My favourite book in October is the one tagged. If you are curious about the other 7 books that I rated 5 stars on Goodreads, they‘re on my monthly stats blog post: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2022/11/october-2022-reading-stats-and-booktube...
Sunday Reads, October 16: audiobook nonfiction; French language ecofeminism; plus early 20th century feminist fiction from Norway
https://youtu.be/gHRU9rpAtgI
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pickI was blown away by this autobiographical novel set in Paris in the early 20th century. The writing is so strong, so evocative, and Alberta is a singular character. She‘s clear about what she rejects, which is pretty much everything expected of her gender & class. What she doesn‘t know is exactly how to move forward creatively, but she‘s determined to figure that out. A beautiful translation from Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokken. #WIT
“I have always been of the opinion that no more needs to be expected of an author than that they should write books.”
-Cora Sandel, quoted in the introduction to the tagged novel
pickBook 2 of the Alberta trilogy is a heartbreaker. Alberta, her parents now dead, has moved to Paris. She leads an aimless life, fraternizing with artists, staying in seedy lodgings, scribbling on scraps of paper but unable to write in a dedicated way. But what does freedom mean? Is not doing a kind of freedom, especially for a woman? Frustrating and yet powerful too.
"Alberta had always had many forms of idling. She frittered away time with virtuosity."
Same, Alberta. Same.
Alberta & Freedom | 
