Please comment suggestions for next month here. One suggestion per comment. You can comment multiple times. Please include any details you might find relevant (not mandatory but helpful). Please vote on other suggestions as well. Thank you!
Thank you the interest! I imagine we'll keep it English language since that's most likely to be read, but once we're established would love some Spanish literature months. I've read some basics, such as like water for chocolate, but would be open to more suggestions once we have a group established. Of course there's nothing stopping you from reading the Spanish reason of the works!
Thank you for letting me know! If the show option becomes more doable than the book option, I might suggest some tangents videos as contenders. The comments sections of the videos seem pretty sparse of actual discussion, so I'd be interested to see what ladies here have to think for some of them.
I'm thinking anything related to the female experience. Whether it stars women, is written by women, directed by women, or just about men's interactions with women.
For books I think I'd like to start with some Ursula K le Guin short stories. I want to make sure there's enough people willing to read a short story that it could potentially translate into actual books. I don't want to choose a book and then just me and one other person read it or something. I'd feel bad I got them excited for nothing. I feel like le guins work is so universal that the genre won't be a problem and she is so seminal that I hope even if the genre is off putting people will be willing to overlook it.
For shows, probably not a show like Breaking Bad, even though there's technically a marriage involved, since it stars men and is written and directed mostly by men, but shows like Good Girls and Wednesday (starring women), or You (about women and based on books written by a woman), or the Matrix (from the Wachowski sisters). Lots of options really.
I had not seen any of her tangents videos, but my goodness that was really interesting. It's the kind of video I wish she did more of publicly instead of her more highly produced content. I understand that the audience for those might be smaller, but it felt so much dense and materially grounded. I know at the end of the day it's all infotainment, but still. Thanks for adding this to the discussion.
Thank you for the recommendation! I keep seeing it online and I might have to just pick it up based on your comment and it leading me to read some reviews.
Thank you for sharing! Back in my less radical but more rebellious days I really enjoyed reading radical feminist works. I didn't agree with most of their takes, but it was exciting to see the way they viewed the world. Now I'm less able to stomach revolutionary texts that aren't firmly rooted in better politics, even as just fun thought exercises. I still think they were important to me while forming my own beliefs, but I doubt revisiting them would serve much purpose. Nice to see that's not a wholly unique experience.
Here is the post for the first month 🎉: https://lemmus.org/post/16011446