#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD WHEW!!!!
Thank you for enduring with me!!! On to APRIL!!!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD WHEW!!!!
Thank you for enduring with me!!! On to APRIL!!!
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We did it. Brava to those who made it to today. I have listened to several interviews now and read several interviews. Doris -the author -never wanted this to be a feminist book. She was actually rather angry about it. What she was doing was observing what happened when all your ideologies and ideals are not what you thought they were, and she was observing the people around her and their lives afterwards. I think it‘s her life.
Free Women #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Molly married
Anna an affair
Janet to boarding school
Marion & Timmy to Sicily then take over Molly‘s house SO Molly takes on Richard‘s other sons..?!
Richard & sexatary to Canada, he‘s divorcing Marion ..
Nelson story? Why?
Anna‘s notebooks and guilt over Tommy‘s attempt
Anna and the American OY
THEN
Anna NEW FLAT? A JOB
“There‘s nothing like knowing the exact dimensions of the bed you fit into”
No feminism 🤯
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The Golden Notebook
The homophobia - just wow
ANNA-Depressed? Gone mad as they use to say? Stuck? Lost?
Looking backwards- something about Mashopi doesn‘t leave. ..
“Because American values stink” LOL
Golden Notebook- Saul leaves with it after ANNA writes the first sentence he finishes it writes a novel…it sells well
WTF?
Thank god that‘s over
Meh. Final discussion on Sunday. 🤐
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Thank God that's over! It pains me to pan a book but I did not enjoy this one little bit.
Anna is going round the bend with writer's block and keeps multiple concurrent notebooks whilst sleeping with a succession of increasingly dreadful men and agonising over whether to leave the communist party or not. Maybe it's an insightful document of its time but I was in WTF?! mode for most of it.
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Phew, done! I‘m guessing no one will find it spoilery if I say I found the ending unsatisfying 😂. I have no idea how to rate this — there were enough nuggets along the way to keep me reading, but the further I got the more infuriating I found it. There were so many places I wanted the author to take this that she stubbornly refused to go & the questions I found most interesting stay unanswered. 😅😵💫🤬😬🤷🏻♀️ See you Sunday! #sundaybuddyread
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Articles, interviews etc
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2007/lessing/25432-interview-transc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDZbCw2To9s
can get lost in here but https://thegoldennotebook.org/blog/
https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/download/2354/2084
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs_hZm6LD44
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If this is in your book read it. Super helpful.
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See you SUNDAY 🤐🤫🙃
DONE! If you are looking for me, I will be home patting myself on the back for reading this insufferable beast in its entirety.
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So. Who is still here with me 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
I think I‘m speechless.
We get to finish now.
I promise I love you all. 🤣♥️🙃
This is um … some book.
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BLUE NOTEBOOK
Janet to boarding school
“THE GAME”
New tenant lover craziness Saul Green
Anna is a mess
Mother Sugar is ridiculous
SHE HAS PURCHASED A GOLDEN NOTEBOOK
The notebook is defaced by a child, I mean Saul
😵💫
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YELLOW NOTEBOOK
The short stories 19 of them pure utter sadness for women. Did this help women in 1962? Did it help them feel seen? Say this is not for me ? Say this isn‘t for me anymore? WHAT?!?
So so sad. And ridiculous 😫 these were the only choices?!
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RED NOTEBOOK
Clippings here as well
1956&57 Violence
Freedom all the talk and references
Harry‘s story … what for????
She finally quit the party?!
🎶🎵So. Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothin', don't mean nothin' hon' if it ain't free, no-no🎶🎵🎶
I got nothing here folks…
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Black Notebook
Clippings of death et all…
1955,6,7
Moshopi Hotel -STILLLLL we are back here
TV dream
Losing accuracy in memory 😵💫
A mess. A great big mess.
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Anna- still the roommate drama then the roommates eventually are gone still so homophobic
Marion- Left Richard and her children
Richard- a bad tempered man but anywhere not a Democracy he‘d be shot?!
Molly- “I thought the next generation would marry at 18-forbid divorce-go for strict moral codes-because choice is just too terrifying.” WTF
Control does not equate to safety
Also 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD 👀
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IF you‘re still with me, I‘ll see ya SUNDAY 😳
https://interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/timeline/womenunite/en/index.htmlhick...
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Um. If you‘re still with me congratulations ..
I don‘t have words. I hate everyone then I read a good quote then I hate everyone.
☘️💚☘️Happy St Pattys day I just spotted a few snowflakes and I‘m off to start prep for my huge dinner of Cottage pie, leek soup, yeast rolls, lime jello of course and mint ice cream and cookies.
I thank you for Sundays and sticking with me!! ♥️
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD BLUE NOTEBOOK
Neurotic
What‘s you think of Mother Sugar the therapist ?
Does Anna need to write?
What is up with Anna‘s repulsion of lesbians ?!
Russia was not good to Jews history
ALLL THE MEN 😵💫😵💫
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD YELLOW NOTEBOOK
The novel
The third is now Ella
Ella -Dr West finding his next play thing ! OY
Julie/Ella friends because they hate men
The “ MY WIFE IS NOT AN EXHILARATING CONVERSATIONALIST”
“A woman with three small children stuck in the suburbs with a TV has nothing exhilarating to talk about..”
