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A short but powerful book! Ernaux has the power of bringing you into her life and making you feel everything with her.

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I attended literature and sociology classes, ate
In the university canteen, I drank coffee twice a day
in La Faluche, the student bar. Yet I was living in a different world. There were the other girls, with their empty bellies, and there was me.

In her works Ernaux perfectly connects her personal experiences with social events/atmosphere in the society. In this book, she looks through her diary on the topic of abortion. She elaborates through her painful experience of a abortion with distance, yet very emotional, and builds that intimate experience into wider social commentary. Excellent. #audiowalks

Still settling into my new job with some big goals for the next few weeks so I will be ducking in as I can.

This was recommended to me a couple of Mo tha ago by my favorite librarian. It‘s a fast (

(The same situation will probably occur after this book is published. My determination, my efforts, all this secret, and even clandestine work no one has been apprised of the project - all this will vanish overnight. I shall have no more power over my text, exposed to the public just like my body was exposed at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital.)

https://lithub.com/in-the-super-8-years-annie-ernaux-drifts-between-domesticity-...

https://youtu.be/vhg5VNcPoWg

#SkodenReadathon
#indiecember

Intro

Indiecember

Blind Eye Book Club

Weekly Highlights

Happening by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translator)

Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont

After The Carnage by Tara June Winch

Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
by Jesse Wente

Congrats to Annie Ernaux, recipient of the Nobel Prize! Linked below is an interesting article from LitHub on the adaptation of the tagged book about her own experience with abortion. Posted online shortly after it was made clear that the overturning of Roe V. Wade was imminent:
https://lithub.com/happening-captures-the-horrifying-everydayness-of-illegal-abo...

#womenintranslation #nonfiction
This is a brutally honest memoir about Ernaux's abortion she had in the 60's when abortion was still illegal in France. She was a young college student and very determined. The writing is wonderful, not overly emotional but still very descriptive. It is a short piece, just under 100 pages but highly impactful.

In 1963 France, Annie Ernaux had an illegal abortion. She tells the story here in frank terms, putting a face on abortion. When we seek to legislate something, we should understand it first, and stories such as these are important to understanding what happens when rights are taken away or not permitted in the first place.

The event represents a total human experience, which concerns not only life or death, but also prohibition and law, lived through the body of the Ernaux. The desire of the author to tell an event of her life is motivated by the clandestinity in which he lived the abortion that, although it belongs to the past, is worth denouncing to not forget the victims of the past.

#anniernaux

Rouen 1963, Annie is in her early 20s and finds out she‘s pregnant. Only thing is, abortion is illegal in France.

This book shows that just because abortion is illegal doesn‘t stop women from having them, they are just making them more dangerous. You can‘t prevent women from removing an embryo.

Ernaux write that if she doesn‘t write about this experience, she‘s obscuring the reality of women and support the male dominance of the world.

Profound translation of Annie Ernaux‘s experience of being 23 and having an illegal abortion in 1963, in France. Her fear but determination abounds. Worth a read for sure.

#WeeklyForecast

I‘m going to continue reading Invisible Women #SheSaid.

I want to finish Square Haunting.

I‘ve just started Unsettled Ground, and want to read that hopefully both the Lalami and the Ernaux.

A poignant, matter of fact memoir of Ernaux's illegal abortion in the 1964 France. It is chilling, yet completely riveting. A glimpse at a time not far away where women had few choices, a terrifying view of what might be again or is for women.
#readinginfrenchjuly

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So have you ever wondered what everyone is talking about, or what # s mean. Normally they are event. The team behind the #secretsantagoespostal have started a new account to follow just to see and get involved in all the cool events.

I'm sure you will find a collection of photo challenges, buddy reads, chapter a day groups, traveling books, etc.

You can follow and you can submit. Check out the page and use the #LitsyHappenings. More info 👇🏻