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Geek Girl Authority
6 hours ago
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- Geek Girl Authority
Just Emilia Archives
Categories Select Category Games GGA Columns Movies Stuff We Like The Daily Bugle TV & Streaming Geek Girl Authority reviews Jennifer Oko's third novel, Just Emilia, a speculative novel about a woman facing her past and future.
New York Times
3 days ago
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- New York Times
Book Club: Read ‘Mrs. Dalloway,' by Virginia Woolf, with the Book Review
Welcome to the Book Review Book Club! Every month, we select a book to discuss with our readers. Last month, we read 'The Safekeep,' by Yael van der Wouden. (You can also go back and listen to our episodes on 'Playworld,' 'We Do Not Part' and 'Orbital.') It's a beloved opening line from a beloved book: 'Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' So begins Virginia Woolf's classic 1925 novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway.' The book tracks one day in the life of an English woman, Clarissa Dalloway, living in post-World War I London, as she prepares for, and then hosts, a party. That's pretty much it, as far as the plot goes. But within that single day, whole worlds unfold, as Woolf captures the expansiveness of human experience through Clarissa's roving thoughts. Over the course of just a few hours, we see her grapple with social pressures, love, family, the trauma of war and more. The result is a groundbreaking portrayal of consciousness and a poetic look at what it means to be alive. This year, the novel turns 100 years old. To celebrate the book's centennial, in June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss 'Mrs. Dalloway,' by Virginia Woolf. We'll be chatting about the book on the Book Review podcast that airs on June 27, and we'd love for you to join the conversation. Share your thoughts about the novel in the comments section of this article by June 19, and we may mention your observations in the episode. Here's some related reading to get you started. Our original 1925 review of 'Mrs. Dalloway': 'Mrs. Woolf is eminently among those who 'kindle and illuminate.' Mrs. Woolf has set free a new clarity of thought and rendered possible a more precise and more evocative agglutination of complicated ideas in simplicity of expression.' Read the full review here. This essay by the author Michael Cunningham (whose book 'The Hours' is a riff on 'Mrs. Dalloway') about Virginia Woolf's literary revolution: 'Woolf was among the first writers to understand that there are no insignificant lives, only inadequate ways of looking at them. In 'Mrs. Dalloway,' Woolf insists that a single, outwardly ordinary day in the life of a woman named Clarissa Dalloway, an outwardly rather ordinary person, contains just about everything one needs to know about human life, in more or less the way nearly every cell contains the entirety of an organism's DNA.' Read the full essay here. The writer Ben Libman's essay, 'Was 1925 Literary Modernism's Most Important Year?', in which he discusses Virginia Woolf and a host of other modernist writers: 'She is an inhabitant of minds. And the mind, in 'Mrs. Dalloway' and later, in a more extreme sense, in 'The Waves' (1931), is a kind of nebulous antenna tuning in and out of life's frequencies, ever enveloped in its luminous halo.' Read the full essay here. We can't wait to discuss the book with you. In the meantime, happy reading!
Geek Girl Authority
25-05-2025
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- Geek Girl Authority
Towel Day Archives
Categories Select Category Games GGA Columns Movies Stuff We Like The Daily Bugle TV & Streaming It's Towel Day, folks! Celebrate Douglas Adams, his genius, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by bringing/wearing a white towel with you everywhere you go today. Why? We explain it here.
South China Morning Post
22-05-2025
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- South China Morning Post
Indian activist author wins 2025 International Booker Prize with short story collection
Read more here: Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq won the 2025 International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp, in London on May 20, 2025. The 77-year-old is the first author of literature in the Kannada language – which is spoken predominantly in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka – to receive the prestigious literary award for translated fiction. Heart Lamp gathers 12 stories originally published between 1990 and 2023, portraying the challenges women and girls face in their everyday life in conservative Muslim communities of southern India.
The Independent
21-05-2025
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- The Independent
Watch the moment Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp wins Booker Prize
Audience members rejoiced as Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp was announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 on Tuesday, 20 May. The Indian author's award for her short story collection marks the first win for a title translated from Kannada, a major language spoken by an estimated 65 million people. Mushtaq, a lawyer and activist, will split the £50,000 prize money with Deepa Bhasthi, the book's translator. Heart Lamp centres on 12 short stories about the experiences of Muslim women living in southern India.
