The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
First read in August 2012, reread Oct 2014 as part of this year’s RIP reading1 . Near the village of Thisby on …
Gone Girl [based on the book] by Gillian Flynn dir. by David Fincher
On the day of her fifth wedding anniversary Amy Dunne disappears. Her husband Nick gets home, a neighbour has spotted their cat …
Infidel by Kameron Hurley
Bel Dame Apocrapha # 2 Six years after the events in God’s War and Nyx is still making a living by taking …
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ramsay wants to go to the lighthouse. His mother says that yes, of course they can go tomorrow, weather permitting. His father disagrees. The weather will not permit it, he asserts, they will not go to the lighthouse.
Much of this novel revolves around the one afternoon and evening before this proposed trip to the lighthouse. The Ramsay family, maternal and magnificent mother, needy professor father and all eight children are staying in their holiday home in the Isle of Skye. With them are a number of other guests, Lily Briscoe the painter. William Banks, Augustus Carmichael, and Charles Tansey.
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Read it online Imagine a world without men. A world where women are able to reproduce without men, where the only children …
In the eye of the beholder
Kameron Hurley, author of God’s War wasn’t overly impressed by The Cabin in the Woods, as maybe you can tell from this …
Josephine Butler
I work in a library headquarters, this means that we process the new stock [1] . Part of this processing means that …
Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid’s Tale has done both. via Margaret Atwood: Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale | Books | The Guardian. → 5 February 2012
Katie Taylor is undoubtedly Ireland’s greatest sports person ever. She is one of the greatest female boxers in the world.Her father, and coach, Peter Taylor has already expressed his dismay at the lack of coverage her achievements receive. The way she is treated by the State’s national broadcaster is a disgrace.Sort it the fuck out, RTÉ.
Cinderella ate my daughter by Peggy Orenstein
After a career writing about feminism and girls in culture Peggy Orenstein found herself the mother of a girl. And so brought face to face with the practicalities of what she had been theorising about, how to raise a girl to believe in herself and how to try
and avoid the madonna/whore dichotomy. And then her daughter entered her “Disney princess” phase.
Brutal women by Kameron Hurley
Author Kameron Hurley has been getting a bit of coverage in the sff-world lately on account of her debut novel God’s War …
A vindication of the rights of woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, …