I recently wrote about the 18th-century French painter Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun for Feminist Book Club’s “Reclaiming the Canon” series, so I was excited to see a new historical novel out about one of Vigée Le Brun’s contemporaries, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Susanne Dunlap’s The Portraitist is a novelized account of Labille-Guiard’s career as one of the […]
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I’ve always said that in another timeline, I’d be a crisis PR executive. I’m fascinated by public apologies and how deeply terrible the majority of them are. We’ve witness bad apologies from Will Smith to James Charles to… some of our competitors *cough*… and honestly? I love dissecting them, imagining what they could’ve said differently,
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There just aren’t enough books about friendship, you know? For many of us, our friendships are some of the most important relationships we’ll ever have, and they deserve to be celebrated and represented in the books we read. In this segment Sally shares five of her favorite books about friendship. In the second segment, Jen
On December 8th a certain book choice award was announced and we were thoroughly unimpressed. We decided it’s time for a NEW book choice award that celebrates the books that have found a place on our diversified bookshelves. We took nominations from our community of readers and opened up voting to the public. We received
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Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood is a collection of three STEM-romance stories. In the first story, “Under One Roof,” an environmental engineer, Mara, has inherited a home. The only catch? Mara has also inherited the roommate of her nightmares — a big-oil lawyer. Can diametrically opposed foes even cohabitate? In the second story,
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So, someone has recently come out to you. Or maybe you suspect someone will in the near future. Or maybe you just like reading blog posts about hypothetical situations that do not and will never apply to you. Whatever brought you here, welcome! I’m happy to help. Coming out can be a daunting process that
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The Opposite of Loneliness collects the essays and short stories of Marina Keegan, writer, journalist, and playwright, who attended Yale back in the early 2010s. Keegan was an avid writer and was set to work at The New Yorker after she graduated from college. Her future was bright with the promise of published works in
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I knew I would never be a member of Destiny’s Child. That fact became fully apparent when their song “Lose My Breath” entered the zeitgeist. I am trying to keep my breath. Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle stomped around in stiletto boots, cargo pants, and crop top parkas in dark alleys, asking, “Can you keep up?”
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I am not a big fan of sweeping New Year’s resolutions — for reading, or for anything else. I can be very goal-oriented, but I prefer to focus on flexible goals I can easily incorporate into my life, that I can revisit and change or meet with a degree of ease and move on from.
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The new year is right around the corner, and we have our sights set on all the 2023 book releases! Keep reading to see which titles the FBC staff is most looking forward to. Caution: Your TBR might fall over. Steph’s Picks: When we received Dial A for Aunties in one of our Feminist Book
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I used to roll my eyes when people told me they watched The Bachelor franchise. This was easy to do since I’d never actually watched a single episode. I just went off my preconceived beliefs about the show and anyone who watched it. But when my sister moved in with me in 2018, she sat
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Don’t let the title fool you; Dava Shastri’s Last Day is about so much more than Dava Shastri’s last day. Kirthana Ramisetti’s exciting and heartwarming debut novel is about the life of a self-made billionaire who has uncompromising ambition, serious concern about legacy, and deep — if sometimes misconstrued — love for her family. The
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![This month’s theme is as relevant as ever: Immigration 🌎️
It’s easy to say that immigrants deserve human rights, and it’s hard to believe that this fact has continued to be controversial. So many of us are, after all, living on stolen land, in a nation built by slaves and immigrants.
We know this means there’s a lot of work to do: to learn about the immigrant struggle, to develop empathy for their experiences, and to share their stories with others. With so many people displaced right now and a growing narrative of us vs. them, the civilized and the other, we’re grateful to have a space where our members can come together to do some of this work in our online community.
Want to get in on the conversation? Head to the link in our bio to check it out.
What books would you add that explore the theme of “immigration”?
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