Three Women | 
Coming in January!! Be sure to pick this one up for our January discussion!! Add it to your #Botm box!! Can‘t wait to read and discuss this one!!
#BotmBuddyRead
so-soI felt uneasy about this book and really only connected with one of the three women‘s stories. Nonetheless I did give me a lot to think about.
#BookclubReads
I just finished posting all the book choices (so far) for my bookclub next year.... I‘m really excited to discuss all of these with them... we are a feisty, opinionated group (no wallflowers!😂) so these should be fun! 📚💕🍷
What are you reading with your club? Tag me and use the hashtag.... I‘d love to see... 😊💕
so-so3/5🌟So on the one hand I found this compulsively readable, hard to put down.Taddeo's writing is good. Very journalistic and thorough. Their stories are very intimate and at times graphic, all heartbreaking and overall very sad. The main takaway for me was women's wants and desires arent heard and or believed. Overall well written and readable but sad and I don't feel like I learned anything new about human desire, female or male. #bookstagram
pickExciting page-turner. Non fiction but gripping story. Made me sad and uncomfortable but also validated that other women feel like I feel sometimes. Did not make me like myself or other women or humanity all the time - but I guess we are all in it, searching for connection
This is our line up for 2020!! We are really excited about these books!! We hope you can join us!! 🎊📚🙌🏻
January-Three Women
February- The Chelsea Girls
March - The Golden Hour
April- The Whisper Network
May - The Sun Down Motel (not pictured)
June- A Thousand Splendid Suns (not pictured)
#BotmBuddyRead
Working two jobs can be tricky and today it got the better of me. I‘ve taken a mental health day and devoting it to reading in the glorious sunshine
pickThe number of times these women said they did something they didn‘t want or didn‘t do something wanted because they were so afraid of upsetting the men they were with was deeply disturbing because of how strongly it resonated.
pickThis non-fiction books sets out to explore female sexuality through three case studies. But they are all white and straight and cis, and all their stories are centered on underlying trauma. Valid and interesting viewpoints, but not at all what the book says on the tin. And why must all female desire be associated with trauma??
#wonderouswednesday / Friday!
Thanks for the tags @Blaire and @iread2much
1- Lisa Taddeo
2- How did you wrestle with conflict of interest - friends/book material? Children‘s rights / parents engaging in the process?
3- n+1 Where n is the number of books I currently own! 🤣🤣🤣
Playing hooky - reading in a coffeeshop while sipping earl grey lavender iced tea.
#bookntea #coffeeshopreads
This is our line up for 2020!! We are really excited about these books!! We hope you can join us!! 🎊📚🙌🏻
January-Three Women
February- The Chelsea Girls
March - The Golden Hour
April- The Whisper Network
May - The Sun Down Motel (not pictured)
#BotmBuddyRead
“Women shouldn‘t judge one another‘s lives, if we haven‘t been through one another‘s fires.”
I‘ll admit that I feel judged often and I don‘t know why...
#quote #nonfiction
11-3-19: My 89th finished book of 2019! This book was brutal! #threewomen #lisataddeo 👍🏼📖#️⃣8️⃣9️⃣
pickThis book, y‘all. Three days later and I‘m still thinking on it. It made me equal parts sad, enraged, and uncomfortable. A great look into desire and the ways in which women contort and betray themselves to get what they need from men.
“If” I cohosted a book club with @TheBookHippie these would “probably “ be our first 5 picks of 2020 🎉📚🎊
Not pictured The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James!
January-Three Women
February- The Chelsea Girls
March - The Golden Hour
April- The Whisper Network
May - The Sun Down Motel
#Myidealbookclub thanks for the tag @kspenmoll
#BotmBuddyRead
Not the most inspiring list..... not inspired Foyles!
https://www.foyles.co.uk/Books-of-the-Year-Shortlists?sc_src=email_6359992&sc_li...
‘Hi, Karin said. It was an unusual hello, warm and spiky.
Hi, said Sloane. She has a way of saying hello that is at once inquisitive, judgmental, and a little bit sensual.‘
Huh, what is a warm and spiky hi? How is a greeting 3 feelings rolled into one? This isn‘t the only passage like this. I‘m 40+ pages in and the descriptors either contradict themselves or make little sense.
My beautiful friend @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ....thank you so much for this amazing gift. I guess I DID win Three Women for book club after all! 🤣 And those other two are books I so want to read. The bookmark, pad, cute paper clips...love them. But I just bought a bath bomb for this weekend (hubby is away) and I am saving the candle and candy for my big Saturday night.
