Read Women discussion

El wrote: "Hope you enjoy it, Karin. I liked it, but I tend to like police procedural type books on occasion. I haven't read the other books in that series yet though."

I liked it, surprisingly.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin by Stephanie Knipper which I won last year from Goodreads Giveaways. I'm finally getting to it. It's tragic and the characters are so real. I feel for them.

I just started We Have Always Lived in the Castle . It's such a classic but somehow I never got around to reading it until now.

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

very good so far, but very heavy subject matter.

I'm reading my first Denise Mina: The Long Drop. It's not what I expected, but that's not such a bad thing.

I just started reading The Sworn Virgin by Kristopher Dukes this weekend, about a young Albanian woman who refuses to comply with what society expects of a young Albanian woman in 1910. Only a little more than 50 pages in, but so far I'm enjoying it more than I originally thought I might.

I am reading Another Country by James Baldwin and loving it.

Taking a break from Baldwin to read Kanae Minato's Confessions, which has been on my TBR for some time. It's both creepy and brilliant.

I'm in 1930's Scotland pre-World War II with The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein which is a prequel to Code Name Verity. I was interested in the Travellers who are central to the plot.

Shomeret wrote: "I'm in 1930's Scotland pre-World War II with The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein which is a prequel to Code Name Verity. I was interested in the Travellers who are cen..."

Do you like it? I share that interest.

Carol wrote: "Shomeret wrote: "I'm in 1930's Scotland pre-World War II with The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein which is a prequel to Code Name Verity. I was interested in the Trave..."

I'm not far enough in to be sure. I liked the opening.

I'm reading The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Loving the discussion and analysis so far.

Tamara wrote: "I'm reading The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Loving the discussion and analysis so far."

That's a great one. Enjoy!

I just started reading Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters, one of my all time favorite authors.
Years ago I read several of the Amelia Peabody mystery series by her.

If anyone is interested in joining me with the above, Vicky Bliss mystery, or would like to read the Amelia Peabody books, I would love to do a buddy read ;).

I am reading The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût. I've wanted to read it for some time but kept selecting other novels instead. I have a feeling I will regret having waited so long.

Hey everyone,
I'm reading Little Dorret by Charles Dickens, and I'm having a rough time reading this. How many sub-plots are there?

Samantha wrote: "Hey everyone,
I'm reading Little Dorret by Charles Dickens, and I'm having a rough time reading this. How many sub-plots are there?"

It's been years since I read any Dickens. But I remember that all his novels have a number of subplots that sort of intertwine.

Jamie wrote: "I just started We Have Always Lived in the Castle . It's such a classic but somehow I never got around to reading it until now."

I heard the audiobook and rrally love the mysterious, "off" characters that Shirley Jackson creates. She paints such a picture with her words and it is always satisfying. When you finish it, tell me if you enjoyed it!

I finished and loved The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût. I recommend it highly. Here's a link to my 5-star review.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I am reading:

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa (a group read with the Middle East and North Africa GR group)
Another Country by James Baldwin, and getting ready to start
Moshi moshi by Banana Yoshimoto

I started Entanglement by Zygmunt Miłoszewski, which takes place in contemporary Poland. It is excellent and just what I needed mid a group of heavy/serious works.

I'm reading North and South for my female authors, Quicksilver because I've wanted to for some time and can fit it into a challenge for some hefty points, and also Goodbye to Berlin for a book discussion.

I'm currently reading American Street by Ibi Zoboi. Zoboi is a Haitian American writer and this is her first novel. It's an intense YA contemporary novel dealing with immigration issues and contains interesting spiritual content.

I started Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson. The jury's still out.

I'm currently reading Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves, the first in a YA historical fantasy trilology. I won it in a Goodreads giveaway last year. The protagonist is the only one in her family who is supposed to have no magical abilities except for being able to break spells. It seems to me that being able to break spells is a magical ability and a very powerful one.

I just started reading You Are Not Like Other Mothers by Angelika Schrobsdorff.

I just started reading a science fiction novella called Home by Nnedi Okorafor, which is the sequel to Binti. Binti, who has had quite an experience at a university on another planet in the first book, is now returning home to Namibia with an alien friend. I expect this to be at least as good as Binti #1 if not even better.

