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Woman Destroyed
Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir
Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.
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fv.reads
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Bailedbailed

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.

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Pickpick

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

IuliaC I enjoyed this one very much too 😊 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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vlwelser
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A little light reading for the morning commute. I like a book that easily fits in my purse. 🚂📖

batsy Love the cover! 2y
IuliaC A great one! 2y
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ink.drinker
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“Intelligence withers if it is not fed.”

BarbaraBB Such a good book!! 2y
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IuliaC
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Pickpick

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...

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Bertha_Mason
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir

"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. ?

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Bertha_Mason
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir

"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."

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Bertha_Mason
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir

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

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Bertha_Mason
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir

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.

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Bertha_Mason
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir

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

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Bertha_Mason
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Emilymdxn
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir
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#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

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nanuska_153
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#7days7books Day 7

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

BarbaraBB This book had a huge impact on me too! 4y
nanuska_153 @BarbaraBB I fell in love with this book the first time I read it, the insight into the lifes and feelings of these women is just amazing 4y
BarbaraBB I felt like I could underline more than half of the content! 4y
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PaperbackPirate
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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

BooknerdsLife Very interesting synopsis! And what a unique cover! Thank you for this post 💖 Stacked the book 🙌🏼📚 5y
Erofan 😍 5y
OriginalCyn620 ❤️❤️❤️🇫🇷 5y
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BarbaraBB It is soooo good! 5y
PaperbackPirate Happy to help @BooknerdsLife ! 😊 5y
PaperbackPirate Glad to know you liked it @BarbaraBB ! 🤝 5y
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kgriffith
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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

Zelma I read Blue Asylum and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves last year. Really liked both. Blue Asylum in particular had great writing but didn‘t totally work for me at the end. 5y
kgriffith @Well-ReadNeck Excellent, thanks for weighing in! 5y
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BarbaraBB
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“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 💜

Kalalalatja I have wanted to read her books for sooo long! 6y
BarbaraBB @Kalalalatja if you do, let it be this one 💕 6y
batsy That's a fabulous quote. I stacked it when you mentioned it awhile back; I need to get it! 6y
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saresmoore I ALMOST bought this the other day! I may have to go back for it... 6y
BarbaraBB @batsy @saresmoore I think you both need to get it 💕 6y
Cinfhen Perfect 👌🏽 what a great choice 💋 6y
vivastory I have been meaning to read this for awhile now. Bonus points for the Mendelsund cover! 6y
Trashcanman 💗🤗 6y
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mrozzz
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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 😍

Jess7 Love this picture! 6y
Pamwurtzler Great picture- where is that? 6y
BarbaraBB Gorgeous picture. The book is one of my all time favorites. It‘s brilliant! 6y
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mrozzz @Jess7 thank you 😊💜 6y
mrozzz @Pamwurtzler Thanks! This is Albertine in NYC. So adorable. 6y
mrozzz @BarbaraBB Thank you! 😃 That‘s so good to hear. 6y
MicheleinPhilly WOW! 😍 6y
emilyhaldi Oooohhhh I got lost in this bookstore once. So gorgeous ❤️ 6y
mrozzz I know! I didn‘t have long but it was worth the detour 😊 @MicheleinPhilly 6y
mrozzz ☺️💕 Any others you would recommend?? @emilyhaldi I wanted to go to Corner Bookstore but it was too far out of the way yesterday 6y
emilyhaldi Not really... I found this place by accident. But otherwise I spent most of my time at the Strand and usually popped into Alabaster around the corner as well! 6y
mrozzz Well I‘m headed to the Strand shortly 😉 but I‘ll have to keep Alabaster in mind next time I‘m in that part of town @emilyhaldi 6y
emilyhaldi You should def pop in Alabaster! It‘s so charming and has a great selection of used books. And it‘s right around the corner 😉 6y
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strandbookstore
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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

saresmoore Sounds good to me! 6y
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SusanInTiburon
Sin noticias de Gurb | Eduardo Mendoza
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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.

mcipher What a cool idea!! 6y
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PagesOfKate
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"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

Christine11 I love the cover - and it sounds fascinating! 😊 6y
BarbaraBB I loved this book!! Great choice 😍 6y
batsy This book has been on my radar lately, I must read it! 6y
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Aquedita
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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

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GoneFishing
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir

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[...].

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BookNess
The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir
Pickpick

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

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