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A List of Badass Women

Today's reading list is a roundup of badass women--but what does "badass" mean exactly? These are women who don't conform to the norms that have been set out for women as a whole. They may seem intimidating or--that worst of all literary sins--unlikable. These women follow their own path, make sometimes questionable choices, risk screwing … Continue reading A List of Badass Women

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April 10, 2020Alyson Hagy, Badass women, Books, Carmen Maria Machado, Hallie Butler, Leni Zumas, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Megan Hunter, Naomi Alderman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Reading list, Women, Women characters, Women writersLeave a comment
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Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

Today's reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I've tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always … Continue reading Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

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April 9, 2020Books, Cherie Priest, China Mieville, Claire Vaye Watkins, Dave Eggers, David Mitchell, Dexter Palmer, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Margaret Atwood, Michel Faber, Paolo Bacigalupi, PD James, Reading list, Science fictionLeave a comment
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What I’ve Been Reading: Books by Women

Time for an update of what I've been reading lately: three recent publications by women writers that are each, in their own way, unusual and engrossing reads. First up: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, her first novel since The Night Circus, which was a favorite of mine. With The Starless Sea, Morgenstern has written a deeply felt and … Continue reading What I’ve Been Reading: Books by Women

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February 20, 2020Book Reviews, Books, Circe, Erin Morgenstern, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Recent reading, The Handmaid's Tale, The Starless Sea, The Testaments, Women writersLeave a comment
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Reading angry women

“I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger ... for most of my life.” – Audre Lord “Once upon a time / I had enough anger in me to crack crystal” – Kiki Petrosino “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / … Continue reading Reading angry women

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August 1, 2018August 1, 2018A Room of One's Own, Anger, Angry women, Audre Lord, Bad Feminist, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Claire Messud, Come Closer, Feminist fiction, Her Body and Other Parties, Jean Rhy, Joanna Russ, July 2018, Kiki Petrosino, Laurie Penny, Leslie Jamison, Margaret Atwood, Men Explain Things to Me, metoo, Naomi Alderman, NNedi Okorafor, Quotes, Reading list, Rebecca Solnit, Recommended Reading, Roxane Gay, Sara Gran, Sylvia Plath, The Female Man, The Power, The Robber Bride, The Woman Upstairs, The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf, Who Fears Death, Wide Sargasso Sea, Women, Women writers1 Comment
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The Handmaid’s Tale…

Y'all may not have noticed, but I truly love Margaret Atwood. Living The Handmaid's Tale: a real-life horror story. And, in case you didn't realize, The Handmaid's Tale is feminist. Margaret Atwood--high priestess of fiction, yes.

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May 29, 2017August 13, 2017Feminism, Fundamentalism, Handmaid's Tale, Links, Margaret Atwood, ReligionLeave a comment
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Recommended Reading: Hag-Seed

Hag-Seed is Margaret Atwood's contribution to the Hogarth Shakespeare series, which are retellings of Shakespeare plays set in contemporary times. (Previously, I read The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterston, also in this series.) Atwood takes on one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, The Tempest, locating it in the world of small-time Canadian politics. Felix … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Hag-Seed

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January 23, 2017August 13, 2017Hag-Seed, Hogarth Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Recommended Reading, Retelling, The TempestLeave a comment
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Negotiating with the dead: Margaret Atwood on what it means to be a writer

The short book, Negotiating with the Dead, is a collection of six lectures Margaret Atwood gave on writing. This is not a typical writing handbook, dispensing now-cliched advice like "write what you know" and "show, don't tell." Rather, Atwood tackles the question of what does it mean to "be a writer?" What is the writer, anyway, and … Continue reading Negotiating with the dead: Margaret Atwood on what it means to be a writer

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March 13, 2016March 13, 2016Creativity, Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead, Writers, Writing2 Comments
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Reading journal: January wrap-up

Not full reviews or even necessarily recommendations, just some notes on what I've been reading. I will never read all the dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction out there, but I keep trying. This month I read a very early apocalypse story by Jack London: The Scarlet Plague (free to read online). This short story feels like an ur-story … Continue reading Reading journal: January wrap-up

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February 1, 2016May 22, 2017Apocalyptic literature, Dystopia, Jack London, Margaret Atwood, Reading, The Heart Goes Last, The Scarlet PlagueLeave a comment
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Links for readers: Ebooks vs paper redux

"The pile of unread books we have on our bedside tables is often referred to as a graveyard of good intentions. The list of unread books on our Kindles is more of a black hole of fleeting intentions." -- Craig Mod The New York Times says print is far from dead, and Craig Mod asks … Continue reading Links for readers: Ebooks vs paper redux

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October 7, 2015January 10, 2016Atlantic, Banned books, Craig Mod, E-books, Halloween, infographics, Jeff VanderMeer, Kindle, Margaret Atwood, monsters, Paper books, Print publishing, Reader's Corner, realistic fiction, Southern Reach trilogy3 Comments
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Margaret Atwood walks around in a state of wonder…

More great stuff from Margaret Atwood! Brain Pickings shares a short animation that accompanies Atwood's meditation on how technology shapes storytelling. Worth watching.

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October 2, 2015January 10, 2016Brain Pickings, Margaret Atwood, Storytelling, Technology, Writers, Writing1 Comment

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