Mais je pense, toujours pour ce #vendredilecture, qu'il serait injuste de ne pas parler de The Book of Form and Emptiness de #ruthozeki , qui est un petit chef d'œuvre en terme d'écriture, de parler de la fonction du livre et des mots, et de la gestion de l'espace physique des émotions et événements traumatiques dans nos vies. Si vous parlez anglais, foncez découvrir cette #autrice japonaise, ouvrage récompensé du #womensprizeforfiction 2022 !

Good timing! The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff is a Kindle Daily Deal in the UK today. I'm looking forward to reading it as I haven't heard that much about it in discussions of the Women's Prize list yet, even though the premise is so interesting. A woman is believed to have killed her absent husband and finds that this reputation is useful...until other women start asking for her help

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I'm looking forward to reading Homesick by Jennifer Croft, the book that most obviously questions the difference between fiction and non-fiction as it was originally published as a memoir. I haven't heard great things about it, but I couldn't resist picking it up. It has an interesting origin story - possibly more interesting than the book itself will be? Time will tell

There are a lot of books drawn from personal experiences on the #womensprizeforfiction longlist this year. Memphis and Wandering Souls were also interesting to read together. Both authors have a family story that needed to be told, and chose to tell them in very different ways.

Personally, I loved Wandering Souls. I wish there had been 100 more pages of it as it gripped me in the final part.

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Reading books from a prize list is a weird thing, because you're drawing parallels between books that were never intended to be compared.

Having said that, reading I'm a Fan and Trespasses close together was really interesting to me. Different times, different contexts, but I felt like the women at the heart of the book not only did similar things but felt and expressed similar things

So far I've read Wandering Souls, I'm a Fan, Trespasses, Glory, and Children of Paradise. I've just started Memphis and Demon Copperhead.

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