Hi everyone, happy International Women's Day!
My name is Frede and today,
I'm going to be talking about some of my
favourite women writers as well as some of my favourite books that were written by women
but I haven't read more than that one book with them.
These are in no particular order,
I'm just gonna go with the books that I've got in front of me
and just talk about the books that I've read by these women, why I love their work, and
maybe also what is my favourite book by them that I've read.
Also all of these women that I'm going to talk about in the first place are
women, by whom I've read at least two books.
And I think if you've read two books and you really love both of them
you can judge an author enough to say that they're one of your favourites.
And the first one that I want to talk about is Han Kang.
I've read two books by her and that's The Vegetarian and Human Acts.
The only other book that has been translated into English is
The White Book, I believe it's called which I would love to read.
And I really love both of these books and I read both of them
actually kind of in one sitting and while I really enjoyed both of them,
I think my favourite was The Vegetarian. Basically what I love about Han Kang's work
is that I think she goes into the human psyche in a way that she really explores very dark
parts of the human mind and of the way that humans act.
Ah, Human Acts.
And I really enjoy reading that because it's terrible, like she talks about some very dark issues,
but I think she does it in a way that at least for me,
it really grips me. And just seeing this dark side of humanity is something that I really enjoy in literature when it's done well.
So this is where I really enjoy Hank Kang's work
And I think I prefer The Vegetarians simply because of the topic it's about because Human Acts was also really really well done.
But I think with The Vegetarian, the way she captures - at least that was my reading of it - the way she captures
eating disorders and the way that works kind of was just
so well done like I don't think I've ever seen anyone write about that that well.
And this isn't even supposed to be a book about an eating disorder, but that was my reading of it that the character has one.
But yeah, so both of these books were amazing and I really love Hang Kang as a writer.
The next author that I want to talk about Alice Walker.
Also read two books by her I've read The Color Purple and In Search of our Mother's Gardens.
So a novel and an essay collection, and I really, really enjoyed both of them.
I think the one that I prefer here was The Color Purple simply because I think most of the times
novels work better for me. But also in Search of our Mothers' Gardens, which I finished recently
and I'm going to talk about that in my upcoming recent reads video,
I really really loved this book.
I love the way she writes, a lot of the insights
her books give you. Both of them, The Color Purple and In Search of our Mother's Gardens.
And I really hope to read something else by her sometime soon.
I know that Hélène at booksbyleynes talked about a poetry collection by Alice Walker
and I think I might actually try to get my hands on some of her poetry, because there is a bit of poetry in
this one and then part of it
I really enjoyed. So that's something that I hope to explore more by Alice Walker.
The next author I want to talk about is Amélie Nothomb. She's from Belgium and she writes in French.
And I've read four of- four of her books actually. Three of them
I have here. I've read Antéchrista, which is I think called Antichrista in English,
I read Methaphysique des tubes, which is called The Character of Rain in English.
I also read Biographie de la faim, which is called The Life of Hunger in the English translation,
and then I also read another book by hers, which I got from the library
so I don't have a copy here, and it has not been translated into English. That book is called Journal d'hirondelle, which
kind of means the journal of the swallow, like the bird.
So yeah those four I've read by her and I have another one that's on my TBR shelf and she writes a lot,
I think she writes a book like every year. So if you want to get into her work, there's a lot
you can read. What I really enjoy about her writing is that it's super weird. It's strange, it's kind of creepy,
It doesn't- it's not supposed to feel realistic and still - at least for me
it really works in the sense that I want to continue reading
and I want to know what it's all about and kind of try to figure out what she's telling you with this-
with this book.
And I think the one that I preferred most of these that I read by her is Antéchrista.
It might be because I read that multiple times because I took French in my final exams of high school
so I had had French classes on kind of a higher level than some of my other classes, and
qe had to read
Antéchrista for that, and I read a couple of times before my exams well.
So I might just be a bit more familiar with that story. And I think in that book
it's interesting to read it kind of not side by side,
but also kind of being aware of Biographie de la Faim, or just generally being aware of Amélie Nothomb's past,
kind of a biography. Because she used to have an eating disorder
which she kind of sort of fictionalised in Biographie de la Faim.
But at least my reading of it when I read Antéchrista was also that was in some way an alleg-
like I kind of read it as an allegory of eating disorders.
It sounds weird that I like a book about eating disorders,
but I just think it was done really well. And like her books
are messed up. Like Antéchrista is messed up and the first time I read it I was like what the fuck is this?
