#kim liggett

[vavuska]

Books similar to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood:

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett and Extasia by Claire Legrand are both distopyas dense of religious fanatism and women's segregation, in which sexism and sexual prejudice are associated with various aspects of religion (e.g. belief, faith, and fundamentalism). This novel shows also how higher religious fundamentalism is associated with internalized misogyny and passive acceptance of traditional gender roles, and both hostile and benevolent sexism.

In The Grace Year the stereotype of a women as source of sin was laid down by the dominant religious authorities before the inception of widespread violence led by women against women, but after all the violence and blood, women learn the importance of sorority, female friendship and start to support and help each others.

The main source of conflicts are ribbons, which, in The Grace Year, are the sign of a women lifestage and the bride's ribbon is a valued price among most of the girls of the age of Tierney, the protagonist. The bride ribbons create a competition between girls to get bachelor’s attention, self-objectification, and humiliation toward each others. Although the competition eventually destroys most of them, this characteristic offers pleasure to those who survived their Grace Year. Tierney learns to survive on her own, learns that the religious values she was thought were wrong and learns also to appreciate her peer's friendship.

Extasia adds witchcraft and supernatural elements, but the main character (Amity) believes deeply in social conservatism—Amity has a preference for stability, conformity and the status quo— which is often a key trait of the religious experience, but also betrays deep feeling of self-hate.

In Extasia, the very patriarchal structures that decry witchcraft – the Puritan church in which the characters lives in and escapes from, the male headship to which the community so desperately cling, the insistence, in the face of repeated violence, on the sin of her mother – are the same structures that inevitably foreclose the options of the lead character, Amity.

To this two, I will mention also The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson. In this novel, Immanuelle, a young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society, discovers dark powers within herself. This book is very similar to Extasia, but not such as good: Amity character is way more believable than Immanuelle and shows way more comprehension of the injustices committed in the name of the religion. The cult in Extasia contains more original elements and believing than the one in The Year Of The Witching, which seems more a copy-paste of mormon radical close-communities, including the elements of racial prejudice. Both Immanuelle and Amity live in the disdain of their own community because of the sins committed by their mother, which were both punished for their love affairs, but when Amity is a girl-of-action and actively search for mercy and witchcraft, Immanuelle is cursed - literally - by passivity and events occurs without her active consents, including the defection of the evil antagonist. Also, female friendship doesn't take place among the main themes and the book suffer a lot of the male love-interest help.

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.

Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.

With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.

Extasia by Claire Legrand

Her name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?

The Year Of The Witching by Alexis Henderson

In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement. But a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still lurking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the journal of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood. Fascinated by the secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her.

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[animula-vagula-blandula]

Le impure, Kim Liggett

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[skyler-reads28]

On Wednesdays we *read* pink 💖

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett - 5/5 ⭐️

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - TBR

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas - 5/5 ⭐️

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue - 3/5 ⭐️

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - TBR

QOTD: What’s your first read of August?

AOTD: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 🔥

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[andreai04]

“We’re all yearning for escape. A respite from the life that’s been chosen for us.”

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[mericmir]

"Bu gece birinin zevcesi oldum.

Sırf oğlanın biri istedi diye..."

#kitap alintisi #erdemyılı #kim liggett #the grace year

[the-final-sentence]

‘I remember everything.’

Kim Liggett, from The Unfortunates

#lit #prose #submission #'the Unfortunates #Kim Liggett

[clarinetkeys]

The fear of growing older, the shame of not bearing sons. The wounds the women held so close that they had to clamp their mouths shut for fear of it slipping out. I saw the hurt and the anger seeping from their pores, mak- ing them lash out at the women around them. Jealous of their daughters. Jealous of the wind that could move over the cliffs without a care in the world. I thought if they cut us open they'd find an endless maze of locks and bolts, dams and bricked-over dead ends. A heart with walls so tall that it slowly suffocates, choking on its own secrets. But here, in this room, my mother and my sisters gath- ered around me, I understand there's so much more to us... a world hidden in the tiny gestures that I could never see before. They were there all along.

-Kim Liggett, The Grace Year (2019)

#womanhood #the grace year #kim liggett #quotes

[inlovewithquotes]

I feel dead inside. But maybe that's exactly what I need to get through this.

