The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. It’s non-fiction, and so very enraging. My favourite non-fiction. I’ll add The Vegetarian and My Body and other Parties to my list, for sure.
Not That Bad by Roxane Gay is fabulous, it’s also a collection of stories written from different womens perspectives as well as LGBT+ perspective and I believe has an undertone of rage and sadness. I haven’t finished it since it is quite heavy, but it was free on iBooks for a time!
The Natural Way Of Things by Charlotte Wood I think would fit this category of female rage. I'm adding The vegetarian, Her body and other parties and Lucy to my TBR list. Thanks for the thorough video reviews.
When you first talked about female rage, the first two books that came to mind were The Power by Naomi Alderman and Circe by Madeline Miller. To me, both of these books deal with a sort of a reclaiming of power (in the first one quite literally), but also with reconstructing the narrative that surrounds the protagonists in both books and reclaiming power that way
Lovely review Elizabeth! You touched on this at the end when you spoke on how women aren’t “supposed to” experience or show rage. But regarding the few books you thought didn’t really touch on rage-I wonder if female rage isn’t literally about anger, but rather women’s emotional responses to operating under the limits of being women in patriarchal societies. Women are socialized to internalize emotion, so maybe rage shows up as depression, sadness, irritability, need for control etc, rather than the traditional (read: masculine) manifestation of rage as anger. Maybe these other emotions can count as rage within the confines of a society that expects us not to show anger.
I love how insightful your book content is, feels like having a good conversation or debate with a friend! (Also your reading posture is so elegant, I’m either curled over my book like a 🥐 or find myself slowly melting off my chair/bed 😅)
omg I absolutely recommend reading Iron Widow by Xieran Jay Zhao (if you haven't already). It's a YA sci-fi novel inspired by Chinese history (the main character is named after Wu Zetian, one of the only (if not THE only) empress China ever had and she is purely driven by female rage).
I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t like My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I DNFed it. I plan to read the other books too. I had not heard of The Vegetarian or Lucy until this video. You definitely made me want to pick them up!
Not sure if it counts as female rage specifically, but Sword of Kaigen is a great one that shows the dedication and care from a mother/wife's perspective (kind of) It's one of my favorites that I read last year.
THANK YOU for your comments, especially on the Moshfegh. I almost had a war with my literary friends over it, because they insisted the story and character was a brilliant invention by a brilliant writer, and I maintained that it was insipid, half-hearted, insulting and a shallow take on some very real problems. It certainly made me rage, especially on the last page! I also adored The Vegetarian and Her Body and Other Parties (which I thought was PHENOMENAL), so since you’ve recommended Lucy I’m definitely going to pick it up. My rage recommendation is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno, a delightfully creepy, vivid, suspenseful novel with some very memorable characters. 💥 (Edited to add: I’ve only seen Chewie from above, so it was great to see him cuddling with you in the reading chair!)
The Vegetarian was already on my tbr. I've always found it sad (nobody get offended) that women so often introduce themselves as " I'm NAME, I'm a mom. " ... 🤦🏼♀️. That says little to nothing about a female as a human! Words like mom, daughter, wife, employee, etc, are words that women use to describe themselves when the reality is that the words mean nothing about a person.
I always come out of these videos with even more books for my TBR! My wallet is already crying, but I don't care. Your reviews are always eloquent and have just enough info to make me curious and excited about the book. I also just want to say you look as stunning as always and for literally half of the video I was just thinking 'man she has good fashion sense. look at that HAIR.' Seeing Chewy and Yoda, too, made my day and I wish my pets stayed long enough for me to read books with them. Wonderful video as usual!
i really liked my year of rest and relaxation. im kinda new to books so i dont have a lot of ground to stand on when it comes to reviews but i really liked the mc. for me, tha caracter really shows how depression can turn someone complitely numb and a how a person in the illnes cant really see how theyre treating others cause theyre always struggling with their own issues. personally i went through a depression phase a few years ago and i had terrible relationships with a lot of people around me because i was so selfish but that wasnt something i could reflect upon until now when im not in the illnes anymore.
Thanks for the insight on My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I've been meaning to pick it up for a while, but now I don't have to feel bad for how long it's been on my TBR haha. (Also "MYORAR!" sounds like a cry of rage in itself - maybe the perfect expression for how it feels to read it?)
I love all your book reviews, please don’t stop. I have put HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES & LUCY on my tbr. Hoping I can get one or both today. Happy August birthday 🎉 you are in awesome company. I’m also an August birthday.
