https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c Around the world in women authors en-us 2020-03-19 11:21:27 UTC 2026-01-03 23:10:59 UTC hello@padlet.com julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577486197 Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John - semi autobiographical coming of age story]]> 2020-05-17 08:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577486197 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577489894 Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Slum Virgin - comic novel with larger-than-life characters that has serious points to make about poverty, violence and identity.]]> 2020-05-17 08:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577489894 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577499200 Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends and Normal People. Interesting for the portrayal of friendship/love of young people and the sexual and social politics of their lives but I found it hard to care enough about the characters.]]> 2020-05-17 09:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577499200 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577506168 Anne Griffin, When all is said and done - moving story told via 5 'toast' (chapters) Maurice Hannigan makes to important people in his life, threaded through with the repercussions of a boyhood act.]]> 2020-05-17 09:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577506168 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577511602 Alia Mamdouh, The Loved Ones - story of Suhalia, in a coma, told through her friends and family who gather at her bedside. Struggled to finish this.]]> 2020-05-17 09:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577511602 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577519214 Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Waking Lions - contemporary crime novel, about a surgeon who runs over an Eritrean immigrant and is blackmailed by the dead man's wife to run a 'pop up' surgery for other immigrants; about the lengths people will go to to protect themselves, privilege and power. I did not know about Eritrean immigration into Israel so was interesting to learn about that.]]> 2020-05-17 09:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577519214 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577527625 Elana Ferrante's Neapolitan series - loved these!]]> 2020-05-17 09:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577527625 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577528815 Iman Humaydan Younes, B as in Beirut - set  in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), this bleak and emotionally hard-going short novel connects the lives of four women living in the same apartment block in Beirut in the 1980s. ]]> 2020-05-17 09:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577528815 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577536767 Han Kang, The Vegetarian & Human Acts - both excellent books, if somewhat hard to read; the former tells of a woman who stops eating meat, then stops eating at all, told in three 'acts'; the latter is hard to read, but also riveting, about the atrocities carried out during the Gwangju uprising in the 1980s.

]]> 2020-05-17 09:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577536767 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577545291 Min Jin Lee, Pachinko - really enjoyed this historical saga spanning the twentieth century, following a family of Koreans who emigrate to Japan.
This sums it up well: 'A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan enduring and prospering through the 20th century' David Mitchell, Guardian.]]> 2020-05-17 09:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577545291 julieteve https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577553482 Carmen Laforet, Nada - 18 year old Andrea goes from the Canary Islands to live with a weird assortment of relatives In Barcelona (as did the author), whose lives have been (violently) disturbed by the recent civil war. Hope for a brighter future is suggested at the end when she is invited to live with the family of a friend from university.]]> 2020-05-17 09:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/julieteve/m8tshzz7di7c/wish/577553482