In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books," and we understand how he felt. Books have been our best friends ever since we can remember and we're going to celebrate our love for them with this 'reading challenge.' The aim is to tick one book off every month!

Although our lives have taken us in different directions, this challenge, and this blog, is also a way for us to celebrate our friendship as well as our love of reading.

This blog is really just for fun and each entry will explain how the 'book of the month' fits into the category, why we made our choices, and include some comments/thoughts on each book.

Let the challenge commence!!

Donna and Ida

Monday, 10 July 2017

Challenge 16: A Book You Learned About Because Of This Challenge

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Donna's Book: "Chicken's Soup for the Woman's Soul" by Jack Canfield (Ebury Digital, 2010)

 Because of Ida's interests, and the books that she's been reading in this challenge, I've become much more aware of feminism and feminist issues in literature.  I'm not sure that I wanted anything too heavy this summer (I really need to relax after finishing writing the book, end-of-year marking, and the St Peter's 60th Anniversary) and I've always loved the 'Chicken Soup' series, and so I'm hoping this will help me think more about the role of women in society but without being too taxing!

Comments:

Sadly this was really disappointing.  Rather than being a celebration of women and their contributions to society, or inspiring women to succeed or fight on, it drifted into stereotypical messages of how motherhood was good, and very little else.  Of course motherhood is good and important, but women are so much more than that.  Shame this book didn't seem to realise it.
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