In this second episode of SHE Reads, the ladies—sans one—discuss women’s history month, and the literary women that have shaped and changed our worlds.
What are we reading this week:
- Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies
- Madeline Ashby’s Company Town
- Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Jeffrey Eugenides’ MIDDLESEX
- Katherena Vermette’s The Break
- Scaachi Koul’s One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Other books we mentioned:
- Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
- Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City
- Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest
- Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime
- Kate T. Parker’s Strong is the New Pretty
- Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey
- J.K. Rowling’s Very Good Lives
Feminist Awakening Characters:
- Anne Shirley
- L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables
- New CBC television series
- Kirsten Raymonde
- Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
- Princess Elizabeth
- Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess
- Antoinette Cosway
- Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
- Pecola Breedlove
- Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
- Ma
- Emma Donoghue’s Room
- Hermione Granger
- J.K. Rowling’s The Harry Potter Series
Female Authors:
- Jane Austen
- Hanya Yanagihara
- K. Rowling
- Zadie Smith
Book News:
- Feminist Bookstore in Montreal
- 70% rise in poetry sales
- Toronto Library Pilot Project
- Wattpad and Hachette Audiobooks
Looking to the Future:
- Jann Arden’s Memoir “Feeding My Mother”
- Miriam Toews
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