#chimimanda ngozi adichie

[anorganizedstreet]

[yepthatsacowalright]

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”

[bibliollama]

Books With Orange Covers

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but…

[permanentreverie]

books read in 2024

1 - ruthless vows (rebecca ross): jan 2 - 5

2 - atonement (ian mcewan): jan 1 - 7

3 - the stolen heir (holly black): jan 9 - 11

4 - clockwork angel (cassandra clare): jan 12 - 15

5 - archer’s voice (mia sheridan): jan 15 - 23

6 - the flatshare (beth o’leary): jan 28 - 30 / (reread)

7 - check, please! book 1: #hockey (ngozi ukazu): jan 31

8 - check, please! book 2: sticks and scones (ngozi ukazu): feb 1 - 2

9 - indigo eyes (maeve hazel): feb 1 - 6

10 - book lovers (emily henry): feb 7 - 11 / (reread)

11 - a cuban girl’s guide to tea and tomorrow (laura taylor namey): feb 12 - 15

12 - the wake-up call (beth o’leary): feb 12 - 17

13 - eleanor oliphant is completely fine (gail honeyman): feb 19 - 28

14 - the seven year slip (ashley poston): feb 28 - mar 3

15 - the road trip (beth o’leary): mar 3 - 6

16 - the youthful you who was so beautiful (jiu yue xi): mar 6 - 11 / (reread)

17 - i hope this doesn’t find you (ann liang): mar 14 - 16

18 - the great divorce (c.s. lewis): mar 29 - 31

19 - the foxhole court (nora sakavic): apr 3 - 5 / (reread)

20 - the raven king (nora sakavic): apr 5 - 7 / (reread)

21 - the king’s men (nora sakavic): apr 7 - 11 / (reread)

22 - tweet cute (emma lord): mar 22 - apr 12

23 - society of the snow: the definitive account of the world’s greatest survival story (pablo vierci): apr 12 - 13

24 - the switch (beth o’leary): apr 16 - 18

25 - pride and prejudice (jane austen): apr 11 - 23 / (reread) (audiobook)

26 - the sunshine court (nora sakavic): apr 18 - 26

27 - longbourn (jo baker): apr 23 - 27

28 - society of the snow: the definitive account of the world’s greatest survival story (pablo vierci): apr 21 - 28 / (reread)

29 - the bodyguard (katherine center): apr 29

30 - bones and all (camille deangelis): apr 30 - may 5

31 - miracle in the andes (nando parrado): may 5 - 7

32 - lapvona (ottessa moshfegh): may 7 - 10

33 - do i know you? (emily wibberley & austin siegemund-broka): may 17 - 18

34 - moon of the crusted snow (waubgeshig rice): may 18 - 19

35 - next to you (hannah bonam-young): may 21 - 24

36 - beasts of a little land (juhea kim): may 30 - jun 2

37 - moon of the turning leaves (waubgeshig rice): may 20 - jun 3 / (audiobook)

38 - the girls i’ve been (tess sharpe): may 27 - jun 5

39 - americanah (chimimanda ngozi adichie): may 20 - jun 18

40 - emily wilde’s encyclopedia of fairies (heather fawcett): jun 19 - 22

41 - emily wilde’s map of the otherlands (heather fawcett): jun 22 - jul 1

42 - a good girls’s guide to murder (holly jackson): jun 21 - jul 1 / (reread) (audiobook)

43 - seven days in june (tia williams): jul 1 - 3

44 - the night tiger (yangsze choo): jul 4 - 7

45 - part of your world (abby jimenez): jul 9 - 11

46 - good girl, bad blood (holly jackson): jul 4 - 11 / (reread) (audiobook)

47 - your blood, my bones (kelly andrew): jul 13 - 17

48 - the summer of broken rules (k. l. walther): jul 13 - 21 / (audiobook)

49 - as good as dead (holly jackson): jul 25 - aug 9 / (reread) (audiobook)

50 - house of leaves (mark z. danielewski): aug 2 - 13

51 - the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse (charlie mackesy): aug 14

52 - daisy jones & the six (taylor jenkins reid): aug 13 - 23 / (reread) (audiobook)

53 - a crane among wolves (june hur): aug 14 - 23

54 - howl’s moving castle (dianna wynne jones): aug 25 - 27 / (reread) (audiobook)

55 - the reappearance of rachel price (holly jackson): aug 24 - 28

56 - five survive (holly jackson): sep 2 - 3

57 - the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society (mary ann shaffer & annie barrows): sep 2 - 4 / (reread) (audiobook)