- The Grace Year

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[tomatoesforlife12tfl12]

“I slump to the ground, the raw blue silk billowing around me in a perfect circle.”

I decided to draw Tierney from The Grace Year by Kim Liggett!!

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[blessedbysharks]

"You owe me nothing," he whispers. "I love you. I have always loved you. I will always love you. I only hope that in time you will grow to love me, too."

- The Grace Year, Kim Liggett

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[confessionsofabookoholic]

Heaven is a boy in a treehouse, with cold Hands and a warm Heart.

#books & libraries #booklr #books #love story #fiction #quotes #book quote #book blog #bookish #bookworm #the grace year #kim liggett #booklover

[coolladydot]

Anul de grație (recenzie)

E ușor aici să crezi că viața ta nu are sens, că e o urmă minusculă pe care următoarea furtună o poate șterge cu ușurință, dar în loc să mă facă să mă simt neînsemnată, pare să confere tuturor lucrurilor mai mult scop, mai mult sens. Nu sunt nici mai importanta, nici mai puțin importantă ca un răsad mic care încearcă să răzbată prin pământ. Cu toții avem un rol pe lumea asta. Și oricât de mărunt…

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[musingsforthestars]

I think growing up is one very long grace year. I mean it's brutal for girls, right? We place this impossible set of standards on them, and project all of our fear and desire on them, and when they falter, they're entirely to blame.

Interview with Kim Liggett (The Grace Year)

#kim liggett

[estrellavanidad]

Todos estos años, estaba haciendo tiempo, esperando a que comenzara mi auténtica vida, pero mi auténtica vida era aquello, nunca iba a ser mejor, y yo ni siquiera lo sabía.

-Kim Liggett

#el año de gracia #kim liggett #literatura #vida

[thebookishcrypt]

Batch ratings for 2020: Horror/mystery edition

You can find my full reading list on my [Goodreads] so you can look further into the following titles! “My heart is completely shattered.” 6/5 stars “Left this sitting for months.. only to skim the last 40 pages cause I was bored out of my mind.” 1/5 stars 1/5 stars 2/5 stars “This was a Christmas gift from a friend, and I absolutely fell in love with that cover art!It definitely sucked me…

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#abara #cherie priest #horror #kim liggett #lie lie again #scott cawthon #stacy wise #the agony house #the grace year #the silver eyes #tsutomu nihei

[mistwraiths]

2 stars

I feel like I didn't read the same book as everyone else did. This book just felt like pure torture porn. Just misery, suffering, violence upon violence, and while the underlying hope is so thin and buried its nearly nonexistent, nothing actually really changes or makes headway.

This book is just basically Tierney isn't like other girls, so smart so different, then Tierney is nursed to health and falls in love with the enemy poacher who is totally cool with skinning young girls and bottling their body parts etc, and she gets pregnant and goes back to the girls to help them, and then goes home to another man who loves her, realizes maybe other women weren't being hateful just trying to tell her things in code, loves the other dude, has her baby, and maybe dies.

Don't get me wrong, this book absolutely shows the horror of misogyny but there are several other books that do it BETTER. Plus, I just hate reading about women being nasty, hateful, and violent towards each other. There's a quote I DID like that went "We hurt each other because it's the only way we're permitted to show our anger." But again, if there was more to this book that spoke more and did more, it would have been better.

The romance just felt so UNNECESSARY and the pregnancy too.

Also, like the grace year just literally being these girls put it in a camp and drinking hemlock tainted water and going half-insane was kind of wild. I just also don't understand why the women can't just be like pass secrets or clues about the Grace Year. There's clearly secret meetings and secret ways to communicate already going on. And for the older generations to just burn everything instead of not trying to make things better for the next girls makes me mad. I hate the whole "I suffered and turned out fine/lived, so you can too" mentality. I understand that there's women who are trying at least towards Tierney but damn I wish there was more.

Honestly the poachers literally being paid by the village itself to like skin and kill their girls and like the talk about ingesting/eating them was like something I'd like more addressed and to see changes. The outskirts and everything too I'd like to learn more about. But no, here's 200+ pages of suffering. Also, Hans being like YOU WANTED ME about Tierney when she was SEVEN was disgusting.

The writing was pretty but that doesn't make the slog of this book easier to get through.

#the grace year #kim liggett #steph's book review #steph reads #book review #2023 reads