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DebinHawaii
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Pickpick

#Read2025

Finished today for #SheSaid March & it‘s one of those books you can‘t really like because it‘s so damn frustrating especially in our current world but it also an important read. I missed Manne‘s previous book Down Girl but I understand that this book builds & expands on it & focuses on male entitlement & how patriarchy “punishes women for not giving men the moral goods to which they are, by the terms of our social contract entitled.”⬇️

DebinHawaii … Published in 2020, the examples like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, incel gun rampages, and the #MeToo movement are still relevant in 2025 since little has changed & we have even gone further backwards in some respects. Still reading this book, spreading the message & most importantly acting on it are the only ways to bring about change. 16h
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 14h
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid. Posting a bit later today. I hope you are all finishing up with the book and if not learning a lot, at least feeling less alone and “gas lighted” when you are in certain situations and being told it‘s normal, not a problem, etc.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Wow! The tags even posted without issues today! I need to post late more often 🤣 21h
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk last week, I tried for literally hours. Logged out, back in, tried again. Let it sit after I hit enter, tried typing each in individually and then picking from the drop-down list of names. Anything I could think of….and nothing. I gave up after a few hours and just hoped you‘d find it by the tag. Today, copy & pasted the list in and it went right through and popped up as a comment immediately. 2 seconds 21h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Litsy may be gaslighting me 😂 21h
DebinHawaii @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Hah! But how frustrating! I finished the book this morning. It was a good but also frustrating read. 20h
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @DebinHawaii I felt the same, but I also feel better knowing that I‘m not imagining the problems or the scope of the problems 20h
vlwelser I'm glad the tags worked. I'm ready (ish) to jump back in for the next book. I don't have the book yet but it's on hold at the library so forward progress is happening. 19h
AllDebooks I enjoyed this, despite its reiteration of well documented inequalities. Written well with some good insights 11h
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julieclair
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My #MonthlyNonfiction choice for April has been on my TBR forever!

What will everyone else be reading?

peanutnine I've got some poetry books set aside as well as this essay collection on deck 24h
TheBookgeekFrau 🤷🏻‍♀️ Waiting to see what grabs my attention 😂 23h
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mhillis Good Girls Revolt is great 🙌 I‘m thinking about reading 22h
willaful I just stacked A Jane Austen Education so I think I'll go with that. Great cover. 18h
TheAromaofBooks I decided that I should just rummage through my crates of nonfiction books and read the first 300 that I found 😂 I ended up with 10h
Sarahreadstoomuch Honestly not sure yet, but liked the one I read this month 2h
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megnews
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Earlier this year I listened to the author‘s 2 hour abridged presentation of this book but I had to own an unabridged copy. I am only 16 pages in but feel confident in saying every woman should own, read and gift this book. I‘m soaking up every word. It‘s just what I needed on the tail end of a year and a half depression. I know I will be gifting this to both my daughters.

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DebinHawaii
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Pickpick

#Read2025

I started this in February for #AuthorAMonth Roxane Gay after Bad Feminist didn‘t get it completed but wanted to keep reading even if it doesn‘t count. You can‘t really like or love a book of raw essays on rape culture but it can be appreciated & the authors for their bravery & honesty. I think it‘s rare to be a woman who hasn‘t had an experience with harassment, violence & sexual aggression on some level so it‘s a triggering & ⬇️

DebinHawaii … hard to think back on my own experiences that I shrugged off as “not that bad” instead of realizing that they were bad & we‘ve been suffering too long with an acceptance of rape culture on so many levels. Roxane Gay edits the book & the essays are told from different perspectives & all are honest, powerful & moving accounts. Forgot to say I‘m adding this to #MonthlyNonFiction too. (edited) 2d
CatLass007 I learned a lot from Bad Feminist but I had to take it a bit at a time. I‘ll definitely be reading further books by Roxane Gay. 2d
DebinHawaii @CatLass007 Yes, this one is definitely a “bit at a time read” too. Bad Feminist was excellent & I also liked Hunger when I read it a few years ago. (edited) 2d
DieAReader No doubt a very difficult read🫂 2d
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Kenyazero
A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf
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We had the absolute pleasure while visiting Wisconsin of stopping into two excellent bookstores. One was named for the tagged book and almost all of their inventory was #LGBTQIA books, and the other was another queer-owned shop my friends frequent. I even managed to pick up a cozy fantasy by a Wisconsin local author. #Bookstore

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AllDebooks
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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

I'm a day late, but I wanted to join in. The last few months have been awful. However, the last few days, I've started feeling so much better. 🤞I'm out of the cycle of constant asthma flare-ups and chest infections.
My 5 joys are
1) 🌞📚☕️🐞🦋🐦‍⬛🦉
2) The dawn chorus
3) Gloria
4) It's Mother's Day tomorrow, thinking about my beautiful mum, gone for 22 years but never forgotten.
5) My aunt's gorgeous yellow magnolia

