Behind the scene: Getting your girl to recommend the book of the day. 'Oh, there's a squirrel!' 'Was that a leaf?' 'A crow!' 'You sure you didn't say treat?' 'I have no idea what I am doing, but I love you!' Life of a cynophile and bibliophile. #bookaholic #bookreview #behindthescenes #dogsofinstagram #igbooks #bookalicious #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #bookcover #booktography #bookalicious #daphnedumaurier #Frenchman'sCreek https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ZpNcuAL1G/?igshid=1x7ol02pb6vy3

Pepsi says Frenchman's Creek, by Daphne Du Maurier, is a must read. A swashbuckling tale of passionate romance and thrilling adventure, Frenchman's Creek is Du Maurier's boldest at its best. Lady St Columb, a headstrong woman, tires of the prim-and-poper-ness of the society and her life. She takes to her whims, stealing away from this stifling London society and to her Cornish estate, Navron, only to discover that it serves as a hiding cave for Jean-Benoit Aubéry, the pirate. What follows next is a whirlwind story of intrepid love and extravagant adventure. Unlike Du Maurier's more popular novels, Frenchman's Creek is not foreshadowed by a dark and brooding atmosphere; the action heaves as the La Mourte sets sail with its new crew member, surging with each escapade. If you take up this book during these quarantine times, you can't but long for those happy days of unbridled opportunities of travel and freedom. #bookreview #daphnedumaurier #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #igbooks #booktography #mustread #freedom #adventure #stayathome #Frenchman'screek #dogswithbooks #dogsofinstagram #labradorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B-YY4E3gqqD/?igshid=1aw2bt8vtnrma

Frenchman's Creek, by Daphne du Maurier and The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë. Stories of 2 women taking control of their lives. While one embarks on a thrilling, wild, and dangerous affair, the other resigns in obscurity and leverages her creative ardour to fend for herself. Reviews of each coming up soon. Stay tuned. #bookstagram #bookreview #daphnedumaurier #annebronte #bronte #brontë #duMaurierbooks #dogsofinstagram #igbooks #bookalicious #books #classics #womenwritings #womenempowerment #womenwtiters #feministliterature #victorian #victorianliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/B-QvB3ygY24/?igshid=1likz6jmdqgn4

Beloved. Toni Morrison. #wordporn #womenwritings #blackfeminists #blackhistorymonth #blackliterature #blackwriters #blacklivesmatter #blackstorieshavepower #tonimorrison #tonimorrisonquote #tonimorrisonquotes #beloved #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #igbooks #booktography #bookalicious #igbooks #readersclub #readingisfundamental #bookreadersclub #readersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ADJG4AXKJ/?igshid=gnu9atfgibf6

Beloved, Toni Morrison. The first time I read Beloved, I was too stunned to grapple the significance. I read it again, and again, and again... and honestly, right now, I don't know how many times I have read Beloved, but every time I read it, I feel the same emotional turmoil as the first time. Beloved is a slave narrative and it is not. Morrison's radical use of language defines the relation between memory and history. She subverts the myth of slavery as a tale of the past; her narrative strongly recollects the trauma and experiences of the slaves. 60 million and more, reads the first page of the novel. Virginia Woolf, in A Room of One's Own, had said, "... we think back through our mothers if we are women." But, Beloved is a story of a mother haunted by her past, her slavery, and by her daughter, Beloved. Beloved is a maternal narrative within the structure of feminist fiction. Beloved was inspired by an original incident of a Margaret Garner, a young woman who had escaped slavery and was arrested for killing her child. Morrison said, "she was certainly single-minded, .... she had the intellect, the ferocity, and the willingness to risk everything for what was to her the necessity of freedom." Sethe's endurance is terrifying. Such acute retelling of the struggles of women and, that too, of women in slavery to be free, and such acute retelling of the "murdered,... the one who lost everything and had no say in any of it. ", keeps the memory of the past alive and makes it pertinent even in the present day. Morrison said, "To render enslavement as a personal experience, language must get out of the way," and this is what she does in Beloved. The story doesn't give you any introduction but takes you right to the heart of the setting and the mood is set for a brilliant story-telling. Beloved is fantastic, beautiful, and terrific. Remember to breathe while you read Beloved. :) #bookreview #beloved #tonimorrison #supernatural #feministliterature #blackfeminists #womenwriters #blackhistorymonth #blacklivesmatter #bookstagram #instabooks #bookaholic #booksoninsta #igbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B99nQJnAIAc/?igshid=187idzzcvbo1j