Great video, Elizabeth. I agree with you about “My Year of rest and relaxation”. Cannot understand the great reviews. For me it was boring and very monotonous and repetitive…🤦🏻♀️ As for the other books you read, with the exception of “A certain hunger” I have added them to my reading list. 🙏🏻😚
I haven't read these books but when you say the lead characters are more numb than angry, it makes me wonder if they're so angry they're numb... for me when I'm numb that's usually why, because my feelings are so intense that they need to be shut down so i become numb...but when i think of rage i think of fire thats allow to burn... im definitely gonna read "A certain Hunger" and the last 2 but that one sounds up my alley.
I am so glad you read Her Body and Other Parties. It is so so incredible. I actually just got the urge to reread the SUV story yesterday. I might do that when I get off of work. Virgin with a Memory is one of my favorite books from this year and it is a rape/revenge story. Kinda. It is so amazing and very meta.
Sooo I've been recently reading ALOT of the books u've mentions in your videos and I felt exactly what you felt about those books. I find every book choice of yours to be a good book, and it actually is. Im going to try reading one of the books you've mentioned in this video and hopefully I'll like them!! Salutations to people around the world
If you want a nonfiction take on female rage you have to read Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister! It is so so good and totally opened my mind to how impactful rage can be especially from women and how it could lead to important change in the world!
I don't have TikTok and I've not heard of female rage books before. Since I'm female I have had rage but that's about all I know about it 🤣🤣. I think of the 5 books you talked about I would try Her Body and other parties because the other ones sound a bit too scary ( or too boring). As a sidenote: you looked lovely in your video, I like how you curl you hair, the front pieces of it (I think they call those bangs?). It looks very nice. 😊
I read The Vegetarian a few days ago and honestly it's still settling down on me. It was a shocking story in the moment, but I'm finding myself getting more and more horrified with the violence in it as the days go by. But yes, I wouldn't really say it's about female rage, at least for the character. It does awakens my female rage though.
loooved this video so much i'm so glad it introduced me to your channel, your taste is MAGNIFICENT i must say. and your cats!!! adorable. i love carmen maria machado's work so dearly, and if you haven't read her other book in the dream house you absolutely must. i've been lucky enough to hear machado speak at two events and she's just as funny, wonderful and eloquent as you'd think. definitely some of my most starstruck moments i've lived
Aw thank you! Welcome 🥰 I have a copy of In The Dream House on my bookshelf! I hope to get around to it soon. And that sounds amazing! I feel like she’d be so fascinating to listen to ❤️
I recommend the Manningtree Witches for this prompt! The main character doesn't have that much rage but I think her mum (a very interesting character) does. Plus, it's definitely an insight into misogyny and how women couldn't win either way when it came to the witch trials of the 1600s. Regarding Her Body and Other Parties, would anyone (either Elizabeth or anyone else who's read it) be able to tell me the extent of the v*mit trigger in it? Does it just happen once or is it like, very frequent... I really wanna read it but this is a trigger for me :(
I’ll check that one out! For the v*mit it was relatively minor from what I recall. If I’m remembering correctly it’s a character that gets a virus in the story The Resident. Hopefully I’m not forgetting another time!
so ive seen a lot of your bujo content and saw your reading trackers and what not but I never realized you had book content! Excuse me while I binge all these videos I was missing out on
This was a fun video! If you're looking for more book recommendations with actual female race, my 2 nonfiction recommendations are Good and Mad and Eloquent Rage. For fiction, I loved both Iron Widow and The Poppy War.
I really enjoyed hearing your opinions about these books! Now Lucy is on my tbr 📖 That's a bit unrelated, but would you do a bookshelf tour or a tour of your physical books? Your bookshelf looks stunning (as does your makeup) 😍
The Vegetarian is sitting on my shelf just waiting to be read. I can't wait to finally get into it. Not female rage recommendations but since you enjoyed The Vegetarian and Her Body and Other Parties, I recommend Han Kang's Human Acts and Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House. Both have pretty extensive trigger warnings so check those out of course but they're some of my favorite books I've ever read. Human Acts is about the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea and In The Dream House is Machado's memoir about an abusive relationship. Both are excellent and the perspectives that the authors use to tell the stories make them even more powerful. Highly recommend both.
I was just thinking of this book (and this video tbh) and from what I'm hearing it might fit the bill for this category: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. I haven't read it yet, but women turn into literal dragons in this book and it certainly appears to at the very *least* be allegory for rage, but as to how they tackle rage directly on page, I'm not sure, but I have a feeling it'll be amazing.