But I think if you kind of open your mind to it and read it,
I think it's it's a lot of fun reading it because it's so strange.
So yeah, I really enjoy Amélie Nothomb and every now
and then I tried to read a book by her because I can try to,
you know, maintain my French level, which I'm not doing I've lost a lot of my French skills.
But I'm at least trying.
So I really like her and as I said a lot of her books have been translated in English,
so they are definitely also available if you can't speak French. The next author I have for this video is Toni Morrison.
I've also read two books by her,
I've read the Bluest Eye and I've read Sula and I think what I really like about Toni Morrison is
that, like her books are extremely difficult to read because they talk about some very heavy subject matter.
So these books are kind of thin,
they're both only around 200 pages long, but because they talk about such difficult topics
I think it takes you much longer to read it because it's so hard to read.
But that's kind of what I really appreciate about her work,
that she doesn't try to sugarcoat anything. I think both of these books
have really taught me a lot, especially
I think The Bluest Eye, which I think I would also say that I prefer of these two, although
it's I think with Toni Morrison it's very difficult to say which book you like best,
because they are not books you can
like in the sense of
that's so much fun to read because they're really not.
But I think especially with The Bluest Eye, when I read that one
I was only kind of
trying to figure out and to learn things about
the history of racism in America because that is obviously not something that's really taught here.
So that's something you need to learn on your own
And I think this one really gave me an insight that was at that point when I was reading and really really valuable.
I've also got Song of Solomon on my TBR shelf so I also- like I'm also gonna try and read that sometime soon.
But I really appreciate Tony Morrison's work.
The next author I want to talk about is Ali Smith.
I've also read two books by her, actually only one of them is a novel.
I've read Public Library which- Public Library and other stories, which is a short story collection,
and then I also read the accidental, which is a novel and I think I also preferred the accidental simply because
novels, I think they are not as much
hit or miss as short story collections. Because
obviously, there can be short stories in a collection that are great and then others not kind of like meh.
So I preferred the accidental.
And I've also got How to Be Both on my TBR shelf that I hope to get to sometime soon.
I think what I really like about Ali Smith's work, like the two things by her that I've read so far is that
she writes really weirdly, and she has
absurd stories and it's kind of her writing style that
gives these books a lot of value. Don't even really know how to
describe that, but I think everyone who's read anything by Ali Smith before knows that she writes in a really-
in a way that you don't come across very often. Kind of a stream of consciousness type of writing,
I don't know.
It just really clicked with me
and I really hope to get to some of her other books soon.
The next author that I have is Jeanette Winterson.
And I've also read two books by her,
which are Oranges are not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry.
What both of these books have and what I really adored and which
is why I really want to read more that she's written is
that she kind of mixes the story that she's kind of writing, like the plots sort of, with
almost fairytale-like elements that are just kind of thrown in and
it's not disruptive. It doesn't feel strange,
it really feels like it fits in there, and I really love that about it.
And I think of those although I love both of them, I would say I prefer
Oranges are not the Only Fruit.
But that might also be because this was possibly the first book that I've ever read in my life
which has a queer female character, in this sense i suppose a lesbian character,
Which is done well. Now when I was a teenager I didn't really have any books like that I think.
And then my mum got me one that was really bad, and I hated it, and then I think I always kind of steered clear of
books about LGBT people although, I mean those are books about me.
But I didn't want to read them because I had read that one that was like so bad
and I thought
Okay, apparently there are no good books about that and this is why this one just meant so much to me while I was reading it.
Because I was like wow there are actually books about
LGBT experiences that are good.
I think because of that this one is a bit closer to my heart simply because of some emotional connection
I have to it, but both of them are really really well-written and I hope to get to some more Jeanette Winterson soon.
But one more author that I really love, but I don't own any of her books which is quite frustrating
but that is Audre Lorde. I've read
quite a lot of things by her last year because I had to write a paper
and her work came in quite handy, and then and really enjoyed what I was reading, so I just thought hey
I'm just gonna continue.
I've read her
Collected poetry, like this a book was like I was like all of her poetry in there
I read that, which I think her poetry evolved a lot over the years
and I might prefer her earlier stuff simply because I understood it better.
But I would like to actually go back and try to reread some of it, also some of her later stuff.
I also read Sister Outsider which is an essay collection. Also kind of with speeches and interviews in there
Which talks about different issues relating to feminism in the sense of making it more intersectional and inclusive
And I really really appreciated reading that one although and did not get the point of
first one. Like the first essay in that
is a really long essay about her stay in Russia, and I just didn't get it
I think it was just kind of- she could have left that out. I didn't really get the point of that.
