BOOKS BY WOMEN

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...

Hi there, friends! I (Valerie) picked our 2019 Q3 (July, August, September) book: The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (Translated...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I LOVED the title of this essay by Allison C. Meier and the intriguing accompanying image: The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized...

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...

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...

Our book club didn't read Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi, but some library school friends of mine and I...

Heyyyyyy friends! Time for our next read, yay! Holiday has picked out Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. This was a PBS/NYTimes book...

Possibly my favorite podcast is Overdue, in which Andrew Cunningham and Craig Getting talk about books we should have read by now. Check...

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...

HEEYYYYYYYY FRIENDS! How's everyone's summer going? I feel like nothing ever slows down, even here in the islands :/ Summer expectation:...

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...

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...

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...

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...