A journey with books and other media
My Thoughts The Sleeper and the Spindle was a wonderful surprise and I’m so happy that I picked this book up. The story is a fairy tale reimagining of both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, taking place after Snow was saved and awaiting her wedding day to the prince. In this version of Snow White, …
My Thoughts One of the biggest decisions a woman can ever make in her life is the choice over whether or not they want to bear children. Whether or not a woman decides to have a child has social consequences: her marriage partner(s), her career and education options, what social circles she will likely to …
My Thoughts Slow Burner is a sneaky and fun little story, true to the title the story delivers on the steady burn despite the small page count. Liz finds that her husband Phil has been emotionally cheating on her again, but the feelings aren’t reciprocated. She finds a burner phone where he carries on conversations …
My Thoughts The Yellow Wallpaper is a classic short story about a woman suffering from postpartum depression. This story says more than most books in such a short amount of pages and it is a powerful cautionary tale of the dangers of postpartum depression and female oppression. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s …
My Thoughts Marian is an average college-educated woman who lives with a roommate in a decent apartment, works for a survey company, is moderately good looking, and has a handsome fiancé who is on his way to being a big shot lawyer. It sounds like life is going pretty well for Marian. Yet for some …
My Thoughts I’m going to say right off the bat that this book is definitely not for everyone. Many of the stories feature some very specific kinks that to most will no doubt be gut-wrenching. As a fair warning for those that haven’t read the book, that means things like necrophilia, pedophilia, incest, etc. There …