But all the others I think were really powerful, and I really enjoyed them
So I loved that one and then I also read her autobiography which is called
Zami - A New Spelling of My Name and just really really worked for me because some parts obviously were
just insights and into things that I'm extremely unfamiliar with, experiences that I will never have in my life.
But at the same time, kind of this familiarity with what she's talking about
because I think the way that she described these relationships
she had with other women just felt so close to home in some way.
And I really appreciated that. I talked about that in my wrap-up when I when I read it at that
I think if you're a bisexual woman and at least for me
I actually identified as gay for a lot for a lot of years,
I was really not interested in men at all and I still hate most men that are out there, so
kind of being in a relationship with a woman seems much more
sensical to me.
But I have a boyfriend now. We've been together for almost two years, so being in that situation and
other bisexual people might probably identify with that. It's very strange being in a relationship that is kind of read as
heterosexual for such a long time because obviously you're not straight,
you're still by it just meant so much to me to kind of read something written by a queer woman in that situation
I don't know,
Bisexual problems [laughs]
But yeah, so I love Audre Lorde so much. She was also just an amazing person
I actually watched a film, which I forgot to mention in my winter favourites I just realised,
Where she spent a couple of years in Berlin and kind of-
I wouldn't say started a movement, but really
helped getting different black German people together, especially women. And I just really appreciate her as a person
and I need to read everything else that she's written that I haven't come across so far
because I had just really adore her.
And now I have a couple of books by women
writers who I wouldn't consider to be my favourite writers,
but they have written some books that I really like.
I'm kind of hesitant to talk about the first of those because I'm
extremely annoyed and just really angry at this author right now, but that's the Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling.
Do we need to talk about JK Rowling, I don't think we need to. but this is a really good book.
It's kind of one of those small town books
where you have, you know, the story going on and you have a lot of different perspectives and very
different people and it just really worked for me.
I don't want to talk too much about JK Rowling,
but I really enjoyed this book.
One of these books by women authors which the book
I love but I wouldn't consider the writer to be one of my favourites.
It's A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
I would consider it to be a novel you can also consider it to be a book
of like interconnected short stories, I read it as a novel. You follow a couple of characters and the span of
20 or 30 years or something and you jump around in time
you jump forwards you jump backwards you jump around between the characters and
you just kind of follow their lives.
And I just I loved this like I had to read this for class and I started to read this way too late,
but I finished this in one day. So I really like nonlinear
kind of narrative styles and when there are different perspectives in one book.
I really like that and you have that in here, so I really enjoyed this book.
Unfortunately, the other book by Jennifer Egan that I read I really hated which was
The Invisible Circus I believe it's called,
I didn't like that at all.
But I really loved it this book.
Another book that I simply have not read anything else by the author
but I really enjoyed this book a Citizen by Claudia Rankine.
You might have heard of is probably it's been making its rounds on BookTube,
it's a poetry collection with I suppose rather unconventional poetry, but I really enjoy the way that this was written.
You've also got like
pictures in between I hope you can see that and I mean you can see the layout.
But I think this is so powerful like it talks about about race and everyday experiences of racism that black Americans
face and
some of these things really like punch you in the gut. And I think if you try to
educate yourself on something that is
distant from you because you will never experience it and in this case for me racism, of course it's important
to kind of look at theoretical concepts around that, but I think this one kind of because poetry is so personal
it's so emotional,
I think it really gives you a whole different insight.
And I really appreciated it for that.
The next book that I have I also just haven't read anything else by this author
and that's the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
I can't even say what it was about this book, it
just kind of really sucked me in. It was so creepy and so eerie,
I love this and I hope to read something else
by Margaret Atwood sometimes soon. If you have read anything else by her, do recommend me
what do you think I should read.
I've got another poetry collection and that is Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews.
This is kind of prose poetry so I suppose all of the poems are sort of connected,
they are also kind of longer,
you can see that most of them are rather long and like written and paragraphs. And it imagines kind of
an island where you have a matriarchal structure, and she kind of twists the
gender-based oppression that we have now and puts men into this position where they are
objectified. But I think it's done with a lot of wit because I think you can also do this and it's just like bland and
just doesn't really work, but this one
I really enjoyed and the language used and the images used are
really ,really well done.
The next book for this section is also one that I'm going to talk about more in my upcoming
recent reads video because I also finished it rather recently.
And that is Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
This is not the first book by hers that I've read, I also read Americana
which I really liked.
