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📝Story behind the photo: the State Bar here in Cali is allowed to give me a little hell for the FBI check👑

📝Officially committing to #20in4❣️
📝First weekend truly off work in months. And will be for months☕️

🔴📚Start to half the captioned book. The first Barnes & Noble book club read, 2018; I want 278 of 454 pages📘
🔴📜Write 2500 words📓

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🕉I love and appreciate you☯️

Keeping going on aggressively pink covers this month. This was something that had been on my shelf for a couple of years, and I am sure deep down I knew it was going to scream White Feminist issues and so I put it off. Sort of wish I had just donated it instead of reading it.
The big issue is I am sure most white feminists will not see all the problematic things in this book. Token lesbian who gets screwed over, one line for a Trans character 👎

this book is supposed to be feminist literature about finding your path in life & in the movement, & even though this book is long, I don‘t think it says much. this book is inherently white feminist & catered towards the issues the movement has in privileged circles. it‘s so much build all for our MC to end up with a husband, baby, a brownstone & a best-seller spouting ideas similar to the mentor who betrayed her. no intersectionality in sight.

Book 85
A book about feminisim and finding your voice and place in the world. A well-written novel with compelling characters with interesting lives. Written in third person omniscient pov with Greer as the protagonist, the reader has access into the lives of too many unequally-developed characters. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#patterns #CuriousCovers

Book #5

I liked the story but skimmed quite a bit.

Brilliant prose, layered and emotional story. This book is NOT pop fiction, it‘s literature, which makes it a slower read. Much is beneath the words. Character driven. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#3Books @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

These books made me mad because they had such promising potential to be so much more. And I was infuriated with the leading female characters in them.

I think my expectations were too high going into this read. 😕

It has all the elements of a kickass feminist novel but sadly, I wasn't a fan of any of the characters. At times the book felt more like a list of ideas rather than a story.

First read for #BookSpinBingo this month though. @TheAromaofBooks

I'm a Meg Wolitzer fan. I love all the irony and complicated layers in this book.

“...I think that‘s what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don‘t feel we‘re allowed to be.“

I appreciated the overall message of the book, but I‘m not a big fan. Some characters‘ storylines were interesting, but as a whole, I was pretty bored.

I like Meg Wolitzer. This is a BIG story, encompassing quite a few perspectives. I listened to it at the same time as I read The Future of Another Timeline and The Scarlet Letter. That‘s a lot of fiction involving women and how the world treats them. It was sometimes too much considering the stress of just being right now. Also there‘s a fair amount of sex in this book that listening without headphones while I did chores was 😳with family around

This book follows Greer, an avid reader turned feminist, through college and into her Trump-era early 30s. But it‘s also about the trials of keeping first love alive, losing a sibling, finding and losing a mentor, and betraying your best friend. And Wolitzer takes time to explain the actions of the side characters. That‘s why it‘s so long.

Good, not great. 3.75⭐️

#bookspin! Now I‘ve finished all three!

#easterextravaganza 14:46

Happy Easter 🐣 I hope the Easter bunny came your house today

Let‘s go April!!! #bookspin #doublespin #triplespin

From the Spanish Flu. My son‘s friend walked down the street to chat while my son shot some hoops -from 6 feet away- but proceeded to spit on the ground while they spoke. I‘m not sure WTF he was thinking but everyone involved got this in a text and there is no more chit chat happening. Also my book is a bit to risqué right now to play out loud while I do stuff

Started a new audio book on my daily walk

I‘ve barely dipped into this, but I feel it‘s going to be a HIT. I‘m making tons of margin notes. There are so many wonderful touches that could be missed on a breezy read. I think there should be a movement of making Derek Tenzler: Unwanted t-shirts. #thefemalepersuasion #megwolitzer

When I started reading this book I wasn‘t sure I was going to like it. It wasn‘t my typical read, however just a few chapters into it I was hooked! I found myself drawn into the lives of all the characters. I wanted to keep reading because I wanted to know what celebrations or heartaches each character was having. I really enjoyed the book! #bnbookclub

Certainly pertinent in these interesting times of the undoing of feminist ideals. I‘m giving it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Airport bookstore browsing!

