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Could use less ultra cutesified violation of child labor laws.

The only reason I'm reading this is that, in all these years, I never accumulated sufficient reason to take it off the TBR. Still, I'm enjoying the queer moments (baiting as they may end up being).

There sure are a lot of fearmongering words on the page, but the skull's half full of sawdust and the guts are choked with straw.

So now I can't update shelf tags from the book review itself. What's getting purged now?

Fuck it all...Better to be killed than spoil the pleasure of a two-hour nap.

Beginning to realize Dostoevsky gave me a very skewed idea of what literary classics are like.

Finally got my average rating back up to three stars for 2024. It's just been one of those years I guess.

[S]urvival is not an academic skill.

Had someone then convinced the most honest Stefan Trofimovich, on irrefutable evidence, that he had nothing at all to fear, he would no doubt have been offended.

I don't see how the dignity of women is especially compromised by the use of a strap-on.

We could all stay at home in the kitchen in our aprons squeezing out a baby every time we fuck, but it would do nothing to change the crises of employment, neoliberalism, Christianity, or ecological balance.

I hear there are some women in this town plotting a lesbian revolution. What does this mean about the boy who was shot in the head is what I want to know.

I couldn't believe that it's been six years since my last Bolaño, so here I am.

Figures the author would get fucking weird about queer bodies/desires, but I'm still disappointed.

Approximately one in five women seeking abortion in the Turnaway Study thought abortion was morally wrong or should be illegal.

The narrative would have a much easier time of coming into its own if it didn't ape at constructing a Hannibal Lecter type character as a cornerstone.

Now, take a moment, and think about how much this would all cost. Also, I have adjusted the language used, as the author's argument for unncessary gendering did not provide sufficient justification.

Wonder how it felt to spend thirteen years on this study and this book only to have Roe v Wade overturned two years after this book was published.

I'm glad I can ramp up my reading speed even more when the need calls for it, cause something tells me that this is going to be fingernails-scratching-on-chalkboard all the way through.

I do have to wonder where Goodreads is pulling these extra 2328 books that are supposedly in my collection from. It is truly that miffed that I don't use the 'Want to Read' shelf?

RIP Maryse Condé.

I'm rather fortunate to be coming to this with two Everett works already under my belt. Sure, the hype helped me acquire a copy as quickly as I have, but that's not why I'm here.

A wonderful book that I'm probably going to five star, but I still have to har-dee-har at the "The enclosed instructions might be millennial-proof." Don't put out words you know you're destined to eat, my dear.

No Goodreads, I didn't read a Kindle version of this book that I acquired a physical copy of for my workplace. Never have read a Kindle version, never will.

Yeah, lemme just pile on the extra reading cause checking out the excerpt on Libby ended up being a convenient way to wind down before bed.

Eavan Boland
Nancy Morejón
Alice Walker
Sherley Anne Williams
Yona Wallach
Inés Hernandez
Liz Lochhead
Tsushima Yūko
Marnie Walsh
Gayl Jones
Fawziyya Abu-Khalid
Zabyah Khamis
Loula Anagnostáki
Franca de Armiño
Rosario Ferré
(end of anthologized writers, beginning of critical essays/credits/indices)

The book search isn't even searching for books anymore, isn't it. Else I wouldn't be seeing so much 'top algorithm' filth with not a single word in common with my search string, would I.

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Cristina Peri Ross
Ama Ata Aidoo
Belkis Cuza Malé
Ghadah al-Samman
Khanata Banuna
Ambai
Leilah Assunção

Dacia Maraini
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Judith Rodriguez
Hélène Cixous
Patricia Grace
Bessie Head
Maria Teresa Horta
Maria Velho da Costa
Maria Isabel Barreno
Michèle Lalonde
Nélida Piñon
Caryl Churchill
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Margaret Atwood

Imtraud Morgner
Elena Poniatowska
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Fleur Adcock
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Kamala Das
Diane Di Prima
Malak 'Abd al-Aziz
Inger Christensen
Gülten Dayioğlu
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Tomioka Taeko
Monique Wittig
Assia Djebar
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