A bunch of women get together and call themselves the “May Mothers” after meeting on an online chat group for first time expectant parents. One by one each of the women become mothers and work to deal with the specific challenges that motherhood can present. In this book we see women trying to balance their careers while still being a “good mom”, the trouble with breastfeeding for some, post partum depression (and perhaps even psychosis), achieving intimacy with a partner, and just being able to […]
My favourite book of 2018
I know it is a terrible cliche, but every chapter inevitably had me thinking “this sounds familiar, I feel like we read this every day, the more things change…” While I did not grow up watching the television series, I was a voracious reader as a child, and repeatedly read The Little House of the Prairie series. I am also very interested in biographies of writers I enjoy, particularly when my perception of them isn’t particularly well matched by the reality (see also L. M. […]
A quick prayer in gratitude of pleasure.
This one hit my radar when it was put up for vote in my book club. It didn’t make the cut, but when I saw it at the library I snagged it and I’m glad that I did. This is one of the Reese Witherspoon books and the third that I have unwittingly read this year. I knew that she was behind bringing some women centered books to screen, but honestly had no idea that she had a book club going. I am surprised that […]
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey creepy
Henry meets his wife, Clare, for the first time when he is 28 and Clare is 20. Clare meets Henry when she is 6 and he is 36. Henry is a time traveler. He tells her and she believes him. He keeps coming back over the years and Clare grows older and falls in love with him. She finally finds him in his own present, a present where he doesn’t know her yet. Boy meets girl. Boy really likes to fuck girl. Boy proposes to […]
Two are one, life and death, lying like lovers in kemmer
I’m disappointed that it’s taken me nearly half a century to discover Ursula K. Le Guin. Perhaps “discover” isn’t the right word; I knew of her existence, but until she passed away earlier this year I hadn’t been motivated to read anything by her. I scored in my purchase of Penguin’s “great masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy” edition in that it contains not only a series introduction by Neil Gaiman, in which he describes Le Guin as having “a poet’s touch and an anthropologist’s […]
Spooky and beautiful and unprotected from the raw bloodiness of the world
Yolandi and Elfrieda are sisters raised in an isolated, stifling, patriarchal community of Russian Mennonite immigrants in rural Canada. Their parents buy Elf a forbidden piano to give her an outlet, and she pours everything into her music, leaving home at 17 to study in Oslo, eventually becoming a world-renowned concert pianist. But her life is weighed down by the crippling pain of depression, and she ends up in the hospital after yet another suicide attempt. In All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, everyone […]
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