I have not been reading much lately. I am slowly making my way through Pride and Prejudice. It has been at least 2 years since my last reread. It is nice to revisit an old favourite.

Very very impressed with this book. I personally engaged more with some parts than others and it was a loooong read for me (partially due to my own slow reading pace atm), but very worth while. Definitely a book to read during the years ahead of us. #trump #climatechange

I have been on a bit of a Fausto-Sterling binge in preparation of a first lecture/class on naturalising discourse about gender as part of a longer course. So much to learn!

I absolutely loved this. It adresses many of my struggles this past year and made me feel less incompetent and more eager to engage with the world. It does get repetitive at times and I think some chapters will appeal more than others (I have heard different accounts: either the first or the second half in particular), but this is going straight on the reread list for this year. So necessary (perhaps unfortunately) .

I finally get to read this and put it to immediate use for a course on #gender

This book people! Klein manages to connect austerity, refugees, climate change, human rights and so much of what I care for. I want to quote the whole book to you, but will refrain and only highlight some things... (also, am only 24% in so bound to discover much more)

In between "This Changes Everything" I am also reading from this essay collection. Slowly. But enjoying it.

(I am bound to do multiple posts per book because my reading is so slow lately. I am still here though.)

This seems an appropriate 1st read for 2017.

"Or maybe we do look—really look—but then, inevitably, we seem to forget. Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it‘s hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right."

This, I want to remember this:

"So whatever I‘m doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities and I think that this is an era where we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism."

I really enjoyed this. Quick and great read. What stands out is Gabi's voice and personality. Not your every day protagonist. I love how in between the lines are great reflections & quotables. How Gabi learns to be/is a bad ass feminist, makes mistakes, and then learns from those. Definitely recommended!
#diversebooks #diversereads #Gabireadalong

Began (one of) my last book(s) of 2016. Looking forward to this one.

Catching up on essential literature for the #phd late on a friday night. That feeling when you return to a book you read years ago and it suddenly proves so useful again.

I know everyone loved this book: nothing new here, I did too. loved the humanity, friendship, love. The way they helped, respected each other and made the other grow. There is stuff that maybe was not perfect, but I just really enjoyed this.

Too dark for pictures. Anyway, am about to begin reading this.

Started reading Gabi today! #Gabireadalong Only 10% in and can't believe what a quick read it has been thus far and how much diversity I have already encountered. Why can't all books be like this?

I may very well be the slowest reader in the world taken from the pool of (former) bookbloggers, but I am still reading! This has been my "baby won't sleep" read these past 2 weeks. Enjoying it a lot thus far. Hope this won't make me cry (I somehow think it will?)

Look what arrived in the mail today! Because I had to have a paper copy once I started reading my free digital one. #hopeinthedark is such a poignant read thus far, particularly now.

Started the Dutch translation of Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender today. This is a long overdue reread. In Dutch because I hope to use quotes in an upcoming public lecture on #gender #sexism and #feminism.

Today's reading... I fully expect to love this of course.

We are at the end of the Dutch Children's Books week and this was probably Pim's favourite. Even if the Dutch translation does not always offer perfect prose.

Got this in the mail today. Figured I might as well try to make winter less dark.

This started out as a bit too much "whiny teenager" for me, but the middle and end part of the book quickly redeemed that. The language in this book is beautiful. And I love the scenes between Mai and her grandmother. These are truly the core of the book: Mai's growing respect for her grandmother and Vietnam as they visit her grandmother's birth village together. #diversereads #diversebooks

I do not pick up paper copies as easily as ebooks on the phone with the little one. But in those rare moments I have to myself I am trying to read this one by Angela Thirkell. She's one of my go-to comfort reading authors after all.

I want to go back in time and tell my younger self to read this. This is the kind of thoughtful and yet wonderful book I wish I'd read. It is so effective in its portrayal of both racism and bullying in school. And yet it manages to provide a picture of hope: The sanctuary of good friends and the comfort that can be found in music. What I felt was particularly strong was the portrayal of silent standers-by, without necessarily judging people.

“I tell you of loss, my child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don‘t judge it proper or ugly. It‘s simply there and yours. When you should happen to cry, then cry, knowing that just as easily you will laugh again and cry again. Your feelings will enter the currents of your core and there they shall remain.”

I am finally reading this classic in mission history. Have read parts before, but figure it is about time I read the whole thing.