AllDebooks Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my aunt's untimely death. Her magnolia that she gifted to me is about to come into bloom. 💔🌸💔 2d
Librarybelle ❤️❤️❤️ 2d
ShelleyBooksie Wonderful that you are starting to feel better ♡♡ 2d
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Deblovestoread Glad you are feeling better. Hope you have a lovely weekend. 2d
AnnCrystal Very nice that you're feeling better 💝💝💝💝💝🙏🏼. 2d
Bookwormjillk 💜💜💜 2d
BooksandCoffee4Me So sorry you‘ve been so sick. Praying you continue to recover and get well soon. 💛 2d
DebinHawaii I love your joys & I‘m so glad you are feeling better. 💛💛💛 Having been on that cycle of asthma flare-ups & chest & sinus stuff last year, I truly understand how awful & exhausting it is. Wishing you ongoing better health. 🙏🏼 2d
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AllDebooks
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Happy #Chatterday 🌞

It is a bloomin' gorgeous spring day. 🌞☕️🌞 I'm sitting in the garden with a coffee. And I actually feel really well today for the first time in months.

How is everyone today?

@Bookwormjillk @dabbe @Cuilin @kelli7990 @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @Catsandbooks

Bookwormjillk Happy Saturday! I'm so glad to hear you're feeling well. What a winter for you!

It's going to be a nice day here too. I'm doing some paperwork now, but planning on hitting a book sale in a bit then spending all the hours possible outside. I have a bunch of seeds I need to plant.
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AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk that sounds like my idea of a perfect day. Enjoy x 2d
Cuilin So glad you‘re having a good day!! 💚We‘re having a winter storm warning till noon tomorrow. 😣 My body is still adjusting to new meds. I‘m going to see David Sedaris Sunday night!! Today will be mostly an indoor day. 📖 2d
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Cuilin @Bookwormjillk Wishing and hoping for spring weather here in New England. Enjoy! 2d
Bookwormjillk @Cuilin hope it comes soon! We seem to have gone straight from winter to summer here. 2d
AnnCrystal Glad you're feeling better 🙏🏼💝. 2d
TheBookHippie @Cuilin Hope your body adapts soon!! It‘s winter here through April at least! 2d
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk have fun!!! 📚📚📚 2d
TheBookHippie I am achy today but I‘ve pushed a lot this week to be able to do things I want to do. Just tea and books! Spring arrives mid May here if we‘re lucky! 2d
TheBookHippie Glad you‘re finally having a good day!!! Yay!! 2d
quietlycuriouskate So glad you are feeling better! Mr K and I had a (necessary) fight, which turned into a deep conversation followed by a walk to the library. On balance it's good, but I'm feeling rather out of sorts ‘cause I hate it when my plans are derailed without warning. 2d
dabbe Glad you're feeling good! 🤩 Pippa had a seizure yesterday, so we're staying in today and taking it easy. She usually needs a day off to recuperate, so books and dog cuddles! Hope everyone is having a lovely day. 🩵💙🩵 2d
AllDebooks @Cuilin Oh wow, #fangirling Let us know what he was like 😀 2d
AllDebooks @AnnCrystal thank you x 2d
AllDebooks @TheBookHippie thank you. Make sure you're well rested. x 2d
AllDebooks @quietlycuriouskate oh dear. Sometimes, it is necessary to clear the air and reach a resolution. I hope the rest of your day came good. X 2d
AllDebooks @dabbe oh no, poor Pippa. Hope she's recovering and you're both making the best of a slow day x 2d
BooksandCoffee4Me I love that phrase: “A bloomin‘ gorgeous spring day” 💛 2d
TheBookHippie @dabbe awe poor pup! 2d
dabbe @AllDebooks TY! 🩵💙🩵 2d
dabbe @TheBookHippie She is such a trooper! 🩵💙🩵 2d
DebinHawaii So glad you are feeling well today! 💜 I‘m at the coffee shop for a bit catching up on reading & cards & relaxing after a busy week. Planning for a mellow weekend. 2d
DebinHawaii @Cuilin I love David Sedaris! @dabbe I hope Pippa recuperates well! 💜 2d
dabbe @DebinHawaii She's resting well today. Poor girl takes 24 pills a day to keep her epilepsy in check, and she still has at least one seizure a month. She's a brave girl. 🖤🐾🖤 2d
AllDebooks @BooksandCoffee4Me ❤️🌸❤️ 11h
AllDebooks @DebinHawaii I hope you had a restful weekend x 11h
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ncsufoxes
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If women didn‘t already feel like everything in society was stacked against them, this book provides the concrete proof. Data heavy book but easy to read. Our society depends so much on women & all of their invisible labor. Women are 50% of the population but we continue to have laws made against us, not for us. “One recent quantitative data analysis has found ‘compelling evidence‘ that countries where women are kept out of positions of power &

ncsufoxes treated as second-class citizens are less likely to be peaceful.” ✊🏻 And always F the patriarchy (edited) 4d
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