I took this book on a recent bus trip under the mistaken impression it was a novel. While I was initially disappointed to have no fiction in my travel book selection (the other being a non-fiction maths book), I stuck with it and found it enjoyable and enlightening. I've read two novels by Haynes (both... Continue Reading →
I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman. Pub 1995. Translation by Ros Schwartz, Pub 1997/2019.
Despite this book being on display at the local bookshop and its (unknown to me) TikTok fame, I had never heard of this book, so I consider it to be non-mainstream. Spoiler alert (trying to not give much away): when we meet the unnamed narrator (called by the others, “the child”), she is an adolescent... Continue Reading →
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. Pub 1899
I first heard of this book on the podcast Backlisted, and then again in a book about banned books. The podcast praise made me interested in reading it, but I was hesitant due to comparisons with Virginia Woolf. Then the book was displayed at a bookshop during a recent shopping trip, so I took it... Continue Reading →
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