While I definitely appreciated all of your thoughtful comments about the books, I was here for all of the cat content. Your fur babies are so beautiful and I'm about to pick up my own house panther today so I'm living vicariously through you until then.
One book I read last month that I thought was excellent was The Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum. It wasn’t really about female rage in the way you mean, but it sure gave me female rage! Definitely worth the read!
If you love Her body and other parties, you should definitely read The dangers of smoking in bed by Mariana Enriquez if you havent! I feel like it gives off pretty similar vybes
I know this is not the point of this video, but you reading with your cat is so cute! My cat Dundee looks a lot like Yoda and loves to sit in my lap or lay on my chest while I’m reading, but he also loves to rub his head up against my book and knock it out of my hand 😂
Hi Elizabeth! The Fury is a book about female rage, not sure I enjoyed it, but I did feel that it addressed that kind of feeling. You should also read the play Emilia, the final soliloquy is the most beautiful ode to female rage I have ever seen! And the poetry collection Teeth on the Back of my Neck has some enraged poems... I've got The Power in my TBR as well, will come back to this comment when I have read it :)
also, in case someone else recommends it, I do not recommend the Madwoman's Ball, for this prompt or anything else for tbat matter (unless you're interested in schoolgirl white feminism)
Oo so many suggestions, thank you ❤️I enjoyed The Power and it definitely fits the prompt! Edit: Do you know the authors of the books/play you suggested? I want to make sure I find the right ones!
nightbitch by rachel yoder was featured in one of the tik toks but wasn't one of your reads - absolutely my favorite "female rage" book! i also could not recommend carmen maria machado's memoir in the dream house more; it is phenomenal!
Great video! Jamaica kincaid is do underrated i also love annie john by her. In thinking about female rage i think about the book disorientation by elaine chou i also think of passing by nella larson and sula by toni Morrison
tiktok once again fails to exhibit any critical thinking skills there was definitely no rage in either "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" or "The Vegetarian", so thank you for pointing that out I feel like "The Ballerinas" by Rachel Kapelke-Dale would be a better fit for this theme, although it's not rage-driven throughout, mainly towards the end
I have a reccomendation on the vdrge of the topic. Two books about women in terrible situations, and how they deal with it. It's Purge by Sofi Oksanen and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Both are hearthbreaking, and made me feel rage, even if the characters didn't that much. Both fit also 'reading the world' challenge :)
If someone wants a book genuinely about female rage Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao is the most rageful female protagonist I’ve ever personally read lmao. We’re talking literally dismantling the patriarchy by crushing them with her foot type female rage🤣
If you haven’t read Not That Bad (a collection of feminist essays curated and edited by Roxanne Gay), you should. You will feel all the feels, including a fair amount of rage. I also was not a fan of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Didn’t get it or enjoy it or feel like I learned anything from it at all.
thinking of women in rage, I just started When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, in which women get so enranged in 1950s era American that they turn into dragons.
I am in the middle of Her Body right now and I am loving it. I just finished Especially Heinous and it felt like a freaking fever dream. So far my favorite is Inventory. I just adored it. xo
I suppose it would depend on what way they’re strict! My parents never cared what I read growing up so I don’t have much reference for what would be contested.
I appreciate your points on My Year of Rest and Relaxation, but I think I can provide some insight as someone who relates to the story a bit more. I think it is meant to portray a point in life that not everyone experiences, as it depends on both what happens to you in your life, and how you deal with what happens to you. And these are both completely variable things. It’s not really something I can easily define, but it happens when you experience a devastation or trauma that pushes your mind into complete and all-encompassing apathy. Some people go into this zone in order to simply survive. I think the real reason why the main character is so unlikeable is because she has the money and resources to do amazing things that so many people could only dream of and she didn’t even have to work for it. And she chose to use it fulfilling some depressing and wasteful fantasy of hers. That’s the part that made me dislike her, rather than the actions themselves. I think if she grew up in a rougher environment, the audience would be able to have much more sympathy for her. Both her parents die while she’s trying to become an adult herself, but because of how emotionally cold her parents were she doesn’t know how to deal with it and just starts sleeping. All she cares about is sleep because it’s what her mother taught her. It’s what she was given instead of love. Psychologically it all makes sense. But because she’s rich she’s not relatable. If she was living paycheck to paycheck and also dealing with this, or if she was sleeping on the streets all day and night instead of paying off her apartment for a year, how would you feel? Overall, at its core it’s meant to be goofy beyond belief, and I think it portrays the slightly twisted part of humanity that really would rather just do absolutely nothing at all times.
