Such a beautiful passage in #TheDreamers. Just a group of young women who want to be free in the world, who deserve to be free in the world, being held back by something out of their control and something they never asked for. And who is narrating this book? Radical reading: is it the virus? #karenwalkerthompson#virus#sleep#thirdperson
Loving reading a Swedish thriller as I‘m whisked around Sweden for the first time ever. Perfect scene setter (obviously) for what is so far a twisty, human and inhuman gripper of a read. #thriller#murdermystery#scandinoir
Waiting for a flight in Copenhagen airport after a beautiful weekend away. Jessie Burton‘s lovely imagination is making leaving just a little bit happier. So far, prefer this to The Miniaturist. #jessieburton#art.
About to dive into this, it's been on my list forever but #ThePower got me tingling for more Atwood in my life. #margaretatwood#feminist
pickI am obsessed with this book, it's everything my soul needed to read. I'm only about a third of the way through, but Naomi Alderman's way of describing the women's power makes my chest buzz. I found myself flexing my fingers earlier half expecting electricity to zap right out of them. #feminist#thepower
Halfway through the final book Lina and Lenu are essentially playing with their dolls again, as they set out doing in the series, except this time with their own daughters - one of the babies even taking on the name of one of the dolls. Lina threw Elena's baby into a cellar in the first book. And who is the lost child the title refers to..?
pickFerrante's novels make me excited in a way I've never encountered - I've never felt breathless from a book before the Neapolitan Novels but every few pages there will be an insight or observation that makes me feel winded. Beautiful, detailed, human books that paint an incredible portrait of a changing world. Can't believe I only have one left to read :(
I love the way Ferrante summarises the cycle of violence in the characters' world with just one sentence between children.
