‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte

This review contains spoilers. Born Feminist This is a story well ahead of its time which is what I enjoyed the most about this book. As an orphaned child, Jane felt like an outcast her whole young life. Despite that, she grew into a strong and independent woman with principles of how she wants to...

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ by Walter Tevis

The Queen’s Gambit was published in 1983, one year before Tevis death. It took almost forty years for this title to become the most researched one, and all thanks to Netflix adaptation of the story that was released this year. Both, the novel and series are great. It is one of those books that you...

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo

This is a truly wonderful novel. Not surprisingly, Bernardine Evaristo was the winner of the Booker Prize 2019 and shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. The novel features 12 interconnected characters, mostly women, black and British. At first, I was put off by the way this book is written: short sentences and no...

‘The Silence of the Girls’ by Pat Barker

“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles...How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’”. The Trojan War ‘The silence of the girls’ is a retelling of ‘The Iliad’ by Homer that focus on stories of women and girls who were sucked into the Trojan...

‘Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’ by Caroline Criado Perez.

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth” Simone de Beauvoir. Man as Default Currently, there are 7.8 billion people in the world, and more than half of them are women. When you look...

‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood

‘The Testaments’ was the most anticipated book of 2019. Fans of the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ have waited thirty-five years to find out what has happened to Offred and The Republic of Gilead. Atwood delivered what she promised, but not everyone who has read it is satisfied with it. There is a lot of criticism for the...

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood

Feminist Nightmare Margaret Atwood has truly created a dystopian – feminist nightmare. The Republic of Gilead, where women no longer have any rights, except for one: to breed. Offred is a Handmaid and protagonist of the story. She lives in a house with the Commander and his wife where once in a month she must...

‘The Power’ by Naomi Alderman

“God is neither woman nor man but both these things. But now She has come to show us a new side to Her face, one we have ignored for too long”. ~ Naomi Alderman. Mysterious Power Alderman takes the reader to the world in which women have a mysterious power. The power that leaves every...

#1. Girl Fighter by Cyan Night – The Book about the Power

"Traumatic events at the earliest years of infancy and childhood are not lost but, like a child's footprints in wet cement, are often preserved lifelong. Time does not heal the wounds that occur in those earliest years; time conceals them. They are not lost; they are embodied." ~ Vincent J Felitti Main Character Although the...

‘Girl Fighter’ by Cyan Night

"Traumatic events at the earliest years of infancy and childhood are not lost but, like a child's footprints in wet cement, are often preserved lifelong. Time does not heal the wounds that occur in those earliest years; time conceals them. They are not lost; they are embodied." ~ Vincent J Felitti Main Character Although the...