Cordelia’s Comments (group member since Jan 09, 2016)

Cordelia’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

Misty wrote: "I am always nervous about the forms because I never know if they really are 'submitted' and hopefully if they are, only once. But anyway, tweeted, tagged a friend on Instagram, and shared to Facebook."

Hi Misty, if you get to the part where it asks you to share, then it's definitely gone through :)

I'm delighted to let you all know that we are extending the deadline! The competition will now be live until 23:59GMT on Friday 29th September. With 600 entries so far, it's still good odds for everyone :)

Laura wrote: "Do I need to enter with the same email address as I use for my goodreads?"

Hi Laura, no you can use any email address :)

Hunger is available as both a book and an e-book on Hive.co.uk if anyone wants to support their local bookshop :)

https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Keyword...

And Bad Feminist too:

https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Keyword...

(Free delivery in the UK / collect from a UK bookshop / they also deliver worldwide)

Ross wrote: "Hello to you to Emma :) do we have the publisher of the book and where we can find the essays are they in print together or separately ?"

Hi Ross! Harpers are the publishers. From my understanding, the essays in Bad Feminist were released together in that book and not before.

Not yet, no - it will appear in announcements when it does. Thank you :)

Cristina wrote: "First time I win something! I'm glad it is this book 😁!"
Congratulations!

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition to win one of 25 copies of The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf! We had a total of 3768 entries (!!) from people around the world - and here are the lucky winners, chosen at random, who entered on the book fairies website:

CONGRATULATIONS to:

Lorenzo in Chile
Veronica in Mexico
Kathleen in Texas, USA
Michelle in Ohio, USA
Madison in Texas, USA
Amy in Illinois, USA
Jayme Arkansas, USA
Stephanie in Ontario, Canada
Isha in Texas, USA
Tania in New Zealand
McKenna in California, USA
Samantha in Cambridge, UK
Elisabeth in Florida, USA
Maura in Massachusetts, USA
Gabriela in Cork, Ireland
Sian in Dublin, Ireland
Amelia in Auckland, New Zealand
Rosie in Lincoln, UK
Arun in Frankfurt, Germany
Cristina in Castellón, Spain
Varsha in Mumbai, India
Ron in Lakewood, USA
Jackie in Pennsylvania, USA
Carmen in Madrid, Spain
Sarvenaz in California, USA

You will receive an email if you are one of the winners, and the books will be sent out as soon as possible. Thanks again to Vintage Classics for these books.

Competition now closed - thank you to everyone who entered! Winners will be announced in the next few days :)

Ross wrote: "Cordelia wrote: "What thoughtful and interesting answers. Thank you so much to Dr. Estés for giving us this extra insight into her writing!

There are so many beautiful phrases that Dr Estés has sa..."
Ross you definitely do every day! :)

Sara wrote: "Cordelia wrote: "Sara wrote: "Hi! I think I just entered... After pressing enter, it got stuck with the message "Book Fairies at work." Is that normal?"
No that's not normal - please try from anoth..."

Phew! No problem at all :)

Andrea wrote: "After lots of trials I did it! Inputs are sensible to other characters, keep it with letters so that it doesn't get stuck with the message "Book fairies at work""

Oh... sorry that it was tricky! Thank you for entering :)

Sara wrote: "Hi! I think I just entered... After pressing enter, it got stuck with the message "Book Fairies at work." Is that normal?"
No that's not normal - please try from another device, sorry! :)

Agnes wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/photo/group...

so small Artwork of mine. :)"
Heehee fantastic!

Chris wrote: "Inspired by your brilliant idea we are trialling a version at my school. We have called ours "#Tag and Release". We are encouraging students to find a "#Tag and Release" book in the playground, rea..."

Yes good luck! We do help out schools so let me know if we can do something together :)

Luna wrote: "Hi, I'm new here, this is my first post and my first book.

I just want to say that The Beauty Myth opened my eyes: I can see myself in a total different light now, I'm learning to accept my body ..."

Wow, thank you for sharing, Luna. Yes, it is crazy how much we let this myth take over - without even realising. When you sit back and think about it, I expect a lot of people can count a few things they do every single day to support the myth.

I thought the book was eye opening :)

What thoughtful and interesting answers. Thank you so much to Dr. Estés for giving us this extra insight into her writing!

There are so many beautiful phrases that Dr Estés has said in her answers above, but the one that probably made the biggest impact on me is:

"I would say with as much love, I am also heartened by men who understand the great feminine force is with them also, that they too are the guardians of the values of the wild great mother, those stalwarts, ‘the men who run with women who run with the wolves.’ "

The Men Who Run With Women Who Run With The Wolves. Fantastic. :)

Fantastic and inspiring words :)

Mariangela wrote: "Benvenuta! 🇮🇹 I believe in book fairies"
Ahhhhh, so good to know that!

Wow, what an amazing response to the competition! Just to let everyone know that the winners will be announced later this week :)