"A flower blossoms for its own joy." The photo may capture an anthophile's delight but Oscar Wilde's simple words strike a deeper chord, reminding us to love ourselves a little more, to live for ourselves a little more, to care for ourselves, even at the risk of seeming selfish, because, at the end of the day, no one can feel us the way we do and no one can live our life for us... #quotestagram #quoteoftheday #oscarwilde #oscarwildequotes #inspirations #inspiringquotes #motivationalsayings #booktography #bookalicious #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #igbooks #igbookshop #mood https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zdsdvAmp1/?igshid=98rpu71gjq6d

Finished reading Tampa, by Alissa Nutting, rang up a friend to talk about it, penned down my take on the book, took up a Beauvoir novel, and yet, can't get over this singular piece of awesomeness that explores the deepest recesses of a woman's consciousness with so much veracity and aplomb as Irvine Weish says, "... a provocative look at a taboo subject." Here's a closer look at the front and back covers of the book, tell me if the design itself doesn't force you to include this book in your #TBR list. 🤷‍♀️ #Tampa #alissanutting #bookcover #coverdesign #booktography #obsessed #provocative #bookstagram #booklover #harpercollins #igbooks #bookish #booksbooksbooks #booklover #readersclub #readingbooks #readingbooks #readingisfundamental https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wtEvhAmgs/?igshid=rqxazkosckh1

Unsettling. For the matter it handles and the impact it renders. Tampa, Alissa Nutting's debut novel, arrives with suggestive comparisons with Lolita. Based on a 2005 real incident of a 24-year old school teacher who is arrested for her affair with her 14-year old student but avoids jailterm because her attorney argues that she is too pretty for prison, Tampa, too, explores the meticulousness with which Celeste Price, a 26-year old English teacher of middle school, studies her students to pick her next conquest. But Celeste is not Humbert. Celeste is gorgeous, married to a husband she loathes, and untiringly occupied with carnal fantasies for 14-year old boys. She is remorseless, cruel, and her pedophilic obsession is dangerous. The novel constantly nudges your moral consciousness and yet the book is unputdownable. The action remains well-paced, although the end seems slightly abrupt and does not play out to expectation. The conflict in readers' perception of the book lay in the fact that while Lolita was a difficult read (honestly, I tried reading it twice and could not proceed beyond page 25),Tampa is not. You enjoy the book, may be because only you are in Celeste's mind and know how much of a consensual act all of her encounters with the boys are. My aim in 2020, now, is to finally read Lolita. #Tampa #alissanutting #faberandfaber #harpercollins #pedophile #sex #erotica #literature #debutnovel #Celeste #Lolita #VladimirNabokov #mustread https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wRqQsAlPW/?igshid=h037dqci3f6i

Maya Angelou ❤ Mid-week motivation #quotestoliveby #quotestagram #quoteoftheday #feminists #feministliterature #mayaangelou #mayaangelouquotes #mayaangelouquote #inspirations #inspirationalquotes #saas #bookstagram #instabooks #bookaholic #booksoninsta #igbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B9qCXYnpEVw/?igshid=16zm5r7xneymd

For the love of colors! #flowersofinstagram #colorsofinstagram #flowers #igflowers #flowerstagram #spring #springsummer https://www.instagram.com/p/B9oFlvxJ6nG/?igshid=1o8i4uhov81a0

Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953) for the novella, Old Man and the Sea. Even, despite having authored some of the greatest works of 20th century American Literature, Hemingway was specifically mentioned for this novella, Old Man and the Sea, while being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954). The last of his creative genius, Old Man and the Sea is actually founded on Hemingway's fascination with the conflict between man and nature and the essential tendency of man to prove his worth despite all hardships. Keeping to his simple prose-writing style, Hemingway has used a characteristic economy of language to explore this conflict; the narrative takes you along in the old man's struggle with the giant marlin, unreeling the chord now and pulling again, narrating your struggles and your ability to endure all difficulties. You move with the ebb and flow of the text, you smell the salty sea, the blood; you feel the exalted happiness, the frustration, the pride, the loneliness, the desperation, the fear. Characteristic to Hemmingway's iceberg theory of writing, Old Man and the Sea is, at once, everyone's story and is not. #QOTD: What's your take on the Old Man and the Sea? #bookreview #hemingway #oldmanandthesea #ernesthemingway #Pulitzer #nobelprize #novel #story #struggles #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #igbooks #bookish #booktography #bookalicious https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nw6_-JKYB/?igshid=35sflfvh0crt

Quiz on Brontë sisters!💃 Check story. #brontesisters #quiztime #quizonbrontesisters #annebronte #charlottebronte #charlottebrontë #emilybronte #janeeyre #wutheringheights #professor #shirley #agnesgrey #villette https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ecthIlNfr/?igshid=zgn4bl6lgug3

For the first time ever I picked up a Marquez, I was merely intrigued by the title; honestly, I didn't know about this man. One Hundred Years of Solitude was the first one I read and, it doesn't need a second guess, I was back to the library, within 2 days, to check out the next available book by Marquez. Incidentally, Marquez also happens to be first writer to have introduced me to magic realism. 🤷‍♀️ Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of my Melancholy Whores, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, I have been able to read only these 4. Interestingly, my guy, too, happens to be a Marquez fan. 😉 #quoteoftheday #gabrielgarciamarquez #loveinthetimeofcholera #100yearsofsolitude #happybirthday #marquez #bookstagram #instabooks #bookaholic #booksoninsta #igbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Zc1-cl25U/?igshid=7zzddiyi8512

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When it's not the season for storms yet and the skies dress up in that menacing shade of grey, you can't but pick up a novel suited to the mood. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins belongs to the genre of mystery novel and draws inspiration for the plot from an actual 18th-century incident of abduction and unlawful imprisonment. No doubt, this novel is slated as the first sensational novel. #thewomaninwhite #wilkiecollins #mysterynovel #gothic #sensational #sensationalnovel #bookstagram #booktography #bookalicious #readingbooks #booksofinstagram #igbooks #igbookshop #mood #romance #stormandbooks #goodreadswithaview #bookaholic #booklove https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UO52NJOGH/?igshid=mey4dcgkli0i

Another brilliantly beautiful and lucid rendition of a simple truth, by Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada. Read the collection if you haven't already. @penguinrandomhouse #blackstorieshavepower #ijeomaumebinyuo #feministliterature #blackfeminists #nigerianwriters #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #quotestagram #quoteoftheday #quotes #lovequotes #truth #igbooks #loveforreading #poetry #poems #womenwriters #select #bookaholic #bookgram https://www.instagram.com/p/B9TBj6xFWSh/?igshid=c8h6tp72a05f

Questions for Ada, by Ijeoma Umebinyuo. A must read! Umebinyuo's Questions for Ada is an unapologetic rendition of a woman's pain and passion. She spills out the truth unabashedly; this raw candour of the verse speaks to you with an intimacy that no author, poet, or writer of any genre has been able to achieve. P.S. You will be bombarded with quotes from Questions for Ada now. @penguinrandomhouse #blackstorieshavepower #select #fangirl #quotestagram #quoteoftheday #quotes #quotestoliveby #truewords #Questionsforada #ijeomaumebinyuo #ijeoma #umebinyuo #bookstagram #instabooks #bookaholic #booksoninsta #igbooks #nigerianliterature #blackwomen #womenwritings #feministliterature #blackfeminists #feminists #blackliterature #bookaholic https://www.instagram.com/p/B9QQ0xdJPoM/?igshid=l1tz9xj61e7s