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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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(e) Book – The Trouble with women




(e) Book –  The Trouble with women


Author:  Jacky Fleming 
Score: 7/10
Year:  2016
Publisher:  Andrews McMeel 
ISBN 9781449480677 / 978-1-4494-8067-7 
ISBN original book : 9781910931097 
Pages 128 * 

With humour, The trouble with women is an illustrated book, presenting small cartoon vignettes about women's erased history, why so few have been studied about, whether they had been artists, scientists etc. I didn't learn anything new, apart for a couple names, but it's a good, quick, under one hour of fast paced reading and laughing at the texts and images, full of humor and sarcasm. 


This all is about misogyny, how men viewed and then attempted to erase women, block their access to education, locking into a domestic life, and the like. But, since the topic would otherwise be heavy, these texts and cartoons make them much lighter, to the point of laughing at the absurdities that all these men had created in the erasure of women. 

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