Women's Month Reads
In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d share some books I’ve read recently written by women about women and, mostly, for women. When Women Were Birds: Fifty Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams A mix of prose and poetry Terry intertwines her life, conservation efforts, and her mother’s death into a story that reads like a well written journal entry. She combines what it means to be a woman, the earth we all live on and our connection with it and each other, interweaving the concepts much like the graceful flight of a bird. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A classic from 1929 when women were allowed even less than we are today and yet the concepts still hold true. Woolf talks about fiction and writing and how it relates to women in what feels like a long string of consciousness thought making this already short read go by even faster. There’s almost certainly an analysis on the past and the relationship fiction and poetry had with women,...