Honestly, who hasn’t wanted to sleep for a year? 😆 That’s definitely what got me interested. I didn’t expect to dislike it so much. I think it was the end that drove me crazy. I did find her story and her drifting emptiness compelling, but then (Mild spoilers) opening her door to that situation, having absolutely nothing happen, and then… she just decides to be better and she is. No more insomnia, no lingering health effects, not a single consequence. And then on the last page, with her friend, and the very last line…I haven’t hurled a book for a long time, but I was tempted. (Edited for too many “very”s, sorry!)
I understood the context for why she was struggling with depression and the ways her grief was eating at her, but I struggled with the way the author portrayed her depression as laziness and selfishness and her characterization in general (as a deeply unkind/self-centered person). I also agree with the comment above that the ending undermined the rest of the story for me. She wanted to be better so she was… and that’s it. That’s not how grief or depression work, in my experience!
thank you so much for the detailed and honest review of the books :) Her Body and Other Parties seems like smth I am going to try! Also, may I ask where you got your lipstick from, it looks so good on you!
WHY!? BOOKtok, BOOKtube ... why? Literally no other thing does this. There's no MAKEUPtok or ORGANIZINGtube. I don't know why this irritates me so, but it does.
A new book about female rage in a sapphic Jekyll and Hyde retelling is ‘A Society for Soulless Girls’ by Laura Steven. It’s out now in the UK but it’s not available until Fall 2023 in the US x
Have you read any books that you would classify as being about female rage? I'd love to find more in this category to check out!
Sadly I haven't, but I will some day :)
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. It’s non-fiction, and so very enraging. My favourite non-fiction. I’ll add The Vegetarian and My Body and other Parties to my list, for sure.
Not That Bad by Roxane Gay is fabulous, it’s also a collection of stories written from different womens perspectives as well as LGBT+ perspective and I believe has an undertone of rage and sadness. I haven’t finished it since it is quite heavy, but it was free on iBooks for a time!
Cinderella is dead. But it s fantasy
The Natural Way Of Things by Charlotte Wood I think would fit this category of female rage. I'm adding The vegetarian, Her body and other parties and Lucy to my TBR list. Thanks for the thorough video reviews.
When you first talked about female rage, the first two books that came to mind were The Power by Naomi Alderman and Circe by Madeline Miller. To me, both of these books deal with a sort of a reclaiming of power (in the first one quite literally), but also with reconstructing the narrative that surrounds the protagonists in both books and reclaiming power that way
Yes, so true! They’re both great picks for this prompt. And also two books I really enjoyed!
Lovely review Elizabeth! You touched on this at the end when you spoke on how women aren’t “supposed to” experience or show rage. But regarding the few books you thought didn’t really touch on rage-I wonder if female rage isn’t literally about anger, but rather women’s emotional responses to operating under the limits of being women in patriarchal societies. Women are socialized to internalize emotion, so maybe rage shows up as depression, sadness, irritability, need for control etc, rather than the traditional (read: masculine) manifestation of rage as anger. Maybe these other emotions can count as rage within the confines of a society that expects us not to show anger.
the cat content in this 😭🤩 i feel like "they never learn" is a pretty female-rage type book for me!
Haha Chewy and Yoda were all over me this week so I had no choice but to include them 😂 I’ll have to check that one out!
I love how insightful your book content is, feels like having a good conversation or debate with a friend! (Also your reading posture is so elegant, I’m either curled over my book like a 🥐 or find myself slowly melting off my chair/bed 😅)
Aw thank you! I really appreciate that ❤️ haha I tend to try to sit nicely while filming myself reading but I’m usually reading bundled up in bed haha
omg I absolutely recommend reading Iron Widow by Xieran Jay Zhao (if you haven't already). It's a YA sci-fi novel inspired by Chinese history (the main character is named after Wu Zetian, one of the only (if not THE only) empress China ever had and she is purely driven by female rage).
It’s on my TBR! I really need to pick it up. Thank you for the reminder!
I was thinking about this book too!! It's great :)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t like My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I DNFed it. I plan to read the other books too. I had not heard of The Vegetarian or Lucy until this video. You definitely made me want to pick them up!
It seems so universally loved, but there are definitely dozens of us who didn’t like it 😂 I hope you enjoy the other books more!
I agree, The Yellow Wallpaper is very good. The Vegetarian sounds really good as well
It’s amazing. I’ve recommended it to so many people since reading it! The Vegetarian is hard to read and strange but very good ❤️
Not sure if it counts as female rage specifically, but Sword of Kaigen is a great one that shows the dedication and care from a mother/wife's perspective (kind of) It's one of my favorites that I read last year.
