Valerie Brett
2019 Q4 Book Pick: Cleopatra: A Life
For 2019 Q4, bxwbc is taking on a biography of a different kind: Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff (selected by me, Laila, of the...
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Valerie
Jun 19, 20192 min read
2019 Q3 Book Pick: The Days of Abandonment
Hi there, friends! I (Valerie) picked our 2019 Q3 (July, August, September) book: The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (Translated...
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Valerie Brett
May 22, 20191 min read
Circe Recapped on a Great Podcast
Whether or not you had the chance to read our 2019 Q1 book, Circe by Madeline Miller, you might want to check out this great podcast...
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Valerie Brett
Mar 15, 20191 min read
Intro: The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do is Thi Bui's debut graphic novel memoir. It tells the harrowing story of her family's immigration to the United...
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Valerie Brett
Dec 17, 20182 min read
Laila Brown's Thesis Studied BxW Book Club!
BxW Book Club member Laila Brown wrote her master's thesis about Library Science and book clubs, and one of the book clubs she studied...
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Valerie Brett
Dec 17, 20182 min read
Intro: Circe by Madeline Miller
Our Q1 book for 2019 is Circe by Madeline Miller. First things first: it looks like it would be pronounced "sirk" (like, circle) but it's...
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Valerie Brett
Nov 7, 20181 min read
Free Classic Feminist Text
Election Day felt like a good time to let everyone know that the feminist classic Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis is available as a...
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Valerie Brett
Nov 4, 20182 min read
Intro: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Our next pick is a sci-fi book, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. This was the author's debut novel. I'm looking...
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Valerie Brett
Oct 10, 20181 min read
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
I LOVED the title of this essay by Allison C. Meier and the intriguing accompanying image: The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized...
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Valerie Brett
Sep 13, 20181 min read
Intro: The Grip of It
Laila picked our creepy read for October (yay!): The Grip of It by Jac Jemc. Usually I post a bunch of reviews and interviews, etc. but I...
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Valerie Brett
Sep 8, 20181 min read
Intro: The Hate U Give
Hey hey! Our next pick is a second piggybacking off the LIS bookclub: we're reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas & we'll meet in the...
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Valerie Brett
Aug 22, 20182 min read
Our Thoughts re: Feminist Pedagogy
Our book club didn't read Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi, but some library school friends of mine and I...
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Valerie Brett
Aug 18, 20181 min read
Intro: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Heyyyyyy friends! Time for our next read, yay! Holiday has picked out Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. This was a PBS/NYTimes book...
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Valerie Brett
Aug 18, 20181 min read
Podcast Episode on a Past Read
Possibly my favorite podcast is Overdue, in which Andrew Cunningham and Craig Getting talk about books we should have read by now. Check...
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Valerie Brett
Aug 18, 20181 min read
SUMMER 2018 READS BY WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
OMG how is it like, the last week of summer?! It went by way too quickly! I found this awesome list I wanted to share before summer's...
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Valerie Brett
Jun 30, 20181 min read
Trans Books for July!
HEEYYYYYYYY FRIENDS! How's everyone's summer going? I feel like nothing ever slows down, even here in the islands :/ Summer expectation:...
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Valerie Brett
Jun 25, 20182 min read
Book Reviews: By & About Whom?
We touched on book reviews and gender at our last book club meeting so I wanted to share some links and articles that were relevant and...
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Valerie Brett
Jun 25, 20181 min read
BOOK EVENT THIS THURS!
This Thursday, June 28 at 7:30 PM, there's a book event at the Honolulu Museum of Art: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives...
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Valerie Brett
Jun 15, 20181 min read
Feminize Your Canon
Remember that post about how the canon is basically just a list of old white dudes? Well, exciting news: The Paris Review has a new...
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Valerie
Jun 10, 20181 min read
Intro: A Darker Shade of Magic
We are meeting to discuss this book on June 21, 2018 at 5 PM (potluck picnic). Message me if you need the location details. Apparently...
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