#clairemessud

[candiikismet]

I’d like to introduce to all my friends and followers a casually-paced book club hosted by @wolfcubme and myself for the year 2020! Whether you’re an avid reader or it’s one of your resolutions, we’d be excited to have you!!! With our weekly chapter review set for Sunday at 6 pm ET via Instagram live, we’re looking forward to getting into chapters 1 through 5 on the 23rd. I am proud to present our pick for our first read 👉🏾 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/030727666X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1581484291&sr=8-1 . THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN - The 2006 novel by Claire Messud is praised as a beautifully written story about three friends, each vastly different in personality and background, living and thriving in New York City. Each on the verge of thirty, educated and privileged Danielle, Marina and Julius, struggle with their grasp on their personal and professional lives in the fast-paced city. Grab a copy today and join us Sunday for our very first discussion! 💖 SO EXCITED! . #bookstagram #bookclub #clairemessud #books #booklover #bookworm #reading #readingtime #readingchallenge #readingtime https://www.instagram.com/p/B8sTXEZFWzX/?igshid=1gpzauq6xo70s

[nannermack]

Haven’t posted a #bookreview in awhile but #clairemessud ‘s #theburninggirl is worth a mention. Short, interesting and insightful but a lacking in closure and Messud’s typical thoroughness. Don’t buy this book@ it do #readthis and let me know what you think. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPcMT0TFfOC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gasstationb]

“Yea, writing is essential to me. It’s my way of living in the world.” / Claire Messud Born October 8, 1966, Claire Messud is a novelist and literature and creative writing professor best known for “The Emperor's Children”. 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotesclairemessud . . . . . . . . . . #gasstationburrito #onthisday #literaryhistory #bookstagram #books #bookworm #author #authorquotes #authormemes #writer #writerquotes #clairemessud #whyiwrite #writing https://www.instagram.com/p/CGGfVfGhosb/?igshid=eyz44fyh7tje

[xxravenonmyshoulderxx]

A few purchases from Best of Friends 👫 Gift 🎁 Shop at the Millennium Library 📚 today. Just applied to volunteer there! Wish me luck! #millenniumlibrary #bestoffriendsgiftshop #black #bookstagram #amreading #bic #gelocity #pen #thewomanupstairs #clairemessud #alfredaknopf #theshadowqueen #sandragulland #harperperennial (at Winnipeg, Manitoba) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvxRZulAHGn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xd3yg2u9uyr1

[honorsocietyfanforever]

The Woman Upstairs By #clairemessud #bookgeek #booknerd #booklover #bookinstagram #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvHJyelA6y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f4pc70k1vot

[yourdisappointedarms]

“I had not thought of myself as a person who could choose. Freedom was a terrible prospect, exhilarating and terrible.” #clairemessud #thelastlife #literarycrush #inspirationalquotes #dayten (at Highland Square)

[wordsshewrote-blog1]

She wondered if he, too, experienced it: the knowledge that this mattered.

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

[otherwisebooks-blog]

Some of our favorites back in stock! Come see us on July 8 @7thpublicmarket and July 14 @campnorthend. #charlotte #popupshop #womenwriters #paulahawkins #jkrowling #marjanesatrapi #djunabarnes #annleckie #clairemessud

[loveinquotesposts]

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I needed them, sure, and we can all argue about the moment when the balance tipped and I needed them so much that I would hurt. But you can't pretend they didn't need me too, each in his or her way. They wouldn't necessarily have admitted it - except Reza - but you can't tell me they didn't love me. The heart knows. The body knows. When I was with Sirena, or Reza, or Skandar, the air moved differently between us; time passed differently; words or gestures meant more than themselves. If you've never had this experience-but who has not been visited by love, laughing?-then you can't understand. And if you have, you don't need me to say another word. ― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

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[fantasticradiouk]

@simonschusterartworks with WEST Jacket design: Lauren Peters-Collaer Art director: Jaya Miceli Scribner * “To read Carys Davies’s West is to encounter a myth, or potent dream—a narrative at once new and timeless.” #ClaireMessud, #TheBurningGirl. * “Davies is a deft, audacious visionary.” #TéaObreht, #TheTigersWife * When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn sister and heads west. With only a barnyard full of miserable animals and her dead mother’s gold ring to call her own, Bess, unprotected and approaching womanhood, fills lonely days tracing her father’s route on maps at the subscription library and waiting for his letters to arrive. Bellman, meanwhile, wanders farther and farther from home, across harsh and alien landscapes, in reckless pursuit of the unknown. * From Frank O’Connor Award winner #CarysDavies, #West is a spellbinding and timeless #epic-in-miniature, an eerie parable of the American frontier and an electric monument to possibility. * #books #bookstagram #igreads #bookart #bookdesign #booknerd #TheRedemptionofGalenPike #literary #booknerdigans #bookporn #bookaholic #bookshelfie #bookaddict #bibliophile #instabooks #bookish #bookworm #booksofinstagram #bookcover #booklove #booktube #bookshelf @laurenapc @jayam66

[sceneofanangel]

The Woman Upstairs is like that. We keep it together. You don't make a mess and you don't make mistakes and you don't call people weeping at four in the morning.

Claire Messud (The Woman Upstairs)

[ireadthedictionaryasachild]

Happy to be working with English author Gabriel Packard on the release of his debut novel, The Painted Ocean. It’s Brick Lane meets Lord of The Flies. Advanced Reader Copies available upon request! 

[lilapinot-blog]

“When you’re a girl, you never let on that you are proud, or that you know you’re better at history, or biology, or French, than the girl who sits beside you...and you put yourself down whenever you can so that people won’t feel threatened by you, so they’ll like you, because you wouldn’t want them to know that in your heart, you are proud, and maybe even haughty, and are riven by thoughts the revelation of which would show everyone how deeply Not Nice you are. You learn a whole other polite way of speaking to the people who mustn’t see you clearly, and you know - you get told by others - that they think you’re really sweet, and you feel a thrill of triumph: 'Yes, I'm good at history/biology/French, and I'm good at this, too.' It doesn’t ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.”

-The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

[quotesnotebook]

Claire Messud, "The Woman Upstairs"

[cahthreenah]

"Don't all women feel the same? The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury. We're all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish, and my worry now is that we're brainwashing them from the cradle, and in the end even the ones who are smart will be too damned foolish. What do I mean? I mean the second graders at Appleton Elementary, sometimes the first graders even, and by the time they get to my classroom, to the third grade, they're well and truly gone -- they're full of Lady Gaga and Katy Perry and French manicures and cute outfits and they care how their hair looks! In the third grade. They care more about their hair or their shoes than about galaxies or caterpillars or hieroglyphics. How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good? Even worse on your tombstone than "dutiful daughter" is "looked good"; everyone used to know that. But we're lost in a world of appearances now."

[fourwaybooks]

Claire Messud Mentions Victoria Redel's "Make Me Do Things" in "A Year in Reading: Claire Messud" for "The Millions"

"I read a lot of wonderful books this year, many of them new, and others simply new to me. I loved Amity Gaige’s Schroder, and Victoria Redel’s Make Me Do Things, Roxana Robinson’s Sparta – to name but a few." Read more about what Claire Messud has been reading this year. 

Make Me Do Things is available from Four Way Books.