THANK YOU for your comments, especially on the Moshfegh. I almost had a war with my literary friends over it, because they insisted the story and character was a brilliant invention by a brilliant writer, and I maintained that it was insipid, half-hearted, insulting and a shallow take on some very real problems. It certainly made me rage, especially on the last page! I also adored The Vegetarian and Her Body and Other Parties (which I thought was PHENOMENAL), so since you’ve recommended Lucy I’m definitely going to pick it up. My rage recommendation is Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno, a delightfully creepy, vivid, suspenseful novel with some very memorable characters. 💥
(Edited to add: I’ve only seen Chewie from above, so it was great to see him cuddling with you in the reading chair!)
😂😂 haha oh no, I’m glad we felt the same about MYORAR! Seems like we have similar taste! I hope you enjoy Lucy. I’ve read Mexican Gothic!
The Vegetarian was already on my tbr. I've always found it sad (nobody get offended) that women so often introduce themselves as " I'm NAME, I'm a mom. " ... 🤦🏼♀️. That says little to nothing about a female as a human! Words like mom, daughter, wife, employee, etc, are words that women use to describe themselves when the reality is that the words mean nothing about a person.
Well I tried to start a “Hi, I’m NAME, and my favourite colour is so and so” but it just didn’t catch 🤔
I love Her Body and Other Stories - one of my favorite reads last year!
It’s such an amazing collection!
Id recommend Woman, Eating to anyone and everyone. Definitely touches on female rage (with a lot of build up) and i loved it.
I always come out of these videos with even more books for my TBR! My wallet is already crying, but I don't care. Your reviews are always eloquent and have just enough info to make me curious and excited about the book. I also just want to say you look as stunning as always and for literally half of the video I was just thinking 'man she has good fashion sense. look at that HAIR.' Seeing Chewy and Yoda, too, made my day and I wish my pets stayed long enough for me to read books with them. Wonderful video as usual!
Aw thank you! I’m glad you enjoy these videos and get new books to add to your TBR ❤️
Please make a separate book tube channel. I love your book content
i really liked my year of rest and relaxation. im kinda new to books so i dont have a lot of ground to stand on when it comes to reviews but i really liked the mc. for me, tha caracter really shows how depression can turn someone complitely numb and a how a person in the illnes cant really see how theyre treating others cause theyre always struggling with their own issues. personally i went through a depression phase a few years ago and i had terrible relationships with a lot of people around me because i was so selfish but that wasnt something i could reflect upon until now when im not in the illnes anymore.
Thanks for the insight on My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I've been meaning to pick it up for a while, but now I don't have to feel bad for how long it's been on my TBR haha. (Also "MYORAR!" sounds like a cry of rage in itself - maybe the perfect expression for how it feels to read it?)
lol I think you might be right! No need to feel bad for not getting around to it 😅
Not related to the books but Yoda licking your hands while you reading is the cutest thing ever, i am melting😭😭😭😭
Haha she was so snuggly the week or two I was filming! 🥰
I love all your book reviews, please don’t stop. I have put HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES & LUCY on my tbr. Hoping I can get one or both today. Happy August birthday 🎉 you are in awesome company. I’m also an August birthday.
Happy birthday to you, too! I’m so glad you enjoy the bookish videos 🥰
Great video, Elizabeth. I agree with you about “My Year of rest and relaxation”. Cannot understand the great reviews. For me it was boring and very monotonous and repetitive…🤦🏻♀️ As for the other books you read, with the exception of “A certain hunger” I have added them to my reading list. 🙏🏻😚
Exceedingly repetitive! I hope you enjoy them ❤️
I haven't read these books but when you say the lead characters are more numb than angry, it makes me wonder if they're so angry they're numb... for me when I'm numb that's usually why, because my feelings are so intense that they need to be shut down so i become numb...but when i think of rage i think of fire thats allow to burn... im definitely gonna read "A certain Hunger" and the last 2 but that one sounds up my alley.
I am so glad you read Her Body and Other Parties. It is so so incredible. I actually just got the urge to reread the SUV story yesterday. I might do that when I get off of work. Virgin with a Memory is one of my favorite books from this year and it is a rape/revenge story. Kinda. It is so amazing and very meta.
Sooo I've been recently reading ALOT of the books u've mentions in your videos and I felt exactly what you felt about those books. I find every book choice of yours to be a good book, and it actually is. Im going to try reading one of the books you've mentioned in this video and hopefully I'll like them!!
