lip lit: margaret overton, good in a crisis
Ever since my young sister spent three months in hospital due to complications following brain-surgery, I’ve been fascinated with books about illness and grief, particularly when it comes to memoir. It’s not that I’m a morbid person. It’s more that since I’m writing about the subject myself, I like to see how others approach it. [...]
lip lit: gin and juice, the victorian guide to parenting
My older sister is pregnant, and I’m ridiculously excited. It’s the first time I’m going to be an aunty, so I’m already going weak-kneed at the sight of baby mittens. Mittens! So babies don’t claw themselves with their insanely, tiny, perfect fingernails! And don’t even get me started on minature Converse sneakers, they just about make [...]
lip lit: nikki lovell, we are one village
Nikki Lovell is the founder of the charity One Village, which aims to support Ugandan communities by providing educational, agricultural, infrastructural and health support. Lovell begun One Village after spending a Gap year in the small village of Namwendwa where she witnessed – and experienced — poverty first hand. She saw how a few simple changes and [...]
lip lit: ya mini round-up, the hunger games + spoiled
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins It’s safe to say the only thing currently rivaling Twilight delirium is the insatiable appetite for The Hunger Games (I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself). After my unfortunate experiment in reading Twilight, I had decided not to read The Hunger Games. I thought it was going to be in [...]
Books for budding feminists: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
So far on my journey to become a better feminist through reading I have encountered some real gems. Living dolls, the Vagina Monologues and the Beauty Myth have all opened my eyes to aspects of life that have always been there, but have also always escaped my understanding. However, after happily and hungrily digesting the [...]
Books for budding feminists: Phyllis Chesler, Letters to a young feminist
If you’re anything like me, you would love to have a feminist role model that you can actually talk to and seek advice from. This person would not be commandeering and prescriptive, but would be an approachable person who could comfortably answer your questions with both knowledge and respect. This person would acknowledge that society [...]
lip lit: david foenkinos, delicacy
I’m often a little saddened when I read a book that has been translated. I always wonder – how much did I lose? Language is complex, temperamental and beautiful. Words not only create worlds, but they create nuanced characters and a sense of lyrically. When used well, words create a melody that sweeps you [...]
welcome to lip’s bookshop!
Avid Facebook followers may have noticed that Lip has “opened” a bookshop! Basically, I keep moving house and having to lug books around the place, and so I suggested to the Lip ladies that we sell our pre-loved books to you, our much-loved readers! Don’t you find it’s that much easier to part with books [...]
lip lit: should we feel guilty over ‘guilty’ pleasures?
There are over 200 Baby-Sitters’ Club books sitting proudly on my bookshelf. Logic tells me I should be ashamed of them, but I’m not. I used to be, between the ages of twelve and fourteen, when I was too old to be reading them and they hadn’t yet reached the ‘coolness’ stage of nostalgia, the [...]
Books for budding feminists: Ursula K. Le Guin, The left hand of darkness
As part of my journey to become a better, more knowledgeable feminist, I decided to explore some feminist fiction alongside the non-fiction. I decided to do this not only because it was getting a little dry constantly reading non-fiction, but also because fiction tends to reflect the society and culture of the writer. By reading [...]
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