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August 5, 2021
#BookReview for George Gissing’s two outstanding books #theoddwomen #newgrubstreet #books #helenesbooknook #booklove #victorianliterature #feminism
Book quotes “I don’t think . . . there’s much real difference between men and women. That is, there wouldn’t be, if women had fair treatment.” The Odd Women “The art of living is the art of compromise.” New Grub Street Blurbs The Odd Women A novel of social realism, The Odd Women reflects the major sexual […]
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July 29, 2021
#ICYMI Book Review for #yourstorymystory by Connie Palmen #dutchauthor #sylviaplath #tedhughes #helenesbooknook
Book quote “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end,” Sylvia Plath Blurb From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London […]
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July 23, 2021
Book Review for #Odjaki #goodmorningcomrades #portugueseliterature #africanliterature #angola #literatureintranslation #angolanauthor #helenesbooknook
Book quote “ …and then I saw that, in a country, the government’s one thing and the people are another.” Blurb Luanda, Angola, 1990. Ndalu is a normal twelve-year old boy in an extraordinary time and place. Like his friends, he enjoys laughing at his teachers, avoiding homework and telling tall tales. But Ndalu’s teachers […]
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July 18, 2021
Book Review for #ExitWest by #MohsinHamid #immigration #emigration #humanrights #bookclubread #magicalrealism
Book quote “What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living as a human being, reminding oneself of what one was, and so it mattered, and if necessary was worth a fight.” Blurb In a country teetering on the brink […]
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July 12, 2021
Book Review for #TheFiveUntoldLivesoftheWomenKilledbyJacktheRipper by #HallieRubenhold #historical fiction #feminism #womensrights #humanrights
Book quote “When a woman steps out of line and contravenes the feminine norm, whether on social media or on the Victorian street, there is a tacit understanding that someone must put her back in her place.” Blurb Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives […]
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July 9, 2021
The Bird Tribunal #ICYMI #AgnesRavatn #TheBirdTribunal #OrendaBooks @OrendaBooks #throwback #booklove #weekendread #psychologicalthriller
Book quote “…difficult circumstances were good starting points for life changes, great or small.” Blurb TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, […]
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July 5, 2021
#BookReview for Daniela Krien’s three outstanding books #loveinfiveacts #somedaywelltelleachothereverything and #muldental #helenesbooknook #booklove
Book quote “Eat, sleep, love, read, work. It is not more than that. And it is still everything.” Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything “Essen, schlafen, lieben, lesen, arbeiten. Mehr ist es nicht. Und es ist doch alles.” Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen Blurbs Love in five acts Bookseller Paula has lost a child, […]
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July 2, 2021
#BookReview for Florida by Lauren Groff #windmillbooks #laurengroff #shortstories #bookboost #booklove #bookrecommendation #bookblogger
Book quote ‘Words were space carved out of life, warm and safe.’ Blurb In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a human, emotional and psychological nature. Among those navigating it […]
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June 28, 2021
‘Invisible Women’ by Caroline Criado Perez #BookReview #InvisibleWomen @CCriadoPerez
Book quote ‘Researchers have found sex differences in every tissue and organ system in the human body, including the immune system’ Blurb Imagine a world where…· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to […]
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