This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock is not a self help book, even if its name might lead you to believe […]
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! From November 10, 2022 through February 9, 2023, the almost 250 members of the HarperCollins union were on strike. Union members, comprised of
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! In honor of National Poetry Month, FBC’s book of the month is Rose Quartz. If it leaves you inspired to keep reading, I’ve
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Marisa Crane’s I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is a stunning book. It is staggering how many things it manages to be at once. It’s poetic and experimental, dystopian and tender, kinky and queer. It is about grief and loss but also about love and hope, community in the face of adversity and, perhaps above
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Watching film and television adaptations of your favorite books can be risky. There is always the fear that the director’s vision of a character or a place won’t match the one you’ve had in your mind. That the finished product will look like something you don’t recognize or like. That it will somehow change the
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! As one of most decorated American distance runners of all time, Lauren Fleshman has toed many starting lines. Her book, Good for a
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li is, in its way, a love story. It is about the kind of rare, singular love
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This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! In late 2018, my best friend and I signed up for a half marathon and trained through winter, following a training plan she
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I want to read more utopian fiction–fiction that imagines that another, better world is possible, and considers the ways that we might get there. In literature and TV, dystopias abound, and I can see their appeal. I find them too often relatable, and regularly riveting. Our way of being so often feels imperiled. Climate change
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I am not a big fan of sweeping New Year’s resolutions — for reading, or for anything else. I can be very goal-oriented, but I prefer to focus on flexible goals I can easily incorporate into my life, that I can revisit and change or meet with a degree of ease and move on from.
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In The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, Rina Raphael takes an in-depth look at the myriad ways wellness has infiltrated contemporary American life and how women, in particular, are under immense pressure to subscribe to ever-evolving and expanding definitions of “healthy” and “well.” People turn to this giant
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When asked to pick an emotion from Baking by Feel, I gravitated immediately toward caring. Caring is what I strive to be, even when it is not exactly how I am feeling in the moment. When it can be so easy to tune out and turn off and be apathetic, caring — about others, about
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