Posts tagged with "readers"



THE FUTURE IS FEMALE · 11. December 2020
Illustration: painting Amaryllis and Henrietta by Vanessa Bell, 1940
For thousands of years, men and women have been reading books mostly (mostly, mostly) written by men. What does it matter? you might ask. Ancient Greek philosophy, religious texts, love or war novels, science fiction, true or fictional contemporary stories are not all misogynous, are they? No, indeed, they are not... not all of them. But all those thoughts, those true or fictitious stories that are thought, imagined, written by men, would have been thought, imagined and written in a totally...
Why? · 18. June 2019
Joy in creation is the more or less long work we do, to carry out a project close to our heart, such as: * to raise our children to become responsible and happy adults ― long work! * to spend few hours in the kitchen to offer happiness to our guests around the table, * to read a lot of books for the bibliography of my novels; to write, throw away, cut, rewrite, until the word THE END ― which leaves me both happy and unhappy! (Why ? That’s another story! … I’ll tell you if you ask me...