to be.įortunately, my initial uneasiness did not prove to be wholly warranted. Especially when the opening scene featured a couple characters walking down a hallway lined with slaves with their foreheads bowed to the floor. So I was a little leery starting Captive Prince, with the little I knew about it. unhealthy power-play relationships that are purely about sex with no emotional depth (why yes I am staying the hell away from 50 Shades of Gray). romanticization of any aspects of the former two things.Here are some things I have strong feelings about: |