RaeAnna + A Nerdy Lifestyle
Over the years, people, from hippies to electromagnetic hypersensitives to neo-Nazis and everything in between have gravitated to Green Banks, West Virginia for the National Quiet Zone, a seemingly idyllic space in the world where radio emitting technology is illegal and nature abounds. Stephen Kurczy an outspoken non-cell phone owner embraces the area and all it has to offer to tell a bigger story than he first imagined.
Three young women from drastically different backgrounds converge on Bletchley Park in 1940 and meet the consequences head on in the days leading up to Princess Elizabeth’s wedding in 1947.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin came to me the summer I most desperately needed to find a woman who understood. I was in the midst of a crisis: The crisis of being a woman. I was finding out its darkest meaning in the most horrific ways. Finding one person, however fictional, validated the tragedies I lived and the ones I had yet to experience.
Well... I'm only behind 48 book reviews. Instead of drowning myself and you in book reviews, I've decided to round them up. It makes my life much easier, and also won't bore you with nothing but book content for months on end because that is exactly what it would turn into.
On a technical level, I love this novel, but for some reason, it fell short. Berman tackles complicated and important issues women face every day with grace and insight.
Laura Lippman is a badass and a woman who loves herself, and that is a feminist revolution in and of itself.