#Christina Dalcher

[madamwhynot]

"A minha solidariedade já se esgotou. Que trabalhem 12 horas por dia para compensarem a eliminação de quase metade da força laboral." Vox

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#personal #currently reading #book #booklr #Vox #Christina dalcher #2023

[afulltimenerd]

"I'll do everything I can." Everything I should have done.

Vox by Christina Dalcher

#vox #christina dalcher #dystopia #feminsim #book #books #read #reader #reading #am reading #currently reading #book quote #book quotes #book quotation #quote #quotes #quote of the day #qotd #book blog #book blogs #book blogging #booklr #booktok #booktube #book worm

[figosaurusnook]

📖Review📖

Vox - Christina Dalcher

A story addressing multiple themes linked to the history of women in the world.

A distopie reminiscent of the theme of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Short and intense story.

Main character to which we attach ourselves.

Short reading representing a good introduction to distopic novels.

I did not expect such a big emotional blow when reading this book.

#bookworm #book blog #vox #Christina Dalcher

[aforcedelire]

QI, Christina Dalcher

Elena Fairchild, enseignante, vit dans un monde où le potentiel de chaque enfant est régulièrement déterminé par un test de QI. Si le score est suffisamment élevé, ils obtiennent des places dans de très bonnes écoles ; si le score est trop bas, rendez-vous dans un internat d'Etat, sans possibilité de voir leurs parents... Le but ? Une meilleure société où les coûts de l'éducation baissent, et où les enseignants peuvent pleinement se concentrer sur les élèves prometteurs. Et jusque-là, Elena approuvait ce système. Mais lorsque sa plus jeune fille rate un test, elle décide de se soulever. Et elle compte bien faire du bruit — beaucoup de bruit.

Dès les premières pages on est direct dans le bain, avec une histoire qui rappelle très fortement le premier roman de Christina Dalcher. Il y a beaucoup de similitudes avec Vox : le personnage principal est une femme mère de famille qui veut protéger sa fille de la société totalitaire, elle est ennemie de son mari haut placé ; et l’enseignement et la science prennent une grande part.

Au cours de notre lecture, on apprend qu’Elena a participé sans le vouloir à l’émergence de ce nouveau système, avec ce qui avait commencé comme un jeu innocent pour de préserver du harcèlement scolaire… Elle va remuer ciel et terre pour se retrouver avec sa fille, et arrivée dans l’école jaune, va se rendre compte du pire.

Pour QI, Christina Dalcher s’est inspirée du XXe siècle et de l’eugénisme : les hauts placés ne veulent que des gens parfaits, aryens, avec un QI respectable ; les autres, veulent les stériliser de force sans qu’ils le sachent. J’ai vraiment apprécié le fait que Dalcher fasse référence (et utilise) la Seconde guerre mondiale et ses crimes, surtout au travers du personnage de la grand-mère d’Elena, qui était enfant à cette époque.

J’ai lu le dernier tiers du roman lu d’une traite, la tête sous l’eau à me dire mais ils sont fous ça va aller jusqu’où ? J’ai vraiment adoré. Je l’ai lu grâce au Grand Prix des lecteurs Pocket 2023 et c’est mon préféré de la sélection jusque-là, avec celui de Stacey Halls.

12/03/2023 - 17/03/2023

#livres #books #livre #book #littérature #littérature américaine #dystopie #qi #christina dalcher #éditions pocket #grand prix des lecteurs pocket

[paperbackd]

Book review: Vox by Christina Dalcher

Well... I started reading this, felt slightly uncomfy about the lack of nuance in how the characters were talking about gender and feminism, went online and - yep. Author is a massive transphobe. Don't feel comfortable continuing with it knowing this (not a big loss, it reads like a knockoff of The Handmaid's Tale by someone with a fifth of Atwood's talent anyway). Absolutely hate that exclusionary attitudes have gotten so prevalent that I can't even trust that a book marketed as feminist will be inclusive. If your feminism isn't intersectional, newsflash: you're not a feminist, just someone who cares about your own wellbeing. Anyone reading this, please recommend some intersectional feminist fiction so I can wash the taste of this book out of my mouth!

