#girl woman other

[quotespile]

[She] experienced commitment to one person as imprisonment, she hadn't left home for a life of freedom and adventure to end up chained to another person's desires...

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

[litsnaps]

[words-and-coffee]

Be a person with knowledge not just opinions

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

[saltwaterandstars]

JOMP BPC - 11th January - Award Winning

Co-winner of the Booker Prize in 2019 with The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

[youritalianbookpal]

Top 10 reads of 2024

I haven't been as active here in 2024 as in other years, but I still feel like sharing my top 10 fo the year. No idea how, but I managed to read 52 books overall - the goal was 49 and I honestly thought I wouldn't reach it... Let's see which books were the best of the bunch to me :)

Kallocain by Karin Boye

Extremely beautiful dystopian novel. I feel like this is what people think 1984 is when they get disappointed by it (I'm saying this as a compliment). It's the story of a scientist who lives under an oppressive totalitarian state, and discovers a potent truth serum. 10/10, would recommend to everyone ever to read this.

2. Summer by Ali Smith

Don't ask me why I began reading the seasonal quartet from the last book, but so far this is the only one I read and... I loved it. It made me emotional in all the best ways. This has raised the stakes for the other three books of the series (I plan on reading Autumn in 2025 but why knows, might take me another two or three business years to actually do it).

3. All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir

I think I should tell you that I picked up this book by chance from my mom's bookcase - as usual she knew she read it and remembered nothing of it. This novel felt like a slap in the face, and I don't understand how people can't always remember it after having read it. This is the story of an immortal man who regrets his immortality, and somehow it's an in-dept analysis of humankind's mortality and... I don't know how else to describe it if not the aforementioned slap in the face. Absolutely majestic.

4. The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappé

This book should be mandatory in every school but alas. I don't think it's a good recommentation for people who never approached the subject of the history of Palestine, but I think it could still prove extremely useful to people who are interested in the topic - and let's face it, we all should be.

5. Act your age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Took me ages to finally finish the Brown sisters series, and I loved this third instalment just so much. I think Eve and Jacob are a great exaple of well written enemies to lovers - or whatever "sorry I accidentally run you over with my car, let me help you run your B&B" is supposed to be. It's my favorite trope and it better be done like this more often.

6. Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I think I'll remember this novel for the wrong reason - it's so far the only book by Moreno-Garcia I didn't give 5 stars (I gave it a 4.75 so I should really just shut up). But I really enjoyed it, as it's written well, the characters are compelling, and it takes place in a moment in the history of Mexico I didn't know much about, which made it a good reason to do further research, something I always like. And, may I say? It has one of my favorite endings in all the Moreno-Garcia books.

7. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine ed. Sai Englert, Rosie Warren, Michal Schatz

Extremely upset I didn't have access to this while I was writing my Master's thesis (don't care if it has been published 2 years after my graduation ok). Please read this if you can.

8. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

First book I read completely in 2024 and it was GREAT. I spent the year looking for Bloodmaker at my usual bookshop, but I will end up having to order it on their website. I need to know how the story goes, ok? This book wins the Best Plot Twist of the Year award to me (which means it's the best written, the one with the best build up, and not done for shock value).

9. Bite by Bite: Nourishment and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

World of Wonders, which I read a couple of years ago, is still one of my favorite books. This is basically the food version of it, so how could I not love this one too? it's so caring, so loving, so beautifully written: I can't ask anything else from a book.

10. Our wives under the sea by Julia Armfield

I'm not good with books that scare me. This scared me just enough to be able to finish it and still be so full of dread I could cry. If you're not a whimp like me you will probably think this is very tame, but to me the not knowing will always be more upsetting than the knowing.

Honorable mentions

I decided to put in the top 10 only books I read for the first time last year, but it was also a year I allowed myself some re-reads, which I think still deserve to be mentioned. Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo was maybe even better than I remember it, and I remember loving it dearly on the first read as well. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which I listened to as audiobooks but read ages ago, cemented themselves as some of my favorite classics.

[isaacbookclub]

This Place Is Still Beautiful by Xixi Tian

Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Princess Ever After by Connie Glynn

The Prom by Saundra Mitchell

Season 2 Episode 3

[cinematic-literature]

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) by Matthew Lopez

Book title

One Last Stop (2021) by Casey McQuiston

Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo

(Worse-quality screenshot but both books are visible here)

[books-in-media]

Daisy Edgar-Jones, (Instagram, June 03, 2020)

—Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019)

[smokefalls]

ageing is nothing to be ashamed of especially when the entire human race is in it together although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older because it’s such a privilege to not die prematurely

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

[veryslowreader]

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Red, White & Royal Blue

[quotespile]

I’m not a victim, don’t ever treat me like a victim, my mother didn’t raise me to be a victim.

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

[inthegoodbooks]

reading books I should have read by now - end of the year tbr

I am a collector books. I think we all are. I am a firm believer in the fact that collecting books and reading books are two separate hobbies; they support one another, but they can exist in isolation.

Over the years, I have collected so many books. Wonderful books, books that are raved about and praised beyond words. At the start of 2024, I made a real commitment to reading the books I already own and refrain from buying too many across the year that never end up being read. I have done quite well with this: so far this year, 22 out of the 38 books I have read are books I already own. Bear in mind that within the other 16 are audiobooks included in my audible subscription and library catalogue and physical books borrowed from the library too.

So all in all? Not bad.

For the end of the year though, I have decided to pick five books that are renowned for being excellent. Maybe they’ve won literary prizes (such as the Booker for Girl, Woman, Other and Shuggie Bain; the Pulitzer for The Goldfinch; the Glass Bell Award for Heart’s Invisible Furies; and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous was also shortlisted for a number of prizes too.) Of course, I’m not just reading these because they’ve been recognised by prizes though; all of these books have been recommended to me by friends or bookish content creators whose opinions I really value.

My plan is to read one a month (ish), starting with Shuggie Bain for August. I am nearly finished and boy oh boy, am I glad I finally got around to picking this one up. Such a wonderful novel. Anyway, more about that in the review.

I can’t wait to dive into the rest of them very soon.

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Currently listening to this.

[homophyte]

okay this has been bugging me for a few days so im outsourcing to tumblr to see if anyone here has talked about it/is talking about it even though the book is a few years old. is there a consensus on morgan from bernardine evaristo’s girl woman other? ive been reading it for a class and it just screamed borderline transphobic character written by a well meaning cis author who has “concerns”. idk is there some 5d chess im missing? am i reading it too literally? whats the deal with it

[bloodmaarked]

➳ monthly book round-up: september

read:

middlegame, seanan mcguire. 5*. read 27 august 2023 – 06 september 2023.

conversations on love, natasha lunn. 4*. read 31 august 2023 – 13 september 2023.

girl, woman, other, bernardine evaristo. 1*. read 16 september 2023 – 22 september 2023 [DNF].

the case of the disappearing duchess, nancy springer. 5*. read 19 september 2023 - 22 september 2023.

currently reading:

seasonal fears, seanan mcguire. started 08 september 2023.

noughts & crosses, malorie blackman. started 23 september 2023.