Salutations to people around the world
I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed my recommendations! ❤️
Her body and other parties has also been on my TBR for what feels like forever - hearing your review makes me want to get to it asap!
Thanks for adding to my TBR stack. Loved the reading with kitty interludes😻
Glad you enjoyed it!
My picks for female rage books-
The Power
My Sister, The Serial Killer
The Female of the Species
I love all your recommendations! ✨
Oo yes The Power definitely fits the prompt! I haven’t read the other two. I’ll have to check them out 👀
Who is the author of the Female of the Species? I checked Goodreads but there were multiple books with the same name.
@@MelikePrlk Mindy McGinnis
@@sayoshnighosh3370 thank you!
If you want a nonfiction take on female rage you have to read Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister! It is so so good and totally opened my mind to how impactful rage can be especially from women and how it could lead to important change in the world!
I don't have TikTok and I've not heard of female rage books before. Since I'm female I have had rage but that's about all I know about it 🤣🤣. I think of the 5 books you talked about I would try Her Body and other parties because the other ones sound a bit too scary ( or too boring).
As a sidenote: you looked lovely in your video, I like how you curl you hair, the front pieces of it (I think they call those bangs?). It looks very nice. 😊
Her body and other parties is great! Definitely worth the read ❤️
@@PlantBasedBride I added it on my to read list and now just need the time (and motivation and right mindset) to read it 🤞🤞😂😂
The first one sounds like a complete delight!😂😂😂
I read The Vegetarian a few days ago and honestly it's still settling down on me. It was a shocking story in the moment, but I'm finding myself getting more and more horrified with the violence in it as the days go by. But yes, I wouldn't really say it's about female rage, at least for the character. It does awakens my female rage though.
loooved this video so much i'm so glad it introduced me to your channel, your taste is MAGNIFICENT i must say. and your cats!!! adorable. i love carmen maria machado's work so dearly, and if you haven't read her other book in the dream house you absolutely must. i've been lucky enough to hear machado speak at two events and she's just as funny, wonderful and eloquent as you'd think. definitely some of my most starstruck moments i've lived
Aw thank you! Welcome 🥰 I have a copy of In The Dream House on my bookshelf! I hope to get around to it soon. And that sounds amazing! I feel like she’d be so fascinating to listen to ❤️
I recommend the Manningtree Witches for this prompt! The main character doesn't have that much rage but I think her mum (a very interesting character) does. Plus, it's definitely an insight into misogyny and how women couldn't win either way when it came to the witch trials of the 1600s.
Regarding Her Body and Other Parties, would anyone (either Elizabeth or anyone else who's read it) be able to tell me the extent of the v*mit trigger in it? Does it just happen once or is it like, very frequent... I really wanna read it but this is a trigger for me :(
I’ll check that one out! For the v*mit it was relatively minor from what I recall. If I’m remembering correctly it’s a character that gets a virus in the story The Resident. Hopefully I’m not forgetting another time!
so ive seen a lot of your bujo content and saw your reading trackers and what not but I never realized you had book content! Excuse me while I binge all these videos I was missing out on
Haha I have quite a few bookish videos for you to catch up on! I hope you enjoy them ❤️
This was a fun video! If you're looking for more book recommendations with actual female race, my 2 nonfiction recommendations are Good and Mad and Eloquent Rage. For fiction, I loved both Iron Widow and The Poppy War.
I really enjoyed hearing your opinions about these books! Now Lucy is on my tbr 📖 That's a bit unrelated, but would you do a bookshelf tour or a tour of your physical books? Your bookshelf looks stunning (as does your makeup) 😍
Oh, enjoy it! I’m moving in the next few weeks but I’ll definitely do a tour when I get set up in the new place ❤️
The Vegetarian is sitting on my shelf just waiting to be read. I can't wait to finally get into it. Not female rage recommendations but since you enjoyed The Vegetarian and Her Body and Other Parties, I recommend Han Kang's Human Acts and Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House. Both have pretty extensive trigger warnings so check those out of course but they're some of my favorite books I've ever read. Human Acts is about the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea and In The Dream House is Machado's memoir about an abusive relationship. Both are excellent and the perspectives that the authors use to tell the stories make them even more powerful. Highly recommend both.
