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Starting the year with The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir. I love this cover!! #firstbook

I almost gave up on this so many times…I felt that I was not connecting to the stories, they felt a little bit too whiny for my taste 🤷🏽‍♀️

But, I decided to be patient with it and I started enjoying it more. Overall, a very good book!

I think I‘ve over-saturated myself with these kind of stories and I was growing impatient with this one.

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A friend recommended this and my library hold came in 😅

Finished the first of the three stories. The narrator is dealing with the disappointment that her adult son did not turn out to be the man she hoped, as well as the realization that at her age her work is becoming less important, less original. It all seemed very realistic.

Side note: this is an interesting one to read in public. 😂 Anyone else read something that makes people look twice?

Bailed @ 20%. This book bores me terribly! I tried.. I really did. It was only about 200+ pages and yet I struggled to continue. It's very unfortunate because the book cover really caught my eye. Also, don't trust Goodreads rating. I personally don't think it deserves the 4 stars.

This woman was a genius. This is 3 short stories. Basically about different types of loss. And the title story is epistolary which is 100% my jam.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

A little light reading for the morning commute. I like a book that easily fits in my purse. 🚂📖

“Intelligence withers if it is not fed.”

Three short stories, three women, each has suffered a terrible and dreadful loss: a daughter, a husband, her youth, but most of all they lost their self-confidence and connection with their own identity. They each struggle to cope with the crisis in their own way, tame the rage that consumes them and silence a mind which disconnects them from reality. Mid-life is definitely a complicated and challenging time in a woman's life...

"No point in badgering Luce Couturier anymore. Maurice will have had her told off by her husband. And he would tell Maurice that I had seen her again."
Ah, the days before second-wave feminism. ?

"I had the feeling of being at the bottom of a grave, with the blood frozen in my veins, unable either to stir or to weep."

Nope, never mind. Kill his ass. Make it messy. And THEN take up with one of his hot young coworkers.

Monique needs to just shock the monkey with one of her husband's hot young coworkers. That would bring Maurice's cheating ass right back. Or it would just hurt his feelings. It's a win either way.

"(What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)"

#integrateyourshelf

This week we‘re looking at LGBTQIA+ books! Book shops often push queer books as romance but there‘s a huge variety that gets promoted less, so I love getting recommendations!

This year I‘ve read 17 LGBTQIA+ books which I think were all #ownvoices. It‘s difficult to be sure how authors identify so it‘s only ever going to be rough numbers. Tagged short stories by my bisexual goddess and main historical crush Simone de Beauvoir

#7days7books Day 7

Presenting books that changed me or left a deep impression on me.

Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors so I follow her on Instagram. A few months ago I saw she was reading this book from my tbr. I asked how she liked it and she said it was good. So I feel cool. And now I need to read it too.
It‘s written by an author from #France.
🌸 Taken with my sister‘s flowers.
#letstraveljuly
@OriginalCyn620
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Section 2 of secondary TBR up for promotion to the primary stack 😊 Tagged book is the blue hardcover 4 down from the top left. #askLitsy

“There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!“

I could keep quoting from this book forever. It‘s so good and thought provoking. Read it 💜

Soooo I had a few extra minutes after work and randomly picked a bookstore I could get to on the way to the train and found this G O R G E O U S French bookstore on the Upper East Side. How have I not been here before?!!

I thought it was more than appropriate that I finally get the tagged book by Simone de Beauvoir which I‘d been eyeing for years 😍

Do you like short stories? Do you like short stories about women? Do you like fascinating but slightly depressing short stories about women that make you ruminate on the degradation of love and the decay of passion? You'll love this book! Simone de Beauvoir's masterful and raw stories are worth the read this Writer Crush Wednesday. #wcw #writercrushwednesday #writercrush #simonedebeauvoir #shortstories #shortreads | https://buff.ly/2jIvfjl

I dig these placards on the Madrid subway, promoting reading by posting fragments of text at eye level, each just long enough to scan during a short ride - with links to further info, and all works available in little library modules in about ten different stations.

"I've shown women as they are, as divided, and not as they ought to be"
Finding unity through a celebration and recognition of our diversity #ImEveryWoman #Fiercefeb
@Cinfhen @batsy

I'm back :) Did you miss me?

Good news: there's a new indie bookstore in town and so purchased this collection of novellas & short stories by Simone. Nobody describes Paris quite like her.

"The card-indexes and blank paper on my desk urged me to work; but there were words dancing in my head that prevented me from concentrating."

#readwomen #ReadingWomenMonth

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

First attempt at Simone de Beauvior and really liked this novel. Her female characters are so strong minded!