I started reading The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You, a 1971 novel by Dorothy Bryant. At the time it was billed as science fiction, but there's definitely a New Age component to this - not necessarily in a bad way (New Age, for whatever reason tends to get a bad rap). The back cover says: "It has been called a love story, science fiction, Jungian myth and utopian allegory." Pretty interesting so far; curious to see where the story goes as I'm not too far into it just yet, but the protagonist is such a jerk in the beginning that it leads me to think he will probably have some sort of awakening, which could easily be cheesy.

I am currently reading an ARC of Brave New Girls: Stories of Girls Who Science and Scheme which is the second in a series of YA science fiction anthologies that is intended to encourage girls to be interested in science. I like the purpose of the anthology and have read several stories that I liked so far.

I am reading Yesterday by Maria Dermoût. I read and loved The Ten Thousand Things earlier this summer and wanted to hear more of her voice and visit awhile longer in turn of the century Indonesia.

I started The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie. It is wonderful.

I started Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. So far, so good.

Reading In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. As Tamara says above, "so far, so good."

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

I am reading Refuge by Dina Nayeri. I'm only on page 100 and highly recommend it.

I just started Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf. I've never read her before, but I'm interested in the deaf protagonist of this novel.

I am now reading By Light of Hidden Candles by Daniella Levy which alternates between contemporary and historical narratives.

I'm more than halfway through the alternate history fantasy Breath Of Earth by Beth Cato. It takes place in a universe where the dominant form of magic is geomancy. The setting is San Francisco in 1906.

I am reading Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, and Frontier by Can Xue. Frontier is the book club read for the Newest Literary Fiction group this month.

I just started The Exiled by Kati Hiekkapelto which I won from Goodreads Giveaways last year. This is the first Finnish crime novel that I've read which doesn't take place in Finland. Oh, and I'm glad to be reading a woman in translation during Women in Translation month.

Shomeret wrote: "Oh, and I'm glad to be reading a woman in translation during Women in Translation month. "

Thanks for mentioning this event. I nosed around a bit and found

https://womenintranslation.com/

which led me to a link of a new award, The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. It is to be awarded in November, I believe. Here is the list of entries for the inaugural award:

https://womenintranslation.com/2017/0...

If you're on Twitter, there's lots under the hashtag #witmonth

Also the blog of the founder of women in translation month, http://biblibio.blogspot.de/

Alexia wrote: "If you're on Twitter, there's lots under the hashtag #witmonth

Also the blog of the founder of women in translation month, http://biblibio.blogspot.de/"

Don't do twitter - the idea of communicating in 140 characters or less is abhorrent to me. But even so, it's unlikely I would recognize witmonth as something about reading.

Using the list of nominees for the new Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, I started reading Boundary: The Last Summer. There were others on the list I thought I might explore.

I'm making my way through The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story

It's taking me a while to get through but interesting POV definitely.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Alexia wrote: "If you're on Twitter, there's lots under the hashtag #witmonth

Also the blog of the founder of women in translation month, http://biblibio.blogspot.de/"

Don't do twitter - the idea..."

That's the point of Alexia providing the hashtag --so we can look for it :)

Then again, if you don't use the platform, it doesn't matter if you recognize the hashtag, does it?

@alexia - thank you!

I started Things We Lost in the Fire. Is anyone else reading this? I couldn't find the thread for it. I thought we were doing it as a group read. But maybe I made a mistake.

Tamara wrote: "I started Things We Lost in the Fire. Is anyone else reading this? I couldn't find the thread for it. I thought we were doing it as a group read. But maybe I made a mistake."

It did win the poll for the August Around the World group read. Perhaps Louise got busy and didn't get the thread opened yet.

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "It did win the poll for the August Around the World group read. Perhaps Louise got busy and didn't get the thread opened yet...."

Okay. I'm sure she'll get to it soon. Thanks.

Tamara wrote: "I started Things We Lost in the Fire. Is anyone else reading this? I couldn't find the thread for it. I thought we were doing it as a group read. But maybe I made a mistake."

I was looking forward to reading this, but my library's copy has been checked out for the whole of August, so I have little hope I can join in the group read.