pickFinished this with a cup of the most amazing coffee from a local shop.
Thought the caffeine was fitting, given the title 🙃😃
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pickFinished this with a cup of the most amazing coffee from a local shop.
Thought the caffeine was fitting, given the title 🙃😃
pickReminded me a bit of Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work, an angry book in a restrained way. So much rang true
pickAnna, living on an isolated Scottish island with her family, is struggling with isolation, sleepless nights and the loss of herself when she finds the skeleton of a baby in the garden. At heart this is about motherhood, a family emerging from the bombshell of new parenthood, with added layers involving family history, inherited wealth and the power it holds, the mystery of the dead baby and lots of history of the island itself. A great read.
pickA Scottish Hebridean island ( fictitious) holds the ancestral home of the Cassinghams. Married to the heir to the Island and mother of his children learns of the skeleton of a dead baby in the garden. Holiday makers bring their anorexic daughter to the Island. Researching the dead baby, maintaining a grip on motherhood to her two sons and counselling the anorexic daughter all take their toll. The story weaves past and present and is a great read
When you are a historian trying to work while being stuck on a small island with your two small children, a husband too focused on his own work, and suffering from insomnia, then every night might feel like a #HardDaysNight. That‘s the reality for Anna. Add the skeleton of a small child into the mix, and you have the recipe for a great book 👌
#AnglophileApril
? "Aphrodite tonight
She's lifting up her dress and child
Her stomach was so tight
And she sees herself fading" ?
After having a child it's easy to look at yourself in the mirror and wonder: who is #thatgirl? This book is described as a "darkly funny portrait of life with small children" and I am so in!
#TimbitTunes @Cinfhen
pickA wonderfully told story which combines an insightful picture of domestic life with a historical story that mirrors the narrative.Anna, historian of infant mortality, finds herself on a remote Sc Isle trying to prepare a research paper but struggling with her role as mother to 2 yng boys incl the nightime feed + a husband unaware of her individuality. An infant skeleton,19c nurses's letters, + anorexic teen add to scope of this brilliant bk.
Anna Bennett could definitely use #eightdaysaweek to get everything done. With a book to write, a toddler who won‘t sleep, a obsessive 7-year-old and a husband who values his job and time more than his wife‘s, there are definitely enough to do!
#HeyJune
pickA great read, the main premise of the story being how the MC attempts to juggle her career and motherhood. Way too many scenarios I totally recognise in this - I did chuckle through many of them and nod my head a lot. The Judgement of Motherhood it‘s called in here - you know where the whole of society gets to judge how crap you are!!
17 pages in.....I‘m thinking the MC is me. Loving this book so far, have snorted and laughed a lot already 😁
Today's charity shop find. On TBR for over a year. As new. 80p. #RudeNotTo
The MCs in Moss' books are all #underpressure - in Night Waking, a woman has to live on a Scottish island with her husband, who's busy working, and her kids, who won't sleep through. In The Tidal Zone, a man is trying to deal with almost having lost his teenage daughter while trying to maintain some kind of normal life.
I would highly recommend both!
#Septembowie
1. I finished 5 books - 4 print and 1 audiobook. I haven't counted the pages. My favourite reads was Night Waking and The Vegetarian 👍
2. I read for 24 hours
3. I love the posts and challenges every 3 hours!
4. Make this more international
5. I can't wait to participate in the next readathon in January!
#24in48 #closingsurvey
I love #spinepoetry!
Night waking,
Speak easy
Love & Misadventure
Under the Skin
Never Let Me Go
#24in48
pickMoss writes poetically and with a sarcastic touch about motherhood, married life and having a professional career. Moss shows how you can love your children, but not enjoy being a mother, and she does it in a way that makes it okay. This was a great read, and I am so glad I finally read some more by Moss.
My first book of #24in48 readathon done, and now I am on to the next!
"These sea swans seem to stay awake all night, sailing through the fading light like ships bound for far countries, and they have faces as smooth and neutral as the corps de ballet, faces that can't communicate any level of grief or pain. Perhaps this is an assetbin species that mate for life."
Only one chapter in, and my heart is breaking a little bit already.
#currentlyreading
This is my 3rd Sarah Moss book. They have all been slower reads, but very good. Beer and reading are the best way to spend my 4th! #beerandbooks
Friday night reading. I've been in a slump lately, and am trying to get out of it. This book hasn't grabbed me yet, but I like the writing and think it has potential.
My TBRish for the #readathon ! More on my blog:
https://ginlemonade.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/my-tbr-for-deweys-readathon/
pickI'm in awe of Sarah Moss's talent, I always scour her bibliographies because her work is so thoroughly researched. In Night Waking she examines all aspects of motherhood and what it means to (and for) women. This is no rosy picture but it is so grounded in history I found myself forgetting it is fictional. If you like your lit with an academic challenge and a feminist theme I urge you to read her. If that's not enough she is also wickedly funny.
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Sarah Moss is a master of imagery that is both beautiful and disconcerting.
Conversation with a toddler 😂😂😂
pickThis book was beautiful, lyrical, hilarious, enraging, heartbreaking, atmospheric, and incisive. It's about the balance between a woman's career and motherhood, domesticity, isolation and the weight and immediacy of history. 5/5 🌟s
(Pic is of St. Kilda, a tiny now-abandoned island in the Outer Hebrides which the fictional island of Colsay is based on in NW)
This book hits me right in the feels and then makes me cackle. So good 😂😂😂
"The problem with the logic of despair is that it is right, only not useful."
"The problem with the logic of despair is that it is right, only not useful."
New author for me have been reading raves.Love to discover new books.