58 - a business proposal, vol. 1 (haehwa): sep 4

59 - a business proposal, vol. 2 (haehwa): sep 6

60 - a business proposal, vol. 3 (haehwa): sep 7

61 - something more (jackie khalilieh): sep 9 - 10

62 - a novel love story (ashley poston): sep 14 - 15

63 - a business proposal, vol. 4 (haehwa): sep 16 - 17

64 - station eleven (emily st. john mandel): sep 17 - 20

65 - a business proposal, vol. 5 (haehwa): sep 22 - 24

66 - gideon the ninth (tamsyn muir): sep 29 - oct 5

67 - graveyard shift (m. l. rio): oct 23

68 - what lies between us (john marrs): oct 23 - 24

69 - house of hollow (krystal sutherland): oct 30 - nov 1

70 - the very secret society of irregular witches (sangu mandanna): nov 2

[takenquicklys]

thank you to the lovely @onadarklingplain for tagging me to talk about books!!!

an estimate of how many physical books i own: i have 27 currently with me in my apartment (with plans to treat myself to more tomorrow lol) and probably around 150 more at my parents’ house that i just don’t have space for at the moment :( fingers crossed i can build bookshelves next year!

favourite author: this is such a hard question! i consistently find myself going back to fredrik backman. i wouldn’t put anything he’s written on a list of “favourite books ever”, but i do find his writing style + setting very comforting. i also have a louise glück inspired tattoo, so that should probably count for something. or kazuo ishiguro, which needs no explanation.

a popular book i’ve never read and never intend to read: anything written by chimimanda ngozi adichie. i HAVE read notes on grief, which was wonderful. however, as someone who is not cis, i find the way she’s spoken and written about the trans experience, especially in the context of feminism, problematic and frankly hurtful. i don’t think i could read her writing again now that i know, which is really sad as i’ve heard nothing but positive things about most of her work.

a popular book i thought was just meh: alone with you in the ether by olivie blake. i’m actually nearly done with it and enjoyed the read in the moment- the prose is gorgeous, but i haven’t been able to bring myself to pick it back up and actually finish it since july (!!) because the characters are so insufferable.

longest book i own: les misérables, times 2! i own a paperback each in both french and english. a fun fact is that the french is around 100k words longer and english versions leave out some sections (mostly the digressions) entirely.

longest series i own all the books to: like kay, i also own the entire wheel of time series! my younger brother has started reading it though so i may have to let him claim them.

prettiest book i own: of the ones i have with me, mary oliver’s dream work!

a book or series i wish more people knew about: *gets on soapbox* swimming in the dark!!!!!!! it’s not too long and it’s probably the best book i’ve read this year. i finished it in march and promptly recommended it to @rosyjuly on anon (hi!) as well as pretty much every single one of my friends. it’s better if you’ve already read giovanni’s room!

book i’m reading now: milkman by anna burns, which is also very pretty!

book that’s been on my tbr for ages and i still haven’t read: this is embarrassing, but gone girl. at this point i don’t think i’ll ever read it. i’ve checked it out from the library six times!

do i own any books in a language other than english? yes! a ton! mostly french as that’s the only other language i can read that well- i would say my collection is 70% english 30% french. i also have a few philosophical texts in greek and a fredrik backman novel in the original swedish though i can’t remember which one.

paperback, hardback, or ebook? anything other than ebook lol. i only own copies of books i know i want to reread, so i usually check a first time read out from the library and i don’t have a preference between physical books then. when i’m buying, paperback all the way, i dog-ear as well and do unspeakable things to the spines

everyone i can think of to tag has already done this but if you read this far and you haven’t, consider yourself tagged

[haggishlyhagging]

As part of a far-flung community of fellow pop-culture feminists that has bloomed over the years, I've seen pop culture and media transform feminism, for better and for worse and feminism, in turn, change pop culture and media. But as I started to write this book, something weird happened: feminism got cool.

A current of excitement that had previously been humming just under the surface of mainstream culture suddenly amped up. In August 2014, Beyoncé commanded the stage at the close of MTV's Video Music Awards, the word "FEMINIST" glowing in neon lights behind her as her song "Flawless" sampled the words of Nigerian author Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. (“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much.’”) The sample concludes with Adichie paraphrasing the dictionary definition of "feminist": "The person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes." Though the song was already well known, and though Beyoncé's particular brand of business-minded feminism was threaded through lyrics dating back to her Destiny's Child days, the visual display served as her official flag in the ground. Bathed in spotlights, the biggest pop star in the world rocked the once-maligned label like a curve-hugging Met Gala dress, literally spelling it out for an audience of more than eight million.

