emily2348's reviews
243 reviews

so many amazing essays on the harms of sado-masochism specifically within the lesbian community. essential reading especially with the rise in these dynamics being displayed. did get a little repetitive but that did get the point across very effectively. the tools of the patriarchy will never be liberation!

read two poetry books this month who am i?! i loved the 2nd half of this but the 1st half was quite boring. overall a very eco-feminist anthology of poetry. i loved all the poems about her cats too. “Shadows of the burning” and “The moon is always female” were my favourites from this.

absolutely haunting book on lesbian longing and suicide, Qiu Miaojin was such a beautiful writer :(

i don’t think i can fully put into words how much this book has affected me. the way Susan Griffin writes of oppression through pornography is so deeply visceral. she viewed misogyny, racism and anti-semitism through this lens of a pornographic mind in such a way that has just blown me away. i will definitely be reading more of her work!

shes definitely not a lesbian as is described on the back, as she slept with two different men within the first 50 pages off her own accord… but a very heartbreaking story on longing for a child. i hope that shepard died for what he did to her, calling her a sex worker is a very light way of saying she was raped. do not listen to the blurb. eva baltasar is still an auto-buy author though!

i love her critique of the typical male existentialist thinker, the first essay was probably my favourite. i liked the idea in the second essay of non-secular prayer and it’s application to goodness. Also enjoyed her explanation of the importance of taking art and literature into account in philosophy. i definitely am intrigued to read her fiction and see how she applies this in it.

picked up because i saw it in a charity shop and never heard anyone speak about it. amazing and gut-wrenching short stories on growing up black and female in the south of the usa. “The Child Who Favored Daughter” was prolifically haunting.

a desolate read on domestic abuse

such a good book on the way animals are treated, i loved the protagonist. i also loved the way that Tokarczuk showed the parallels between the way men treat animals and women (for example the hunters being the same men who go to brothels, the animals they killed being mainly female and the violation of those female animals), highly recommend very much an eco-feminist piece of fiction!

“Oh yes, it was one of those starving Young Ladies that naively let themselves be lured in winter by frozen apples, are caught in snares and die in torment, strangled by the wire. As I slowly became aware of what had happened here, I was gradually filled with Horror. He had caught the Deer in a snare, killed her, then butchered, roasted and eaten her body. One Creature had devoured another, in the silence and stillness of the Night. Nobody had protested, no thunderbolt had struck. And yet Punishment had come upon the devil, though no one's hand had guided death.”

can’t believe it has took me this long to start this book wow. this was so beautifully written, Ijeoma actually made me cry in every chapter. from her first love to her abusive marriage this book may haunt me for a while. clearly the lesbian religious upbringing madness is universal.

“And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.”