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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#20Covers

This is not the cover I have and I NEED this one how gorgeous is this!

A short story with a big impact

#12booksof2024 : April

Just enjoying happy hour with this short story discovery I made on our bookshelves. What an absolute gem! My husband says he read it for his History of the Modern Family in Western Civilization class in 4th year. I can see why so many people mentioned it with todays prompt ( the sun is shining now after a day of grey and snow and tomorrow the weather network says a storm is coming so the afternoon commute will be a mess 👎🏻👎🏻)

This short story gave me the feeling I remember having when reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. The narrator took me along with her on her descent into madness.

#manicmonday #letterY @cbee @Librariana

📚 Yellow Wallpaper; You Made A Cool of Death With Your Beauty
✍️ Lidia Yuknavitch
🍿 Young Frankenstein; Y Tu Mama Tambien
🎤 Yoko Ono (? Only person I can think of!)
🎶 You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi

#AlphabetGame

Another single book/story I‘ve read. #letterY
The paranoia was unnerving.

My May wrap up. The first (in the list) Heartstoppers I technically read last month and it was the only thing I read last month. I think I made up for it. Time will tell about June which is my birthday month!

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Interesting short read

Eerie and tragic. A short and compelling read. By the end of it, I was sufficiently creeped out.

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
Square 21 ✔️

I heard this story for the first time over the weekend and just sat down to read it today (I'm better with reading than listening). So strange and absolutely brilliant

It took me about 20 minutes to read this short story and another 20 minutes to think about what I had just read. I'm still kind of confused about the ending. Definitely creepy and leaves you with that "WTF did I just read" feeling.

#Readathon #Deweys24hrReadathon #Deweys

#QuotsyOct20 @TK-421
#Creep

I finally got around to reading this short story, and phew. Charlotte Perkins Gilman has written such a gripping account of what was often written off as a simple nervous depression or a nervous anxiety. She brilliantly brings forth the archaic mindset and reactions to mental illness & the women suffering from them. The descriptions of the bizarre and sickly yellow wallpaper and the woman she assumes is creeping about on all fours behind it. Wow.

#ManicMonday

📖 The Yellow Wallpaper (tagged)

🖊 Hanya Yanagihara

🎥 Young Frankenstein 🤣

🎤 Yeah Yeah Yeahs

🎶 Yellow Ledbetter (Pearl Jam), You Might Think (The Cars), You & I (One Direction)

Making a lesson plan out of this great story 💕 #futureteacher #englishmajor

A+ content from @SparkNotes on Instagram. Since MI just got the shelter-in-place order, I'll take every suggestion I can get. #socialdistancing

A fantastic (also 😱) piece of feminist literature. Told in mere 28 pages – incredibly immersive – Gilman has piqued my interest in reading more of her work(s).

A very quick listen (only 35 minutes on audible)/quick read. However, this is POWERFUL. A key piece of feminist literature, way ahead (and extremely dating) for the time. Giving voice to women in a time when they were silenced, and still just as poignant today. I could go on about it for hours. Worth a very deep analysis. I must say, listening to it made it even more powerful, as the silenced female narrator is given a voice.

I am on my short story stint and this didn't disappoint.
This story receives a lot of feminist interest with many interpretations of the wallpaper as a metaphor.
I saw it more as the story of an unreliable narrator: was she being gas-lighted, was she really mad or was she just being driven insane by the restrictive Victorian patriarchy.

A perfect little creepy read for October. I loved the writing style and how we're getting deeper and depper into madness. Great!

#relatable @SerialReader

“You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one‘s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?”

Finally finished The Yellow Wallpaper! Terrified me so much 😂

I always mention The Yellow Wallpaper in my talks about WOMAN 99 since my narrator Charlotte is named in honor of the author. At a recent luncheon event at a women's club in Richmond, guess what color wallpaper they had in the ladies' room?