#kindledeal on this previous B&N book club read! It was pretty good!

I really liked this! I didn‘t want to stop listening to it. I thought it might be a five star read but the middle meandered a bit too much to make it perfect. Solid four stars for sure though. I love coming of age stories, and the feminist angle was really good as well.

Does anyone else get really attached to some narrators, or overly associate them with a book/character/author? Rebecca Lowman narrated all of Rainbow Rowells books so now I‘m listening to this I am loving it because it feels like Rainbow Rowell to me, lol.

I got this book from the library and started it yesterday. #currentlyreading

#bookandbeach

Beachside reading on the northern shores #bookandbeer

Can‘t say I loved the central characters of Wolitzer‘s novel about what it means to be a woman. The most interesting character arc in the novel actually belonged to a guy. Go figure. Full review at theludicreader.com

I may or may not have overpacked for the summer hols.🤷🏻‍♀️

6-13-19: My 47th finished book of 2019! #thefemalepersuasion #megwolitzer 👍🏼📖#️⃣4️⃣7️⃣

I really enjoyed this coming of age story of Greer who feels her path is set out ahead of her but then meets powerful feminist Faith Frank at which point her life takes a different route. Spanning several decades the book mainly follows Greer but also her best friend, her boyfriend and Faith Frank herself. I was fully absorbed in each character and the exploration of feminism and power but mainly this was just a very readable, well written story.

Currently reading.

If you are feminist read this, it is a fiction book but the topics discussed are relatable and definitely a read for millennials. Any generation can appreciate this book.

The story of Greer who we meet as a college freshman at the beginning of the century and follow up to the present day. The story principally concerns the influence on Greer's life of a famous feminist, Faith Frank. Wolitzer is great at creating believable, flawed characters and making us care about them. The "plot" revolves around one moment of selfish, careless betrayal and a horrific tragedy which hits the reader like a punch to the face.

Meg Wolitzer is quickly becoming an auto-buy author for me. With the exception of The Uncoupling which I LOATHED, I find so much common cause with her characters‘s lives and fears and dreams, even if my personal circumstances don‘t mirror theirs. I found this utterly compelling and eminently readable. 4🌟.

The ultimate Sunday Funday. 🏖🏝

I liked this one.... I did t have any expectations going into this. I listened to the audiobook. The narrator did a good job changing voices for all the characters. The ending got a bit confusing because it jumped around from character perspectives when the majority of the book was one perspective.

I‘m not sure why but for some reason Meg Wolitzer‘s books just feel insincere. This story meant to be a rallying cry to young activists and feminist felt forced. Ask me next week the characters names and I‘m sure I won‘t be able to recall. A fast read but not one with staying power. #BorrowNotBuy #MoreMehThanYeah Thank you @LibrarianRyan for the blow dryer trick😉That pesky sticker came right off‼️

I was out last night and two women recommend this book to me...since I own it I thought I‘d give it a try. I don‘t have much luck with Meg Wolitzer but I‘m going in with an open mind. That darn B&N sticker won‘t come off 😩

Currently reading! Has anybody else read this book? I read Wolitzer‘s book The Interestings last year and I loved it. Hope I feel the same with this one

Listening to The Unabridged podcast for the first time! Yay Littens!

Meg Wolitzer was one of my favorite speakers at the 2018 National Book Festival, where she focused on her book The Female Persuasion (which I hadn't yet read). Now, reading this book for the Unabridged Book Club, I'm happy to say that the book lived up to its promise. (continued in comments)

Don't really have a #februaryTBR because I'm a mood reader 😅 but I intend to read either of this first. Still haven't decided. The Female Persuasion called out to me from my TBR stack, The Sympathizer was chosen by my 2yo lol

Which would you suggest I read first? I'm undecided. Pls help! 😁🙏

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