I had never read Frankenstein and I read it with my book club this month. It warranted the most intense and excited conversation in all of our 10 years together. Written by a 17 year old girl! Who was a mother! and the daughter of a famous feminist! who died when the author was born! in the earliest part of the 19th C! who was married to Shelley (who tried to re-write the book). Anyway, it is a book about parenting in all its intense messiness with even more intense moral dilemmas and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you read it before you had children, read it again!
I really loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Reading it made me realize I am comfortable with confrontation in all areas of my life except friendship. I don't have many conflicts in my friendships, and when I do, I tend to just let them blow over. I have way more conflicts in my professional life, but that's because I do not often form deep friendships with people I work with, so there is less at stake in working through conflict. I think mixing the two was a very interesting idea on Zevin's part.
I had never read Frankenstein and I read it with my book club this month. It warranted the most intense and excited conversation in all of our 10 years together. Written by a 17 year old girl! Who was a mother! and the daughter of a famous feminist! who died when the author was born! in the earliest part of the 19th C! who was married to Shelley (who tried to re-write the book). Anyway, it is a book about parenting in all its intense messiness with even more intense moral dilemmas and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you read it before you had children, read it again!
I really loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Reading it made me realize I am comfortable with confrontation in all areas of my life except friendship. I don't have many conflicts in my friendships, and when I do, I tend to just let them blow over. I have way more conflicts in my professional life, but that's because I do not often form deep friendships with people I work with, so there is less at stake in working through conflict. I think mixing the two was a very interesting idea on Zevin's part.
Tomorrow x3 was good but v similar to The Animators which was/is AMAzing! I can’t recommend it to enough people.