Kameron Hurley asks readers to say the first thing that comes to mind upon reading the word “Hero”. What is your first thought?. . . . . My first thought was Harry Potter. Then Sherlock Holmes (The Benedict Cumberbatch version, naturally). Then the Tenth Doctor (11 is my Doctor, but apparently, subconsciously, I feel like…

I am excited to start How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett. My daughter asked for a book review on this one. She’d really like to know where her emotions come from. #howemotionsaremade #thesecretlifeofthebrain #lisafeldmanbarrett #science #sciencebook #STEM #stemgirls #booknerd #read #reader #reading #books #bookclub #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #library #readersofinstagram…

I picked up The Geek Feminist Revolution at the library this week. 16 pages in and I can tell @kameronhurley and I will have a lot in common.#geekfeministrevolution #kameronhurley #geekgirl #feminism #feminist #feministlit #feministliterature #geek #geekstagram #nerdygirl #nerd #nerdygirls #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #book #books #bookclub #booknerd #kalidesautelsreads 

I have always hated tattoos. I have a fear of needles that is ironic for a person who has spent more than half of her life being poked. When I was married, I forced my sister to cover her tattoos with a bracelet and bridesmaids dress, because “I hated tattoos” (bridezilla much??). So what, you…

❤️❤️❤️❤️ Margaret Atwood wrote the dystopic The Handmaid’s Tale in the 1980s, after the first and second waves of the Women’s Movement. At that time, Conservatives were railing against Affirmative Action, against women working outside the home, against what was considered the “traditional family”. The Handmaid’s Tale is a social satire, wherein women are stripped…

Sauron is hoping to Make Mordor Great Again. My friend is not convinced… #lordoftherings #lotr #sauron #mordor #makemordorgreatagain #litreference #literature #book #geekstagram #nerdygirls #noveltytshirt #geekgirl #geek #nerd #nerdygirl #book #bibliophile #booksbooksandmorebooks #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #read #reader #reading #readersofinstagram #kalidesautelsreads #kalidesautelsshops

❤️❤️❤️💔 Charles Dickens’ 13th novel, Great Expectations is a tome of a book. The 544 pages follow the narrator/protagonist Pip from early childhood, until later adulthood. Written in a Victorian conversational style, the reader will feel that Pip is recounting his life story, with the benefit of hindsight. Pip is neither hero, nor antihero, but…

It’s scary when paragraphs from speculative fiction no longer sound like speculative fiction. #thehandmaidstale #margaretatwood @margaretatwoodofficial #speculativefiction #truth #feminism #feminist #political #politics #censorship #censored #news #fear #realism #real #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #booknerd #book #booklovers #books #bibliophile #booksbooksandmorebooks #read #reader #reading #readersofinstagram #kalidesautelsreads 

Happy. Sad. Conflicted. Complicated. Content. Simple. Angry. Depressed. Thrilled. Ecstatic. Hysterical. Terrified. Trepidatious. Loving. Dramatic.  These are only a handful of emotions that every person has, yet, with the advent of Pinterest quotes, Facebook updates, tweets and Instagram inspirational pages, we see day in and day out the mantra that we “only have room for…

I am halfway through The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. My thoughts so far are that, while written in 1985, as a satire, the laws that are being passed and are attempting to be passed in the world at the moment make the Republic of Gilead seem not as far fetched as one would have…