Exciting day! My essay on Charlotte Perkins Gilman & her very real experience with institutionalization for mental illness is up on LitHub! https://lithub.com/the-lesser-known-life-behindthe-yellow-wallpaper/

I read this in a lot class in high school. It had the most profound effect on me. I was just in awe of a story constructed like this. Short but maddening!
I reread it today. Just as amazing.

Fast novella. So glad I read it for it's historical significance. The forward by Maggie O'Farrell was as compelling as the novella. I listened to this on Scribd...I do not recommend the recording. The voice actor was off putting. Next time I will read the physical book.

Next up in #boutabook readathon. Time for a classic that I have been meaning to get to.

Did you know that the New York Public Library posts whole novels in their #instagram stories?! They‘re beautifully illustrated too, like this mesmerizing rendition of the classic american short story about post natal/female/mental health struggles in a misogynist society. Well done, NYPL; and @Megara for pointing this out!

My shortest book made my top 5 and my longest book made my bottom 5. For the sake of my time, part of me wishes it had been the other way around. 😂
If you‘re looking for a good short read though, I would highly recommend The Yellow Wallpaper. It would work for the #booked2019 #publicdomain prompt too for those of you participating in that next year. 😄👍🏽

#2018stats

Scared the shit out of me. Gonna have to read more of Gilman's work, I suppose. This is a classic, I can't believe I hadn't read it before!

If you don‘t follow NYPL (New York Public Library) on Instagram you are seriously missing out! The Yellow Wallpaper is the second piece of literature that they have adapted for the Instagram stories feature (the first was Alice in Wonderland, which can still be viewed in the profile).

The graphics that go along with the text are really well designed.

Finished my first #serialreader book The Yellow Wallpaper. The story was just the right amount of creepy and feminist. This app is awesome overall. I‘m starting some Shakespeare and hoping with these small sections given to me I can find it doable. I would recommend The Yellow Wallpaper and the app to anyone, they are both that good. #TheYellowWallpaper #Macbeth #SerialReader #SerialReaderApp

Be sure to let us know your thoughts on the Yellow Wallpaper. You can read our full review in the link below. New #litereads selection available tomorrow. https://thefeministbibliothecary.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/lite-reads-review-the-...

The Yellow Wallpaper has one of the great classic short story endings in literary history. When you first read it, did the ending shock you or did you see it coming from a mile away? #litereads

The Yellow Wallpaper was written in the 1890s. Mental health treatment has changed a great deal since then, but not in every way. Does anything in the story remind you of today's care? #litereads

The Yellow Wallpaper was published in the 1890s, and remains a staple in feminist literature today. Why do you think the story has such staying power, especially in a movement that is constantly evolving? #litereads

Our fourth week of #litereads will be Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. If you've read it before, feel free to participate in the conversation. If it's new to you, I hope you enjoy it. You can find links to read it for free on the blog.

https://thefeministbibliothecary.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/lite-reads-selection-t...

I really liked this. Didn‘t know what to expect but it was very thought provoking

Such a disturbing short story... chronicling a woman‘s descent into madness while being forced to convalesce for her ‘nervousness‘ by her all-knowing physician husband. So creepy and dark, but gorgeous prose. Her use of the word ‘creep‘ towards the end gives me the heebie-jeebies.

‘It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please!‘ 😱

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#1001books

1. Movie & dinner, market, Etsy Fair, Used Book Sale
2. donuts
3. Yes, The forgetting tree, The Yellow wallpaper, and The ocean at the end of the Lane! #audiobook #audiowalk
4. Reassuring and supportive colleagues!
5. @llwheeler

#friYayIntro @jesshowbooks

Started & finished on my #audiowalk fulfilling a classic by a female on the #ReadingWomenChallenge list!
This was great! Had my eyes widening in shock/horror/creep factor/etc! See here for a fun discussion of it - https://www.tor.com/2016/04/20/gaslight-era-gaslighting-charlotte-perkins-gilman...

Finished another quick read on #serialreader. This was also thought provoking. About a woman's battle with mental illness and the blatant disregard by others to help her. Its considered an important feminist early work. Its was very good.

#classics