by Sophie Wilson | Aug 6, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
I’ve been fascinated with Anais Nin for a long time. She published seven volumes of diaries (from 1931 – 1974), the most famous part being published as ‘Henry and June’, which explores her romantic relationships both with writer Henry Miller and his enigmatic wife...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Review
Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad is a harrowing memoir. It is a painful read, but an important one nonetheless. It serves as a reminder that the effects of war are felt not only on the male dominated battlefield, but also in the surrounding...
by Sophie Wilson | Jul 25, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
‘But this is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s, and the poet will look upon their pain – the pain of women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men – and he will tell it or he will tell...
by Sophie Wilson | Jul 15, 2020 | Book Review
This raw and honest story follows the life of Queenie Jenkins, a young black woman of Caribbean descent living in London. After her boyfriend of three years asks that they take a break, Queenie is left questioning her life and where it’s heading. She moves down a path...
by Sophie Wilson | Jul 1, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
Shraya is a Canadian musician, artist and writer. She came out as a trans woman in 2016, and before this identified as a queer man. In I’m Afraid of Men she explores issues surrounding masculinity: how it has been enforced upon her, and how her own subconscious bias...
by Sophie Wilson | Jul 1, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
A true story about the sex lives of three American women, based on a decade of reporting and research, Three Women is a novel about three heart-breaking real women and their experiences with desire. Or rather, trauma. There’s Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school...
