Drama-Lovers Book Club

 The Butterfly:

For some reason I can't quote you today.  

Have you read Good and Mad:  The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister?

I read Volume One of  Women and Gender in the Western Past.  It's used as a text book so it is dense.  Have volume 2 waiting on me on the shelf.    Also on the shelf- Down Girl, Invisible Women, and The Woman They Could not Silence (also a doorstop size).

When Women Were Dragons was good, but too long.  It was an allegory of the power of women's anger.

Hi Butterfly, no I don't know them, I'll check them out, sounds interesing! Thanx!

What is this badge from? Which series?

 leafless7:

Born Again

Thanks! I'll add it to my on-hold list.

Im reading too many books at the same time but luckily I was able to finish a manhwa. I read Under the Oak Tree. Its similar to a story my friend was spoiling me about a few years ago so I wonder if its the same story (she was reading the webnovel I believe). But anyway so I read the book and then went online to find the rest of the series. It was fun. 

Hey all, how do i join this club?

I only finished one book in April, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.  It was based on lectures she gave at Cambridge.  Published in 1929, there were elements that sounded familiar today.  Woolf discussed how women writers would benefit from a room of their own to write in, free from distractions. She also talked about how men loved writing about women, usually to women's detriment.   Such as books describing how women were less intelligent, creative, etc.  The inequalities in education, societal restrictions on women, and financial inequalities were also discussed.

I've had this book for years and attempted to read it two or three times.  The early pages were a slog but once I pushed through I found many of her insights on point.  She might be happy about the progress women have made yet also disappointed at how TPTB in some places are trying to wrestle away that progress.