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Hi Queens!
I am being very selective about what media I consume. Since levelling up two years ago, mass/popular media does not appeal to me. It is riddled with pickme and LVM mentalities and part of the enforcement of patriarchy. I find that most of the popular romantic tropes are really toxic.
That said, I would love to read some fiction books that ARE FDS aligned. Pro-woman, female-centered, and if men are important to the plot, they are HVM. (or so blatantly LV that they are the villan.)
I'd love nothing more than to stimulate my mind through books/imagionary worlds while I remain single for the next few years, or forever. <3
(most REAL MEN AINT SHIT, lol.)
Any suggestions are appreciated! Books or shows/movies, honestly.
I don't have any fiction books, but one of my favorite nonfiction books is Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. It helps creative souls to own and step into their creativity.
I also recommend some of the books of Tosha Silver. She has helped me embrace my divine feminine energy and STOP working myself to death/to the benefit of the patriarchy. She also talks about having an abundance mindset. But again, that is nonfiction.
Thanks in advance queens!!
Check out the recs here: https://www.womenforwomen.org/book-club-series
Two books come to mind:
---The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale. This is the description from Goodreads:
"A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them"
I loved the strong bond among the women and the story was engaging. However, there is a trigger warning for the descriptions of domestic violence. But, it is an uplifting story to see these women develop strength and determination during their situation as well as their sense of humour.
---Killers of A Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn. Here's the description from Goodreads:
"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon.
They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller.
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.
When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they've been marked for death.
Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They're about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman--and a killer--of a certain age.
I loved the action and the fast pace and also the fact that the characters were well developed, strong women with distinct personalities. And the fact they were older women was a plus for me. I gave this book to my mom for Mother's Day and I want to reread it again.
I recently finished ‘when women were dragons’ basically a historical fictional imagining of a physical ‘mass dragoning’ of women… in response to the BS associated with being a women in the 50s.