I have both of them in my TBR! I’m even more excited to read them after finishing The Vegetarian and Her Body and Other Parties ❤️
I was just thinking of this book (and this video tbh) and from what I'm hearing it might fit the bill for this category: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. I haven't read it yet, but women turn into literal dragons in this book and it certainly appears to at the very *least* be allegory for rage, but as to how they tackle rage directly on page, I'm not sure, but I have a feeling it'll be amazing.
i love this reading vlog style content! would love to see more themed reading vlogs like this from you!!
More to come! ❤
Loved this video! I've really wanted to read A Certain Hunger to see what the hype was about!
I hope you enjoy it if you give it a go!
While I definitely appreciated all of your thoughtful comments about the books, I was here for all of the cat content. Your fur babies are so beautiful and I'm about to pick up my own house panther today so I'm living vicariously through you until then.
Oh congratulations!!! House panthers are the best 🥰
One book I read last month that I thought was excellent was The Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum. It wasn’t really about female rage in the way you mean, but it sure gave me female rage! Definitely worth the read!
Oo intriguing! Thank you for the suggestion ❤️
Thank you PBB - I am definitely going to read Her Body and Other Parties. TY for your review.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did ❤️
I’ll be picking up The Vegetarian, Her body and… plus Lucy. Thank you for the recommendations!
I hope you find them as worthwhile as I did!
If you love Her body and other parties, you should definitely read The dangers of smoking in bed by Mariana Enriquez if you havent! I feel like it gives off pretty similar vybes
I read it last year! Something about it didn’t quite click for me, sadly, though I enjoyed some of the concepts.
I know this is not the point of this video, but you reading with your cat is so cute! My cat Dundee looks a lot like Yoda and loves to sit in my lap or lay on my chest while I’m reading, but he also loves to rub his head up against my book and knock it out of my hand 😂
Haha my kitties were all over me the past few weeks so they had to feature in the video 😂❤️
Is it me or has Yoda become full chonk since moving to Saskatchewan?
Hi Elizabeth! The Fury is a book about female rage, not sure I enjoyed it, but I did feel that it addressed that kind of feeling. You should also read the play Emilia, the final soliloquy is the most beautiful ode to female rage I have ever seen! And the poetry collection Teeth on the Back of my Neck has some enraged poems... I've got The Power in my TBR as well, will come back to this comment when I have read it :)
also, in case someone else recommends it, I do not recommend the Madwoman's Ball, for this prompt or anything else for tbat matter (unless you're interested in schoolgirl white feminism)
Oo so many suggestions, thank you ❤️I enjoyed The Power and it definitely fits the prompt! Edit: Do you know the authors of the books/play you suggested? I want to make sure I find the right ones!
nightbitch by rachel yoder was featured in one of the tik toks but wasn't one of your reads - absolutely my favorite "female rage" book! i also could not recommend carmen maria machado's memoir in the dream house more; it is phenomenal!
Oo yes, I almost picked that one! And In the Dreamhouse is on my TBR ❤️
please you need to read ‘Decemeber breeze’ my Marvel moreno ❤❤❤
Great video! Jamaica kincaid is do underrated i also love annie john by her. In thinking about female rage i think about the book disorientation by elaine chou i also think of passing by nella larson and sula by toni Morrison
Oo I’d love to read another book of hers! Thanks for the rec ❤️ and Passing is a good fit for this theme for sure!
I'm going to have to check these out. Thanks for the recommendations. 🙂
I hope you enjoy them!
tiktok once again fails to exhibit any critical thinking skills
there was definitely no rage in either "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" or "The Vegetarian", so thank you for pointing that out
I feel like "The Ballerinas" by Rachel Kapelke-Dale would be a better fit for this theme, although it's not rage-driven throughout, mainly towards the end
Haha yeah I was a bit confused with that classification, honestly. I’ll have to check that one out!
Your cats are so adorable 😍 and you look so beautiful in everything you wear!
Thank you so much! They really are the cutest ❤
I have a reccomendation on the vdrge of the topic. Two books about women in terrible situations, and how they deal with it. It's Purge by Sofi Oksanen and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Both are hearthbreaking, and made me feel rage, even if the characters didn't that much. Both fit also 'reading the world' challenge :)
I added « The Vegetarian » in my TBR 😊
I hope you find it as worthwhile as I did!
If someone wants a book genuinely about female rage Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao is the most rageful female protagonist I’ve ever personally read lmao. We’re talking literally dismantling the patriarchy by crushing them with her foot type female rage🤣
If you haven’t read Not That Bad (a collection of feminist essays curated and edited by Roxanne Gay), you should. You will feel all the feels, including a fair amount of rage. I also was not a fan of My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Didn’t get it or enjoy it or feel like I learned anything from it at all.