But I don't think I want to consider her one of my favourite authors because she's sad some transphobic shit and
not really apologised for it, so I'm not in for this.
Really, I'm not in for for that all, but I really enjoyed reading this book.
And I really like books that kind of go into history that is not taught in school.
This is about the Nigerian-Biafran war and that's not something that I was ever aware of before
I read this, so I really like books that do that that show me a part of history that I was not
aware of at all and this someone really did that. And then she also does it in a way, that's just emotionally compelling
and I really really loved this book and as I said I would be talking about this more in my upcoming
recent reads video.
The next book that I have is also- the author just I don't think has written anything else,
and that's Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
As I said earlier, I really like books with multiple perspectives.
And although you do have a linear narration here you have so many different perspectives
And a lot of questions that are left open at the end of one chapter
and kind of sort of cleared up and the following of this kind of generation. And
again, a history that is not taught where I'm from
through the eyes of fictional characters, but still in a way that it's researched so well that I
understand it better. And also just generally,
you know, those experiences- I've been saying this quite a lot in this video,
but this really-
those are really the kinds of books that I really like. Because you read a story and you meet a different
character and stuff, but you also learn a lot about the world. And so
this is also something that this book does and I loved it for this and whenever Yaa Gyasi puts out another book
I'm definitely going to buy that because I really loved this one.
Although the last two or three chapters could have been left out, they were cheesy but apart from that
I really like this book.
Another book by author that I just haven't read anything else by but I love the book is
Paula by Isabel Allende.
This is kind of a memoir, which Allende wrote while her daughter
called Paula was in a coma. She had kind of an illness that kind of put her into coma,
and let's just say it doesn't end well for her. And Isabel Allende talks about kind of her family history and her own
history. She talks about the kind of political coup that happened in in Chile in the, I
don't know I am really bad of like
dates but stuff, but I like her uncle was president of Chile, and then he was murdered and she talks about that and it's just
again, it's one of those books that teach me about history that I would have never know anything about otherwise.
It's also heartbreaking.
Her writing style it's beautiful, I would definitely love to pick up some of her novels.
But yeah, this is definitely one that I am that I would really recommend,
especially if you want- like this is nonfiction, if you want to see
history, some historical event for a very personal point of view in the form of nonfiction rather than fiction.
And then the last book I have on these piles
is a graphic novel which I adored. And that's The 100 Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg.
I think most of you probably heard of it. It's a
graphic novel with a female/female romance that kind of retells or reuses the concept of
101 nights and
tells different stories, has kind of fairy tales and
tells them with a bit of a twist. I love this. I just love it. The art is beautiful,
I love the way this told. I've seen a lot of people say that they didn't like the humour in it
and thought it was trying too hard. I loved the humour in it.
I also recently read another book by her, which I will be talking about in my upcoming recent reads video.
But I much prefer this one and that's kind of all I have to say for this,
But I just really loved it.
So this were some of my favourite women writers
As well as some books that were written by women who are not particularly my favourite writers,
but those books that I really enjoyed. Please tell me who your favourite
female writers are.
If there are any authors that I mentioned in this video who you really enjoy and there are books that you've read by them that
I haven't, please give me some recommendations because those that all authors kind of that
I want to read more from. To those of y'all who are women watching this, I hope that so far you've had and also
after this video you have an amazing women's day.
Please everyone keep your
vagina imagery to yourself, these are not the 70s
and it's just exclusive as fuck, so let's just not do that. There are other ways we can to define ourselves as woman than
genitals, let's not do that. Something that I think that I realised when I was going through the books that I've read and books that
I want to read and stuff is there I don't think I've really read
anything by a disabled woman. So Alice Walker has one blind
eye, and she got a scholarship for disabled people which was in college, although
I don't know if that's how she identifies. And then Audre Lord was legally blind when she was born
but I don't know if that's how she
identifies and I don't think I've ever read anything by a disabled woman.
I also don't think I've ever read anything by a transgender woman
So that's also something that I kind of want to try and do more. Also generally, expanding my reading in general
but especially when it comes to women to
non-Western countries because kind of everything I've talked here about here was from a European or an American and
that kind of needs to change. So do tell me about your favourite women writers and about your favourite books
they were written by women, anything. Just let's spread some love and positivity about
women today. I would love that. I'm always here for recommendations,
I've got a never-ending list of writers that I want to read and books that I want to read, but I'm okay with that.
That's great, there's always something else that I can check out.
Thank you for watching this video if you actually stuck around this long, and I will see you in my next one. Bye!
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