Thank you for your kindness and your friendship. Cont:
pickI could have continued reading the stories of the three women at the heart of Lisa Taddeo's work of investigative journalism for a thousand more pages. The alternating strength and vulnerability that Lina, Sloane, and Maggie each displays at various points in her story is so relatable, so infuriating, so devastating. (continued in comments)
pickI devoured this book--such that I didn't stop to type out passages that knocked something loose in my soul here and there. Highly recommend reading for any woman. It is eye-opening, deft, deep, and genuine.
so-soI saw this book everywhere! Everyone was reading it, so I decided hey why not. I didn't read the synopsis, so this was not the kind of book I usually read. It was very crude and vulgar. A lot of times it made me feel very uncomfortable. But I felt like the book was just that. Sex, profanity, and crass. I didnt feel an actual story of any kind. I would only rate 3/5 stars.
Hey guys! How would you prefer seeing my reviews? Would you like me to do a few at a time like I have been or would you like me to post after every book I read? Any feedback is greatly appreciated :)
(this book I am currently reading for a book club so I won't habe a review up right away, but stay tuned!)
Reusing the photo for my last post for #covercrush 🔥 #7days7covers #day7
(I enjoy the cover way more than I did the actual book....)
“There are two high schools in town, just as there are two Americas. There are men and there are women and one still rules the other in certain pockets of the country, in moments that are not televised. Even when women fight back, they must do it correctly. They must cry the right amount and look pretty but not hot.”
Couldn‘t finish this book because I was so disturbed by Maggie‘s story. Had to return it to the library and move on.
pickI can‘t even put in to words how this book made me feel. I felt so sorry for Maggie. Felt strong desire for Sloane. Lina I couldn‘t help but feel so much annoyance and frustration.
Each story was so powerful and moving in its own way. So much personality, such strong emotions.
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bailedI‘m in a terrible reading slump right now. I‘m still reading, but everything I read I dislike. With this book I can‘t tell how much of it is slump related and how much is book related. Maggie‘s story hit too close to home. And I decided to call it quits after Taddeo says that Sloane “gave herself an eating disorder.” One does not give oneself a mental illness. Maybe I‘m overreacting, but I found that statement so insensitive.
Rather an obvious choice, this one, but it certainly fits for #whenikissedtheteacher....
#septembersins
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really enjoyed three women because it explored their sexuality and their lives. This book showed women in their sexuality and all their flaws.She followed these women through their lives for a few years and wrote about them, their desires, their pain, happiness.I was fascinated throughout the book by how vulnerable and flawed the women were. TW-Rape,Talks of Suicide,Slut Shaming,Statutory Rape,Fat Shaming,anorexia link in bio
The best non-fiction I read this year. Felt heart broken for Maggie. Lina's story is so surreal. Highly recommended 👌👍😍♥️
It‘s the most wonderful time of the year!
Metric century on my 🚲 this morning, reading on the deck in my zero-g chair this evening. It‘s been a beautiful day for both activities!
pickTaddeo functions as both a reporter and a novelist in this riveting read. I couldn‘t put the book down & I found the writing gripping however when I got to the last page I didn‘t feel satisfied or educated. I‘m not sure this book serves any purpose but that‘s not to say Im sorry I read it. I don‘t believe this is an accurate account of WOMEN today although I‘m sad to know it certainly represents some. Pick for the prose & keeping me engaged.
Since I am now back on nights (and fully awake while my whole household sleeps at 4 a.m.), I‘m gonna try to knock out some of my #bookofthemonth books. Up next is Three Women.
There‘s just soooo much to,talk about with this book.... it raised so many questions as I was reading it.
https://electricliterature.com/what-does-three-women-tell-us-about-the-sexual-de...
As stated in my last post... reading has been a real challenge for me since my breakup. I've barely turned any pages in months... and that in and of itself is heartbreaking to me. I realized, though, that it's actually a good thing. Reading used to be my escape from my life... now that I'm free and truly happy, I don't need it the way I used to.
Tonight, I read for pleasure... not for escaping pain.
xx
Lots of mixed reviews about this book have me very curious ~ it‘s my next read 🤓
Thank you so much @catiewithac for my #hftss goodies! I‘m excited to read both of these books and how did you know cat office supplies were the way to my heart? 😹 And my own personalized cat bookmark! I love love love everything! 💕 And thank you @JoScho for hosting a fun, low key swap! #highfivetosummerswap
pickThis was a very interesting take on three specific sexual lives and how they got there. Well written non fiction that felt like a novel. Great read!
