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Came across Duck River Books in Columbia, TN. Found one book I had been looking for (Meditations) and one that was a total surprise: this CP Gilman collection.

*alternate photos from my Meditations post

#WickedWhispers Day 15: #Witch - found in a London bookshop last year.

Feminism can be experienced as giving life, or as taking one‘s own life back, a life that you might have experienced as what you have given to others, or even what has been taken by other people‘s expectations.

#SchoolSpirit

This book of essays has been on my Kindle TBR for a while. It seemed a good pick for today‘s #Play prompt.

#SchoolSpirit #Graduation @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Decided it was time to read this novel set in 90s Ireland about the Troubles that‘s been sitting on my #tbr shelf. People may know that O‘Brien died recently at 93. I traversed Ireland from Dublin to Northern Ireland & back again in 1992 with my then boyfriend who was from Derry. I recall the people, places, stories, army presence & on one occasion having our car strip-searched. This quiet, menacing, masterfully written novel made me work. 🙏❤️

“The Yellow Wallpaper,” the first story in this collection, is a reread for me, but it always affects me. I think it‘s the repetition of the MC‘s fixation that sort of dizzies me as I‘m reading it, a powerful device. In a separate piece, Gilman writes about her own experience with this type of rest treatment and the detrimental effects it had on her. It‘s a perfect example of a story engaging the reader with an idea without preaching.

#allshewrote #queer #feminist

My BIL told me the news of O‘Brien‘s passing. So when we visited a bookshop I saw this and had to purchase. I remember my mother‘s copy of the banned Country Girls, which I hope reread soon.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/28/irish-author-edna-obrien-d...