pickInteresting and thought-provoking essay by Ursula K. Le Guin which deserves a PICK but accompanied by a foreword by Donna Haraway that I didn't understand at all and would have been a BAIL if it hadn't been so short.
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pickInteresting and thought-provoking essay by Ursula K. Le Guin which deserves a PICK but accompanied by a foreword by Donna Haraway that I didn't understand at all and would have been a BAIL if it hadn't been so short.
Today is UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in remembrance of the Sharpeville massacre. There are demos planned all over the world tomorrow (March, 22) https://worldagainstracism.org/2025-waraf/map-of-actions-2025/ to protest against the rise of far-right, racist governments and fascism.
Current read. Every page offers something fresh - a reflection, consideration. I am loving it. P22 “as Virginia Woolf well knew, “killing the angel in the house was part of the occupation of a woman writer.” The violence was necessary; without it, that Angel - sympathetic, charming, unselfish (if there was a chicken she would take the leg; if there was a draft she‘d sit in it) - would have plucked the heart out of my writing.”
February was just not a good month for reading. Tagged and Omelas were both re-reads I let myself put on the card so it would look nicer. Besides, if you haven't read Eco's “Ur Fascism“, you should. Personal highlight was Beck&Call, which is a solid gay romance about working class men. It's not cosy - there's blackmail, job loss, cPTSD, and the relationship is rocky for a long time.
#VirginiaBloomsberries February discussion thread.
📚 What effect did the narrative style have on you as a reader?
📚 Do you consider the stylistic choices VW made, helped raise questions about truth, subjective experiences, authenticity, &reliable narrative?
📚 What did you consider the central theme to be?
All are welcome to join us. Let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
Next up - https://litsy.com/p/SWU3ekxLejl2
pickFirst part of the Second Sex.
To-be-read for sure, but before beginning the second tome, I'll let my brain recover, haha.
Very interesting, I just love how she writes, how she builds her arguments. And the amount of research is just mind blowing.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday Thanks for the tag @dabbe
1.A Room Of Ones Own/ To The Lighthouse are both faves love Woolf
2.Slaughterhouse Five
3.The Sun Also Rises
4.White Noise
pickIn short, yes this is absolutely worth the 18 hrs on audio. I greatly enjoyed listening to this while working and coloring. Made me deeply reflective about how books have changed the world and I‘m super zen now.
Got to the end of a fascinating chapter of this book and wanted to talk to my sister about it… Phone call devolved into discussing the origins of the story from the movie The Mask of Zorro(We did find the original novel: The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley - published in 1919)…. I wish I could say this was abnormal for us.
