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Sto caricando le informazioni... Notes to Self: Essays (2018)di Emilie Pine
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I was recommended this book by my manager when it came out & I have to say it is not an easy read but it is extraordinary! In a series of essays Pine is honest and brutal in equal measures. She reaches deep inside herself and pulls out all the ugly, and heart-breaking parts of being a woman in today's society and lays it bare for us all to see, and no doubt for some - to judge. She talks about events that we do not openly discuss. About being the child of an addict, about the minutiae of fertility and the loss surrounding it, the grief of stillbirth. She talks about sexual violence - and the forms we don't recognise when they happens. She talks about periods and blood, about women's place and value in society, about the pressure of academic life and dealing with depression. But what is most startling about this book is even during the most brutal events there is a sense of hope... a sense of survival. I am reminded of a line that stood out to me... "writing is a way of making sense of the world, a way of processing – of possessing – thought and emotion, a way of making something worthwhile out of pain." In all this Pine takes the pain of her life – of all our lives – and makes it worthwhile. A quick read. Recommended to all women and to any man that wants to educate himself about the HELL women go through. Any man who wants to understand why 99% of the compliments they think they're giving a woman is not actually a compliment. Any man who doesn't understand that "Don't" and "Stop" mean NO. Any man who doesn't understand what it means when a woman says she has been intimidated into silence. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life--those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. This is the story of one woman, and of all women. Devastating, poignant, and wise--and joyful against the odds--Notes to Self is an unforgettable exploration of what it feels like to be alive, and a daring act of rebellion against a society that is more comfortable with women's silence"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Ein radikal aufrichtiges Debüt. Der Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Irland: Emilie Pine spricht wie niemand sonst darüber, was es heisst, im 21. Jahrhundert eine Frau zu sein. Es ist das Buch einer ganzen Generation. Ein Buch über Geburt und Tod, sexuelle Gewalt und Gewalt gegen sich selbst, weiblichen Schmerz, Trauer und Infertilität. Es ist ein Buch über den alkoholkranken Vater, über Tabus des weiblichen Körpers. Und es ist trotz allem ein Buch über Freude, Befriedigung und Glück - unbändig, mutig, und absolut aussergewöhnlich erzählt. (