Margie Orford Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Margie Orford

Cruel Optimism as Lauren Berlant wrote, describing the desperate clinging to the fantasy of the 'good life' despite it being patently lost/stolen/destroyed

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@DChaloner got all of those - the book is Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

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@ABrookfield1 @JaneDunnAuthor Man's Search for Meaning 1946 by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome

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@Zoe_Flood The body keeps the score...Bessel van der Kolk

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So thrilled that Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for literature! Have been a fan for decades. The Years was just marvellous - as is everything I have read by her - clear-eyed and so true to women's experience

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❤ This marvellous poem in Hymnal, an episodic memoir in verse by @JuliaBell just stays with me...the vertigo of looking back into the darkness of childhood https://t.co/y5vPJUCXxP

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Insightful, intriguing, devastating: Margie Orford's 'The Eye of the Beholder' https://t.co/PnvfvKnDRK

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Patterns in the grass: The Perfect Golden Circle, by Benjamin Myers, reviewed https://t.co/FuIDx7vkrQ via @spectator

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OH, WILLIAM by Elizabeth Strout is a brain-spy level genius book of the life of a woman writing❤️

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The heroine Cora Berger is indeed a nod to John Berger @declanburke His Ways of Seeing has informed all my crime writing and my feminism. Thanks for this 'a hard-hitting, affecting novel about women who refuse to allow men off the hook' @canongatebooks https://t.co/XTWGOzqWzc