Beyonce staking her claim to feminism was the start of a media domino effect. Shortly after, Emma Watson, beloved for years as Harry Potter's Hermione, gave a speech on the importance of gender equality to the United Nations noting, among other things, that "[i]t is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum, instead of [as] two sets of opposing ideals." The pop singer Taylor Swift, who several years earlier had disavowed feminism, quickly changed tack with a media announcement that, in fact, she'd been feminist all along. At Paris Fashion Week, Chanel's runway-show finale took the form of a feminist rally, with models draped in the label's signature tweeds raising signs that read "History is Her Story" and "Women's Rights Are More Than Alright." Brands like Verizon, Always, and Pantene began centering feminist themes in their ads for wireless plans, maxi pads, and shine-boosting shampoos. And my Google alert for "women and feminism," which used to turn up lonely articles with headlines like "Feminism: Outmoded and Unpopular," began teeming with woman-power boosterism: "Beyonce's Hip New Club: Feminism," "Emma Watson Gives Feminism New Life," "Why Male Feminists Are Hot." Seemingly overnight, almost every female celebrity—and a fair number of male ones—who walked a red carpet was asked whether they were feminists. References to Lena Dunham and Leaning In were suddenly cropping up in everything from gossip columns to in-flight magazines. The increasing presence of transgender women in mainstream pop culture—Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, the Amazon series Transparent—offered new opportunities to talk about gender as a limiting social construct. Cosmopolitan, the bible of man-pleasing sex tips, began embracing more explicitly political writers and subjects, though it will still teach you "40 Ways to Blow His Mind." Feminism, so long dismissed as the realm of the angry, the cynical, the man-hating, and the off-puttingly hairy, was officially a thing. It was hot. And, perhaps most important, it was sellable.

-Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once

[femfreq]

In this week's FFR we have a pipin' hot entertainment roundup! 🎥🟣☝🏽

Who's being tragically transphobic this week? What's the latest in video game labor? What brave artist can tackle the dreaded menace of cancel culture?

We talk all this and more. Find it with the link in our bio!

[battleczar]

If you’re more interested in protecting your own feelings by policing the language used by women of color than you are in helping those women to achieve liberation from their oppression, that’s bad, buddy. Work on fixing that.

[rebelgirlreads]

~ We should all be feminists ~

[free-air-for-fish]

"Culture does not make people. People make culture."

We Should All Be Feminists - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[jeparletoutesleslangues]

5/50 ✨✨50 days of productivity✨✨ Today was on the lower end of academic productivity because babysitting was so draining. I didn't accomplish Physics or Bio but I did finish Purple Hibiscus (btw I gave it 5/5 on goodreads). I did a lot of Spanish duolingo progress as well. With the time that I had left, I did some Bible journaling. So, today's goals will be moved to tomorrow (there's always another day!). And my next book to read is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (it's like a continuation to Hamlet but not by Shakespeare).

[alwaysbringabookwithyou]

Book: Purple Hibiscus

Author: Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

Rating: 5*

Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.

When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili’s father sends her and her brother away to stay with their aunt, a University professor, whose house is noisy and full of laughter. There, Kambili and her brother discover a life and love beyond the confines of their father’s authority. The visit will lift the silence from their world and, in time, give rise to devotion and defiance that reveal themselves in profound and unexpected ways. 

This is a book about the promise of freedom; about the blurred lines between childhood and adulthood; between love and hatred, between the old gods and the new.

This was the second book I read for fun while on Easter vac and I pretty much devoured it. I've been curious to read something by Adichie for a really long time now. 

I have to say, I wasn't disappointed. Adichie's writing is something else. Incredibly taut and intense while still managing to create a world of sights, sounds, smells, totally unique and apart from anything I've ever encountered before. I could feel the heat, taste the rice, hear the cassettes- and more importantly, I could feel the tension, the discomfort, the anxiety. Adichie manages to cram so much of the universe, of particularly Nigeria, into the relatively small spaces that the novel is mostly set in. Nuanced and detailed, her characters are incredible. Kambili, the protag, has a semi-literal journey to find her voice as she struggles to overcome her silence and speak up for herself while navigating family and social life. 

It was a great blend of the personal and the political, and a reminder that the personal is always political, and the political is also personal.

I would definitely recommend this book! Great characters, intense plot, and absolutely sensuous writing.

I'm thinking of reading another of Adichie's books this summer after my exams end- which one would you recommend?

[sarahhentley]

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller We say to girls: "You can have ambition, but not too much You should aim to be successful, but not too successful Otherwise, you will threaten the man" Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage I am expected to make my life choices Always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage And we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors Not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing But for the attention of men We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political And economic equality of the sexes

“Why we should all be feminists” By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Flawless - Beyoncé

[profeminist]

Source

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Getting Criticized for Her Comments About Transgender Women

[rebelgirlreads]

We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves more likable.

Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. ‘Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.’ 

[aheadfullofbooks]

In making the writing of Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie and the word “feminist” the final statement of her 2014 MTV Video Music Awards performance, Beyoncé acquainted young girls around the world with the concept of feminism completely free from more than a century of baggage. It’s hard to overstate how important that is when you consider how many of us learned about feminism through media and pop culture stereotypes of angry, sexless harpies.

Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once- From Riot Grrrl To CoverGirl Buying & Selling Of A Political Movement (x)