So, here's a tiny photo of the books I'm hoping to read for the Women Unbound challenge. As I was digging them out, I was looking at what else I had on hand and came up with quite a few alternates in case these don't appeal later in the challenge. What I love about these challenges is they give me an excuse to dig around in my book piles and pick up a new book to read. Or finally read a few of these, as the case may be.
A few more fiction titles:
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Water (my last unread Sarah Waters novel)
No Name, Wilkie Collins
The Awakening and Other Stories, Kate Chopin (I really want to reread this in any case)
Someone at a Distance, Dorothy Whipple
Up the Junction, Nell Dunn
The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood
Emma, Jane Austen
The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner
Ann Veronica, H.G. Wells
Sex Wars, Marge, Piercy
And a few more nonfiction titles:
A History of the Wife, Marilyn Yalom
The Body Project: An Intimate History of America's Girls, Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times , Elizabeth Wayland Barber (How many times has this book ended up on various lists of mine!).
Jane Austen: A Life, Claire Tomalin (or maybe her biography of Katherine Mansfield or Mary Wollstonecraft)
A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century, Sheila Rowbotham
Born for Liberty, Sara Evans - Another survey of women's history.
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Fleming (This is actually about the women who played essential roles in their lives).
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker, edited by Elaine Forman Crane - This is an abridgement of her actual diary, which consists of many volumes. I've meant to read it now for ages (usual story of course). It is "perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective."
Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life, the Diaries 1941-1943, and Letters from Westerbork, edited by Eva Hoffman - I've heard many good things about Etty's writing!
Women Travel: A Rough Guide Special, edited by Miranda Davies - This is the fourth installment. I've got two others and I love these books. They are made up of essays by women who have traveled far and wide. Each country/region includes an excellent list of recommended reading (fiction and nonfiction).
Sorry, I realize this is a pooterish post and a bit of a rehash of yesterday's, but the weather here has been so fine for November it's nearly a sin to stay inside sitting in front of a computer! Of course outside activities means lots of raking of leaves, and there are still more to fall. I've discovered just how little I use the muscles in my left hand and upper arms as all this raking has made me very sore. Saturday night I took a hot shower and laid in bed trying to read, but I only managed about four pages in two hours as I was aching too much. I know, seriously wimpy. Had the day meants lots of walking I could have hacked it easily. Alas, this is what happens when your job only requires you sit at a desk all day. I hope to get in some reading today. Dare I start one of the books in my photo? Or should I wait until I finish something first? Hmm.