I thought it could be fun to start sharing my monthly reading experience of the book club book with you. The comments section is open for you to tell me how you’re finding the book.
Content Warning: Suicide, Abortion.
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It is incredible to think that Sylvia Plath wrote The Bell Jar in an era that pre-dated the Pill and Women’s Studies. Many of the feminist questions that Esther asks herself throughout the novel remain just as relevant today, making for a remarkably modern protagonist.
Content Warning: Depression. Suicide.
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If I Had Your Face is a touching love letter to Korea that will leave you wanting more. It’s also eye-opening and moving and funny without ever being heavy-handed in delivering cultural insights. Frances Cha joins an expanding group of contemporary Korean feminist authors who are using the medium of literature to examine misogyny and societal violence towards women. By providing a much-needed contribution to the global feminist conversation, these women are defying a culture that would prefer them to stay quiet.
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At The FBC Paris, we like to celebrate love in all of its glorious ways, which is why we came up with this alternative reading list for the 14th February. The aim is to continue diversifying the reading choices that we make and celebrate the wide scope of love that is actually out there.
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Here’s some of what we were reading in January.
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As the English half of The FBC Paris, I’m always looking out for book clubs - focusing on engaged literature - based in the U.K. I was delighted when I discovered Idle Readers, a Manchester-based book club, on Instagram as I had visited the café where they meet every month and loved it. Read on to discover more about how this wonderful book club came to life!
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Less well-off students in the U.K. are being failed by an overstretched education system. Going to university isn’t the only option but when we are sold the idea that a good degree will greatly benefit our future, it can seem like a legitimate route to our own success. Of course, that’s often not true. Here, writer and student Olivia Fletcher explains in 3 points why I think working-less students are more likely to drop out of university.
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Here’s what we read in September. Click on the image to find out more. Podcast episode coming soon!
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Here’s what we read over the summer.
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During her 2009 Ted Talk, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illustrated the danger of a single story that starts with childhood reading. In 2015, development agency Spread the Word published a report on the U.K. book industry, which laid bare just how resolutely white, middle-class and male it was, and how this spanned literary festivals, book prizes, the publishing industry and staff recruitments.
We therefore wanted to talk about some of the publishing houses / imprints that continue to do this necessary work in 2019.
(Thumbnail image: Photo by Susan Yin on Unsplash)
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As of July 2019, The FBC Paris has been sharing monthly reading lists on the Instagram account. We both read so much that it seemed logical to share these monthly lists with you! It was also a way to check that neither of us was reading too much of one type of feminist literature - it’s a tempting trap to succumb to sometimes.
Here’s our July pick!
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