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Jill Tweedie was a feminist writer and broadcaster who is best remembered for her Guardian column on feminist issues, which ran from from 1969 to 1988. One particular series of columns was Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist, which was later collected into a book of the same name, and later again, More from Martha. I [...]
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March 10, 2010 in feminism, fiction, politics, review, women's history Tagged feminism, jill tweedie, journalism, letters from a fainthearted feminist, reading challege, women unbound
Hello, good evening, and welcome to the third meeting of the Not the TV Book Group! Following the impeccable example of Lynne and Simon before me, I have been baking, tidying, and brewing more tea than you can possibly imagine in preparation for my virgin voyage into the world of the internet book group.
We’ve already [...]
March 7, 2010 in fiction, not the tv book group, review
Tagged fiction, not the tv book group, susan sellers, vanessa and virginia, vanessa bell, virginia woolf
Tagged fiction, not the tv book group, susan sellers, vanessa and virginia, vanessa bell, virginia woolf
Can there be any bigger ‘discomfort zone’ than growing up?
I picked this book up on a whim a few days ago. I hadn’t managed to get into the book I was reading at the time and was looking for something completely different. That day I had also rearranged a couple of bookshelves in a fit [...]
March 3, 2010 in auto/biography, review
Tagged american, autobiography, jonathan franzen, memoir, non-fiction, the discomfort zone
Tagged american, autobiography, jonathan franzen, memoir, non-fiction, the discomfort zone
Like Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report, I would never have chosen this book were it not for the Not the TV Book Group. Unlike the Claudel, though, I wasn’t bowled over by The Girl with the Glass Feet by Ali Shaw.
That’s not to say that I thought it was a bad book. On the contrary, Shaw’s [...]
March 1, 2010 in fiction, not the tv book group, review
Tagged ali shaw, fiction, magical realism, not the tv book group, the girl with the glass feet
Tagged ali shaw, fiction, magical realism, not the tv book group, the girl with the glass feet
See? This is why I’m delighted to be part of a book group. If Dovegrey Reader hadn’t suggested Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report for the Not the TV Book Group, then it would have passed me by completely. I had barely heard of it, let alone actually considered reading it, and if I’m perfectly frank I [...]
February 16, 2010 in fiction, not the tv book group, review
Tagged books, brodeck's report, fiction, french, not the tv book group, philippe claudel, war
Tagged books, brodeck's report, fiction, french, not the tv book group, philippe claudel, war
Another book, another set of odd links that pop up at you when you least expect it. Yesterday I was talking about my discomfort at the repeated use of the word ‘mongol’ to describe a child with Down’s Syndrome in The Fifth Child, but in Push by Sapphire the use of ‘mongo’ to describe a [...]
February 5, 2010 in fiction, films, review
Tagged american fiction, gabourey sidibe, precious, push, sapphire
Tagged american fiction, gabourey sidibe, precious, push, sapphire
Doris Lessing is another one of those authors who I have been meaning to read a lot more by but haven’t quite got around to it. However, a couple of weeks ago I was recommended The Fifth Child by Academic Friend, who generally has impeccable taste. One second-hand copy later, I can confirm that Academic [...]
February 4, 2010 in fiction, review
Tagged doris lessing, fiction, gothic, horror, motherhood, the fifth child
Tagged doris lessing, fiction, gothic, horror, motherhood, the fifth child
I mentioned the other day that it was a coincidence that just when I’d started reading Muriel Spark’s 1961 classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, I saw an article about inspirational teachers. Well, doesn’t that just go to show that I had no idea what the novel was really about, and no, I’ve never [...]
January 25, 2010 in education, fiction, review
Tagged fiction, muriel spark, scottish fiction, the prime of miss jean brodie
Tagged fiction, muriel spark, scottish fiction, the prime of miss jean brodie
Sometimes it is the simplest things that have the biggest impact. Sometimes, and I say this without meaning to sound cloyingly sentimental about the innocence of children, it is a child’s eye view of the adult world that brings home how complicated life can get without you meaning it to.
Gwenni Morgan, the heroine of The Earth [...]
Not the TV Book Group
Sun 07 Feb: Brodeck's Report - Philippe Claudel
Sun 21 Feb: The Girl with the Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
Sun 07 Mar: Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers
Sun 21 Mar: The Illusionist - Jennifer Johnston
Sun 11 Apr: Skin Lane - Neil Bartlett
Sun 25 Apr: The Boys in the Trees - Mary Swan
Sun 09 May: A Short Gentleman - Jon Canter
Sun 23 May: Fledgling - Octavia E. ButlerReading Challenge
The Equality Illusion - Kat Banyard
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist - Jill Tweedie
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Singled Out - Virginia Nicholson
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education - Jane Robinson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker-
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