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#bookbuy This is a good bet. I loved her other fiction .

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My #doublespin for February. A tale about a passionate friendship between two girls in post WW I France. Not unlike Book of Goose, also a tale about a passionate friendship between two girls in part WW II France. 🤔 Makes me wonder if Li was inspired by de Beauvoir.
Wallace is suspicious. 😼

Very well written. The love between friends is beautifully described. The deep devotion, at the utter expense of your own health and contentment, for God and more deeply, your family, is so foreign and tragic. Strange to think that someone I equate with deep thinking, especially about women, would have known such anguish

A fascinating novella about the intense, often one-sided love between female friends, but also about the tragic constraints placed on women depending on their class and religion. I definitely identify with the intellectual and atheistic Sylvie, who deeply loves her friend Andrée. Volume also includes an excellent introduction by Margret Atwood.

My first from de Beauvoir and a good intro to her broader concerns before diving into her philosophy.

Wrapped up #lmpbc round 15 with this book. The writing style is different, but the story is so good!

Our #lmpbc crop was exceptional! Included in the batch: two mind expanders. One I wouldn‘t have read. Period. Another I probably wouldn‘t have—too cerebral. Thanks for the excellent picks, @Pogue @TheBookHippie @Hazel2019

Inseparable is also my first book finished during #deweysreadathon. 🙌 #deweyoct

Starting the readathon by finishing this great one.
#dewey #readathon #deweysreadathon

This came the other day and I‘m plowing through it. A fascinating story of two smart friends growing up in France during the early part of the 20th-century.

Yikes! The societal and religious strictures.

Thanks @Pogue for the yummy tea and lovely bookmark! 😊

@TheBookHippie @Hazel2019 @suvata #lmpbc

I could not put this down. @TheBookHippie @Hazel2019 @Maria514626 this was the first de Beauvoir I have ever read. I am going to read the little book next. Thank you so much!

#alphabetgame #letteri @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
A legend. This is a recently released until now unpublished novella. In general I am not a fan of reading people's work if they shoved it in a drawer away from the public, but I was too drawn to this to say no!
A great book for those who love books about friendship evolution.

...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
Simone de Beauvoir

#LMPBC #GROUPI my pick

Most fitting to read a feminist works right now I‘m thinking. I realize it‘s a short book but I imagine with summer it‘ll be a nice thing.

When people find unpublished works by a famous person I always wonder how that person would feel about it, was this the final draft they were wanting to send into the world?
This is the story of Sylvie and Andree friend through their childhood into adulthood. Some things make little sense - Andree's mother goes from almost negligence in ignoring Andree to not letting her out of her site for seemingly no reason beyond her age maybe? 👇

3 day rainy weekend. I have started a bunch of different things lately so this weekend I want to focus on wrapping them up.
Tim Tams and wine to help push through.

I wish I would‘ve passed on this one. It‘s newly published, posthumously, and translated from French to English. I think the combination of these two elements were working against it from the get-go for my reading taste. Though I see what the author was doing, I was bored to tears. It reminded me a bit of My Brilliant Friend but with less going for it.

This did not resonate with me at all.

A story about the friendship between two young women (one of whom dies young) came across detached and cold to me.

I wonder if something was lost in the translation from French to English...

Noodle is super cute today, though 😺

This novel sets you into the claustrophobic life of a young woman in the late 1920's in France. A story of de Beauvoir's intense friendship with Zaza, Andree in the book. The rigid beliefs of Catholicism, the social mores of the time, and the control that parents and men had over women serve to literally squeeze the life out of a young passionate woman. This is a short novel that packs a punch. Atwood writes a great intro as well.

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