Hey Chifems! Remember, we are meeting on 4/1 to talk about As Always, Julia! Hope to see you there! 1. These women are both pioneers in a feminist sense. Are they considered feminist icons? Why/not? 2. In the introduction, we… Read more ›
If you’ve been a good Chifem, you’ve been reading The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht! Hopefully you’re finished or almost there, because we are meeting on Sunday, January 22 (check the link for place and time) for an in-person discussion.… Read more ›
I fell in love with literature at a very young age. I loved books so much, I wanted to create them, because I wanted to give readers the same joy many authors had given me. Then, I grew up a… Read more ›
Chifems, don’t forget that we are meeting on January 22 at 1:00 PM at a location to be announced to discuss The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht. Lucky for us, this is also the first pick for the Huffington Post… Read more ›
Attention, Chifems! We’re starting up the book club again! I know you all are as excited as I am for this. 😀 I am really excited! Now that we have a place to house all of the Chicago Feminist events,… Read more ›
He Said What?: Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed edited by Victoria Zackheim (Click on the image to buy the book from Powells.com or the text to buy from BarnesandNoble.com and I will receive a sliver of the profits… Read more ›
Recently, one of my former students came to me and asked for some book recommendations for over winter break because she had recently finished The Book Theif on my recommendation, and hadn’t been able to find anything that came close… Read more ›
Follow My Lead: What Training My Dogs Taught Me about Life, Love, and Happiness by Carol Quinn – Purchase Follow My Lead from Powell’s Bookstore via this link and I’ll receive some of the money from your purchase. All comission from the sale… Read more ›
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate My rating: 5 of 5 stars My friend, Amanda, gave me an advance copy of The Tast of Salt a little while back, and I picked it up shortly thereafter because the cover… Read more ›
Lucky for us, Susie Bright will actually BE IN CHICAGO in October, so we are going to get to meet her to talk about the book rather than do it virtually! Horray! Unfortunately, this means we need a new book… Read more ›
The #chifems are at it again with yet another intriguing book selection for the summer! This month, we’ll be reading Big Sex Little Death by Susie Bright and, by her suggestion, we’ll hopefully be having a conversation via Skype with… Read more ›
Sex and the City has always bugged me for reasons I could never put my finger on. That is, before yesterday. I was sitting at an awesome, feminist lunch with my pal Amanda (who I am SO GLAD is back… Read more ›
The following is a guest post by Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple, authors of Good Enough Is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood, which I reviewed here. Hollee and her husband, John, started regular… Read more ›
Day After Night by Anita Diamant My rating: 5 of 5 stars Instead of a review, I’m going to post my discussion questions for the Chifems Book Club (meeting on May 1! Come join us!!). There are spoilers in the questions,… Read more ›
The Magicians by Lev Grossman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well. I read this book because Jillian recommended it to me and loaned me the book. And I am absolutely not sad I did. However, I do think the… Read more ›
On Sunday, I had the good fortune to hear Jenn Pozner read from Reality Bites Back at Women & Children First Bookstore. I was very excited to hear her read, and to hang out with some Chifems, especially since this… Read more ›
Good Enough Is the New Perfect by Becky Beaupre Gillespie My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m going to start this review with two important admissions: 1. I am not a mother. 2. I consciously decided not to finish the… Read more ›
What book should we read in April, Chifems? Vote any time between now and Friday, April 8. The book will be selected on Friday, and we ARE going to read it this month, and we ARE going to meet! I… Read more ›
Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart by Nina Simons My rating: 4 of 5 stars A review copy of this book has been on my desk since the end of December, and I feel terrible that I’m… Read more ›
The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez My rating: 2 of 5 stars I really, really wanted to like this book. I really, really wanted to finish this book. The fact of the matter is, though, that I’ve never… Read more ›