Her body and other parties is going on my TBR 📚
I hope you enjoy it! ❤️
thinking of women in rage, I just started When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, in which women get so enranged in 1950s era American that they turn into dragons.
Um, that sounds INCREDIBLE!
i have not read any books in this “genre” “trend” but one on my tbr is circe i think it counts
I agree! Circe is a great book and definitely fits the prompt ❤️
I am in the middle of Her Body right now and I am loving it. I just finished Especially Heinous and it felt like a freaking fever dream. So far my favorite is Inventory. I just adored it. xo
Are there any female rage books recommendations that would be ok for a young teen with strict ish parents?
I suppose it would depend on what way they’re strict! My parents never cared what I read growing up so I don’t have much reference for what would be contested.
It’s mostly bad gore or sexual stuff that they would restrict.
I appreciate your points on My Year of Rest and Relaxation, but I think I can provide some insight as someone who relates to the story a bit more. I think it is meant to portray a point in life that not everyone experiences, as it depends on both what happens to you in your life, and how you deal with what happens to you. And these are both completely variable things. It’s not really something I can easily define, but it happens when you experience a devastation or trauma that pushes your mind into complete and all-encompassing apathy. Some people go into this zone in order to simply survive.
I think the real reason why the main character is so unlikeable is because she has the money and resources to do amazing things that so many people could only dream of and she didn’t even have to work for it. And she chose to use it fulfilling some depressing and wasteful fantasy of hers. That’s the part that made me dislike her, rather than the actions themselves. I think if she grew up in a rougher environment, the audience would be able to have much more sympathy for her. Both her parents die while she’s trying to become an adult herself, but because of how emotionally cold her parents were she doesn’t know how to deal with it and just starts sleeping. All she cares about is sleep because it’s what her mother taught her. It’s what she was given instead of love. Psychologically it all makes sense. But because she’s rich she’s not relatable. If she was living paycheck to paycheck and also dealing with this, or if she was sleeping on the streets all day and night instead of paying off her apartment for a year, how would you feel?
Overall, at its core it’s meant to be goofy beyond belief, and I think it portrays the slightly twisted part of humanity that really would rather just do absolutely nothing at all times.
Honestly, who hasn’t wanted to sleep for a year? 😆 That’s definitely what got me interested. I didn’t expect to dislike it so much. I think it was the end that drove me crazy. I did find her story and her drifting emptiness compelling, but then
(Mild spoilers)
opening her door to that situation, having absolutely nothing happen, and then…
she just decides to be better and she is. No more insomnia, no lingering health effects, not a single consequence. And then on the last page, with her friend, and the very last line…I haven’t hurled a book for a long time, but I was tempted.
(Edited for too many “very”s, sorry!)
I understood the context for why she was struggling with depression and the ways her grief was eating at her, but I struggled with the way the author portrayed her depression as laziness and selfishness and her characterization in general (as a deeply unkind/self-centered person). I also agree with the comment above that the ending undermined the rest of the story for me. She wanted to be better so she was… and that’s it. That’s not how grief or depression work, in my experience!
two reading vids within 3 weeks?! *faints*
Haha and next week is a reading journal video! 😂❤️
I knew it was important, and conveniently my library got a new book about it. I've learned quite a bit.
thank you so much for the detailed and honest review of the books :) Her Body and Other Parties seems like smth I am going to try! Also, may I ask where you got your lipstick from, it looks so good on you!
You look beautiful ☺️ love the background
Thank you so much🥰
I'm just curious if you finish a book although you don't really like it (like the first one you talked about).
I often will because I'm a completionist at heart, but I do occasionally DNF something!
Im so curious to know if you keep the books that you didn't enjoy
I’ll keep them for a little while in case I want to make content about them and then remove tabs and donate to my local library ❤️
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you're beautiful
Aw thank you ❤️
MYORAR is not female rage - I don't know who told you that.
Very good ✔️👌🏻
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WHY!? BOOKtok, BOOKtube ... why? Literally no other thing does this. There's no MAKEUPtok or ORGANIZINGtube. I don't know why this irritates me so, but it does.
A new book about female rage in a sapphic Jekyll and Hyde retelling is ‘A Society for Soulless Girls’ by Laura Steven. It’s out now in the UK but it’s not available until Fall 2023 in the US x
Ohh interesting! I love the original so I’m definitely going to read this one ❤️
The Girls of Paper and Fire triology has definitely some female rage and revenge in it. Be very mindful of trigger warning though 🤎
I’ll have to check it out!