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What motivates the writer?

[Be Yourself] Which self? Which of my many - well really, that's what it's coming to - hundreds of selves?

Finished this graphic memoir exploring the life of the author and of Katherine Mansfield. Nice to tick this off the list of books I'm "currently reading".

... I was thinking more of sex & drugs & travel...

I had something a little more... spectacular in mind...

I loved this! "Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, it examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes." Beautiful art and hand-lettering. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that bisexuality is one of the aspects covered in the lives of these two women. #lgbtq

Katherine Mansfield: "Cor blimey, a smoking room - now I feel like a man."
Virginia Woolf: "Actually this is my writing room - but yes, one must have a room of one's own, like a man does, and an income."

@Suet624 asked about women's bookstores, which grew out of the feminist movement of the 70s, with a focus on women's issues & books written by women, stocking publications hard to find elsewhere. I don't know if any are left in Canada. Toronto Women's Bookstore had a focus on books by women of colour. The Women's Bookshop in Auckland keeps a women-focus while stocking a few titles by men, including a gay section.

"I was fired from the laundry factory pretty quickly... for pointing out my boss' oversights."

A similar thing happened to me on a summer job while at college, working 12 hours a day or more without overtime pay. My boss' response was to say "That's why I hate hiring university students." And then he told me it would be my last day of work.

I'm really enjoying this graphic novel that's a combination of personal memoir and a biography of Katherine Mansfield. Sometimes, as in the panel above, the author imagines having conversations with Mansfield.

Spent a whole lot of New Zealand dollars at the Women's Bookshop in Auckland today.😊