Also LESBIANS ARE NOT LESBIANS BECAUSE THEY HATE MEN .. OMG
Ella and her father
People, I think ELLA NEEDS HELP
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD RED NOTEBOOK
Molly “The point is oughtnt they to be more intelligent than we were Anna?”
Pg 427-428 quote ⬇️
"My dear Comrades. I have been listening to you, amazed at the wells of faith in human beings! What you are saying amounts to this: that you know the leadership of the British C.P. consists of men and women totally corrupted by years of work in the Stalinist atmosphere.⬇️
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD BLACK NOTEBOOK
Pigeon Killing
Grasshoppers
Butterflies
The Group AGAIN in Africa
American writer, journalist
Publishing reviews
Church experience agnostic atheist
Blood on the banana leaves
Interesting how the reviews changed year to year?
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Anna is losing it because she lost a man- Michael!?
Also this is her excuse for being mean, etc?!
Ummmm
Wow
Is this book showing us how NOT to be? I‘m lost…
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Marion
“ I thought my God for that creature I‘ve ruined my life…he‘s been in love with a type, he never loved me, NONE of it had anything to do with me…”
Pg 381 revelation of hers.
That was a gem.
So what is it with her and Tommy ?!?!
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AnnA HOMOPHOBIC … just WOW that was hard to read. She is so uniformed as well, just mind blowing. All kinds of wrong 😵💫😵💫😵💫YIKES.
She has no open mind either. Also definitely not a feminist. Whew.
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So TOMMY - BLIND NOT DEAD 😳
Apparently he‘s happy now
Manipulative ? Abusive?
I‘m not a fan
📷 https://988lifeline.org/
Also. The light always returns. I promise. One of the bravest things I ever did was stay here. Please reach out if you need help.
Are we done yet???? 🤣
@TheBookHippie #SundayBuddyRead
I cannot even with this book. It's never going to end....
See you SUNDAY #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD PEEPS
Free Women Three discussion 😵💫😝🤣👀🤐🤫
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I‘m still intrigued. I still loathe everyone.
Happy Sunday. Time change is 😫😵💫😝
Some links while reading
https://www.britannica.com/place/Quemoy-Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://www.history.com/news/joseph-stalin-religion-atheism-ussr
https://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/international/volume23n1/documents/159-1...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mof0dEKT_9Q
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Quote from pg 343 in my book seems to sum up this portion of reading.
“The point as it seems to me that my mind is a mass of totally contradictory attitudes about everything”
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1954
“The housewives disease”
The relationship with Michael & it ENDS
Also, all these men. Not a good one in the bunch.
Anna‘s social party work
Anna‘s refusal to write book two or inability
For a feminist novel this sure is I need a man centered…
Anna resting on her laurels- too much time to think
Anna obsessing over her period et all
Anna worried about motherhood
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The Shadow of the Third
Ella to Paris
The “I definitely do not want to be married” quote the hypocrite?
Ella & Cy
Interesting her ideas of what is sex and intimacy ..
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1954 Always talk of leaving the party.
Happiness and Michael..
1952 The peeps are delusional. Whew.
Stalin was horrific.
All the talk and dreaming without action of any kind…
😵💫
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Anna
Edwina/Reginald people that want to make the book a movie or a play but not really, all the changes.
Anna‘s obsession with how she looks and dresses to present herself.
Just OY
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Free Women
I was reminded while reading this first bit of the saying “A Republican refuses aid to anyone in case one person abuses it, A Democrat gives knowing people may abuse it but with the hope of helping just one.”
(Although nowadays cruelty power control.)
There was also questioning of love, what‘s the goal, why are we alive… The summation of the real things happen in the ordinary.
Then the suicide of Tommy.
Whew.
Living my best life, reading in a king sized hotel bed with take out coffee on a Sunday morning ( I could handle a better book 🤣)
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD peeps
I do NOT do well with the time change 😵💫😩😅
I‘ll see ya when I wake and get coffee in 😝
Perfect image/ feel of “ mood reading”—The exhilaration I feel when wandering through library bookshelves & come upon a book that calls to me—bookstores now seem to have less of a selection.Libraries have always been part of my life,deserving of my support & respect.As children, my mom would take us every Saturday to get the next week‘s books. My husband & I always took my son for story time & book selections. #sundaybuddyread
This is why when I read history, I enjoy reading historical novels of the same time period, or those that allude to that time period.
I just started this novel today. Quite behind…I read it decades ago- wonder if I remember anything?! #sundaybuddyread
Celebrating International Women‘s Day by playing catch up on this month‘s #SundayBuddyRead .
There‘s a lot of info, but Lessing has a way of presenting the story as if the reader is there. I won‘t have section 2 complete by Sunday‘s discussion, but at least I‘m making progress!
Xander is my reading buddy tonight. #Xander #CatsOfLitsy
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I know enough to understand news and some history. . Anyone who wants can add links or easy understanding of British Political Parties…
https://www.local.gov.uk/about/our-meetings-and-leadership/political-composition...
https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/partysystem/
https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/United-Kingdom-POLITICAL-PARTIES.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnJxZXzxX4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
https://dailystoic.com/what-is-stoicism-a-definition-3-stoic-exercises-to-get-yo...
https://plato.stanford.edu/ENTRIES/stoicism/
Use reader view https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/books/stoicism-books.html