Publisher: HQ Rating: 1 star | ★✰✰✰✰ Review cross-posted to Goodreads

#booklr #book review #vox #transphobia tw #1 star #r: christina dalcher #genre: dystopian

[warningsine]

Since Mandel's "Station Eleven" and Alderman's "The Power" have gotten their own adaptations, these novels need to follow:

Leni Zumas's "Red Clocks" (abortion is illegal in the US),

Christina Dalcher's "Vox" (women are not allowed to utter more than 100 words/day),

Joanne Ramos's "The Farm" (surrogacy for wealthy people),

Maggie Shen King's "An Excess Male."

[illcit-affairs]

✨️ june wrap-up!! finalmente acabou o mês de junho e eu decidi fazer uma lista com os livros que li esse mês ^^ li 6 livros e não tinha percebido a quantidade até preparar este post e confesso que fiquei orgulhosa, mas enfim, sem mais delongas, vamos lá:

1. a probabilidade estatística do amor à primeira vista – jennifer e. smith 2. vox - christina dalcher 3. entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos – ana paula maia 4. avódezanove e o segredo do soviético – ondjaki 5. matadouro cinco – kurt vonnegut 6. a amiga genial – elena ferrante

me conta se você já leu algum desses!!

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#books #bookstan #livros #books and reading #reading #currently reading #book recommendations #booktok #booklr

[colemckenzies]

Books I read in February ranked best* to worst:

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Three Of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams

All The Lovers In The Night by Mieko Kawakami

The Making Of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng

Love In Colour by Bolu Babalola

The Sentence by Christina Dalcher

The Future by Naomi Alderman

Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

#pretty average month actually no extreme highs or lows this month #book list

[litandlifequotes]

I wrap myself in a quilt of invisible words.

Vox by Christina Dalcher

#book #book quotes #quotes #reading #words #literature #feminism #feminist reading

[afulltimenerd]

Today, I choose golf; pure boredom involving a metal stick and a ball.

Vox by Christina Dalcher

#vox #christina dalcher #dystopia #feminsim #book #books #read #reader #reading #am reading #currently reading #book quote #book quotes #book quotation #quote #quotes #quote of the day #qotd #book blog #book blogs #book blogging #booklr #booktok #booktube #book worm

[vaelerius]

Tag 10 people you want to get to know better!

Thank you @thirteensfavoritetoy for the tag!! :)

• relationship status: terminally single 🙃

• favourite colour: i like black lol. crimson and blue, too.

• favourite food: pizza or chips (fries for the yanks). i love fajitas too

• song stuck in my head: ‘valor’ by hashir

• time: 20:42

• dream trip: japan!

• last book I read: ‘Blood of Tyrants’ by Naomi Novik

• last book I enjoyed reading: ‘Blood of Tyrants’ by Naomi Novik

• last book I hated reading: a tie between ‘The Mandibles’ by Lionel Shriver, and ‘Vox’ by Christina Dalcher - both were absolutely shit.

bonus

• favourite thing to cook/ bake: chocolate chip cookies or gingerbread.

• favourite craft to do in my free time: i love to write if that counts. i occasionally draw, too.

• most niche dislike: posts like “normalise this already incredibly ordinary thing that you should have learnt when you were like 12″ or, posts like “don’t know who needs to hear this”. shut the fuck up.

• opinion(s) on circuses: without animals, good. with animals, bad.

• do you have a sense of direction: i’m pretty average lol i managed to find my way around brussels and belgium on my own fine with little french/dutch

no pressure tagging: @ichiharakazu, @thasminsbeach , @timetravelbypen, @herrshepard

#tag game

[prettylittlelyres]

Review - “The Chrysalids” by John Wyndham

10th February 2023

Hello, friends! I've just finished reading “The Chrysalids” by John Wyndham, which I started on 22nd January this year. I read the last few pages before I went to sleep on 8th February, and I'm just getting around to writing my review now, on the 10th.

This is the third book I’ve read in 2023, but I'm writing this review before I write the review for the second, because I have an awful lot to say about that one! This review will be fairly short, I hope, but I promise it's a good one!

Pages: 202

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian.

