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libofalilwoman · 26 days

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painting on books i disliked

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libofalilwoman · 2 months

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violin and roses

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libofalilwoman · 5 months

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painting on my books in the name of annotations🤭🍓

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libofalilwoman · 6 months

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“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

Frida Kahlo, You Deserve a Lover

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libofalilwoman · 8 months

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august slowly slipping away

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libofalilwoman · 10 months

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my kinda hot girl summer

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libofalilwoman · 10 months

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"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"

L.M Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables".

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libofalilwoman · 10 months

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haven't been able to read anything for days. art has been the sole recourse to my solitude lately.

🌹miyazaki-san's chihiro & haku 🤍🐉

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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📖The Color purple by Alice Walker.

A classic bildungsroman.

Adorned with yearning for sweet freedom, a testament of raw desires of the feminine heart, filled with fierce female characters- The Color Purple is a bold and one of a kind feminist novel.

Celie, our main protagonist, writes letters to God describing the major and sometimes minor events taking place in her life. Through her very first letter we learn how her stepfather "Pa" sexually, physically and verbally abuses her.

The sole person she was loved by while growing up was her younger sister Nettie. But to their dismay, their relationship was tore down by Celie's abusive husband Mr______.

After getting separated from Nettie, it was Shug Avery, a fashionable and fiercely independent singer, who brought a new dawn to the perpetual moonless nights of Celie.

Shug is the woman who shows Celie the path to self love and self discovery.

The letters are very sensitive and demonstrates vivid and heart wrenching descriptions of abuse.

Celie's feelings find crystal clear expression in her letters and she acts as a spokesperson for every single woman who are made to feel imprisoned in the cage of their own gender. For every Black woman whose color is seen as a curse.

Sofia is the first female character in the book who boldly forbids the men around her from treating her like an object, as an unequal. Her actions ans words-SHE SLAYS.

When Harpo, her husband, beats her for the first time, she doesn't give in. She fearlessly asserts in front of Celie "But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me."

Nettie, oh I love her personality!

Educated unlike her sister, Nettie eagerly learns about Africa, about the "land for which our mothers and fathers cried-and lived and died-to see again."

After travelling to Africa as a Christian missionary, she leaves no stone unturned to help the people and educate them. To aid the women to live a dignified and equal life. Even after facing constant protests, tackling numerous hurdles, Nettie stays firm on her values and ideals.

The ending was so satisfying!

Celie conquers every battle that came her way.

Breaking her silence, she realised the might of her mortal wings with aid from Shug Avery, the woman she falls head over heels for.

She receives a love-so liberating, a home-she forever longed for, and freedom from every social and emotional barrier holding her back.

In the concluding letters to Nettie, Celie states how she feels "at peace with the world."

I'm so happy for my girls!

Not every book has the power to make the reader feel enraged and content at the same time. My soul needed this book. I'm so hopeful and content.

P.s: The book is written in southern accent, which kinda made it an easy and fast paced read.

✨6/5 stars✨

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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i have so many books on my tbr, idk where to start. i pick up a book, read one chapter or 10 pages and then dive into another book and the cycle continues. now that i have enough time to read (2 months summer vacation), i'm having so much trouble setting my mind on one book. i have been feeling terribly overwhelmed 🫠

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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i read the little prince as a kid but after turning 20 i've been feeling emotions and a burden i had never experienced before. because this is my first life and this is for the first time that i've turned 20 and i'm lost and clueless like everyone else. i have never been good at putting my thoughts into words....

this time when i read the little prince i just felt safe and protected from the chaos out there. this book is the reason i started painting again... the reason i started doing things to be happy and not to be perfect.

shall carry antoine exupery's words in my heart forgood "growing up is not the problem, forgetting is"

wish i could meet him and give him a hug. i adore the book, the author and my dear lil prince so much 🤍

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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made meself a bookmark and it turned out kinda cute 🥹💙☁️🌿

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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forever dear to me 🥺

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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any minor inconvenience in my life

~hastily opens amazon & orders a ✨bunch of books✨~

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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i am so glad i live in a world where spring, flowers and books exist

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”

― Alice Walker, The Color Purple.

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