Tag: Sylvia Plath

• 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 /…

  Shannon Turlington

  August 1, 2018

  Notebook, Reading

  A 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 writers

• Books by women: A reading list

  In a recent post, I discussed trying to read books written by women. This led me to consider which women authors I would recommend, and I came up with a list of books by women that I think are entertaining and enlightening reads. Of course, I am not the only person to have come up…

  Shannon Turlington

  June 22, 2014

  Reading

  Anne Lamott, Audrey Niffenegger, Charlotte Bronte, Connie Willis, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy L. Sayers, E Annie Proulx, Erin Morgenstern, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Jean Hegland, Jo Walton, Kate Atkinson, Kate Chopin, Kate Wilhelm, Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell, MK Wren, Nancy Kress, Octavia Butler, Patricia Highsmith, PD James, Reading list, Reading women, Sheri S. Tepper, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, Ursula K Le Guin, Women writers, Year of reading women