Several centuries after nuclear war has devastated the earth, David Strorm and his parents live on the island of Labrador. Society is slowly rebuilding itself according to the laws of the Christian Bible: “And God created man in His own image. And God decreed that man should have one body, one head, two arms and two legs: that each arm should be joined in two places and end in one hand: that each hand should have four fingers and one thumb: that each finger should bear a flat fingernail." When the authorities discover that David's friend Sophie has six-toed feet, she and her family are labelled “Blasphemies” and banished to contaminated land to fend for themselves. As he grows up, David sees deformed crops and livestock destroyed, and families torn apart by the births of babies with visible differences. The message is clear: conform or perish. So, when David and his cousins realise they are different in their own way, they must hatch a plan to escape.

The moral of this story can be summed up quite easily in a single quote from the book itself: “change is evolution, and we are part of it.” Sometimes difference is the first sign of wider change for the better; far from shunning different ideas, we should embrace them as chances to improve what we currently have. Normality and tradition should not be upheld just because they are normal and traditional; what is outdated and restrictive should be reconsidered. There is a time for everything to come to an end, or move aside for the new. This book has a very strong anti-persecution message, but I don't know how well it upholds that message towards the end. Without spoiling anything, it feels like a different group is simply being persecuted instead.

This book really spoke to me as a Queer person. I think it's a universal experience within the queer community to realise slowly that you and all your friends are on the same wavelength, and to come to a gradual understanding that that is because you're all Queer. This is rather like what happens with David and his cousins. Slowly, they come to understand that they all differ from other people in the same way. A society that demonises difference without considering whether the difference deserves to be demonised (does it hurt anyone? is it harmful? or are people simply different?), is all too familiar for anyone who has grown up in the closet.

This book reminded me of “The Outrage” by Willi Hussey, which I read last year, and of “Q” by Christina Dalcher, which I read in 2021. All three books deal with the persecution of people who are labelled “inferior” by the majority. "The Outrage” is far more explicitly Queer, dealing with Queer characters oppressed by laws based on Section 28 legislation, where “Q” explores the dangers of eugenics similarly to “The Chrysalids”. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed reading “The Handmaid's Tale” by Margaret Atwood - another post-apocalyptic novel which sees contaminated land used to threaten those who don't conform - or “Unwind” by Neal Shusternan, another story about a daring flight from a dangerous society.

I first read “The Chrysalids” in 2009, when I was still at primary school. I liked it then, but a lot of it went over my head as a child. I decided to reread it in 2023 because I realised that I probably hadn't understood it fully the first time, and that I couldn't remember much of the plot. I read “Chocky” and “The Kraken Wakes” by the same author last year after high recommendation (which I will now pass on to you) from my family, and loved them, so I thought I ought to reread “The Chrysalids” as well. I enjoyed it, and appreciated it, far more this time! I hope to reread “The Day of the Triffids” and “The Midwich Cuckoos” in 2023 as well. It's been a long time since I read those, too, and I think I'm getting back into John Wyndham's books!

#writeblr #blog #bookblr #book reviews #book recommendation #book review #the chrysalids #john wyndham #science fiction #dystopia

[emilyccannings]

Crime Fiction Book Releases August 2023 PT 5

All Crime Fiction new releases for this August!

If you are like me and are worried you are missing out on all the new releases. I have decided to do a list of releases of all my favourite genres for this month. So here is the Crime Fiction releases for August 2023. Let me know which books take your fancy in the comments below. 17th – The Sentence by Christina Dalcher Info:…

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#2023 Book Releases #books #Crime Fiction #Crime Fiction Book Releases #EmilyLovesLondon #Goodreads

[pinkrabbitsbythenational]

femlandia by christina dalcher is actually one of the most homophobic books i’ve ever read ???

#thoughts

[distributhor-of-happiness]

QI • Christina Dalcher

Un livre saisissant, douloureux, prenant, nécessaire qui m’a tenu en haleine ! Continue reading Untitled

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[thebooksareinthehouse]

La sorellanza, Christina Dalcher

“Questo è il credo di Femlandia. Le nostre comunità, fondate nel secolo scorso dalla grande femminista Win Somers, sono un rifugio per tutte le …La sorellanza, Christina Dalcher

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#Libri #Recensione #sorellanza