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dearreader · 1 month

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bro these girls are so fucked

#kelly babels #kelly reads #the grace year

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vavuska · 9 months

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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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skyler-reads28 · 9 months

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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 · 11 months

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

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willowflowerr · 1 year

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In 2022 I set out to read 22 books. 22 simply because I read 21 last year and it went with the year.

This year, I managed to read 30 books, a lifetime record for me!! To celebrate, I wanted to share my top 6 favorites, in no particular order 📚

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (9.5/10)

2. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (10/10)

3. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett (9/10)

4. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (9.5/10)

5. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (9/10)

6. All The Young Dudes by MissKingBean89 (10/10)

Turns out I’m gay and like YA gay love stories, witchcraft, and mythology. Who knew 💗💜💙

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mericmir · 11 months

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"Bu gece birinin zevcesi oldum.

Sırf oğlanın biri istedi diye..."

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

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escapes-into-moonlight · 1 year

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Best “The Grace Year” Quotes

“This is the one night a year the women are allowed to congregate without the men. You’d think it would be our opportunity to talk, share, let it all out. Instead, we stand isolated and petty, sizing each other up, jealous for what the other one has, consumed by hollow desires. And who benefits from all this one-uppery? The men. We outnumber them two-to-one, and yet here we are, locked in a chapel, waiting for them to decide our fate. I wonder if that’s the real magic trick” – p43

“And as soon as the words left his traitorous lips, the life I knew was over. No longer would I be able to pass unnoticed in the lanes. There would be no more dirt allowed beneath my nails, no more scuffed boots and sun-tangled hair. No more days lost in the woods, lost in the curiosities of my own mind. My life, my body, now belonged to another”

“Hope spreading like a balm over an angry rash. It’s not the rebellion of my dreams, it’s not a show of strength like the girl possessed, but maybe it’s the start of something… something bigger than ourselves” – p379

“The things we do to girls. Whether we put them on pedestals only to tear them down, or use them for parts and holes, we’re all complicit in this. But everything touches everything else, and I have to believe that some good will come out of all this destruction. The men will never end grace year. But maybe we can” – p381

“I used to dread the full moon. I saw it as a dark wild place where madness dwells. But I think the full moon shows us who we really are… what we’re meant to be” – p397

“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” – p400

“The wounds the women held so close that they had to clamp their mouths shut for fear of it slipping out” – p400

“Your eyes are wide open but you see nothing”

#bookaddict #booklr #bookish #book quotes #book blog #quotes #beautiful words #the grace year #dystopia #feminism #feminist #reading

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blessedbysharks · 1 year

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But here, in this room, my mother and my sisters gathered around me, I understand there's so much more to us

#the grace year #booklr #bookblr #bookworm #reading #books #bookish #book recommendations #book reccs

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annelisreadingroom · 2 months

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Do you own multiple copies of the same book? I usually don't. Sometimes I may own an English copy and a Finnish copy because my mom and my grandma can only read novels in Finnish. Sometimes I buy the Finnish editions for them.

#books #booklr #bookblogger #book photography #ya books #foreign edition #finnish edition #the grace year #ya dystopia #pink books

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dearreader · 2 months

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i personally think kiersten deserves to *** *** ** *** **** **** * ****.

#kelly babels #kelly reads #the grace year

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clarinetkeys · 1 year

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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

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jamiesresources · 2 years

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Heart-shaped face, a small red strawberry mark under her right eye. Delicate features, like mine, but there’s nothing delicate about this girl. There’s a fierceness in her steel-gray eyes. Her dark hair is shorn close to her scalp.

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

#the grace year #quote #musings #character musing

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inlovewithquotes · 2 years

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

- The Grace Year

#literature #quotes #books & libraries #book quotes #life quotes #surviving #being dead inside #kim liggett #the grace year

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skyler-reads28 · 2 months

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Got a second bookshelf and spent the day reorganizing!

#acotar series #throne of glass #the vanishing half #weyward #the song of achilles #cemetery boys #aristotele and dante #the invisible life of addie larue #black sun #the priory of the orange tree #eleanor and park #the grace year #bookshelf

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itsmentalillness · 1 year

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rant about how my class is absolute shit 🤩

tw // purity culture; banned books???, the south in general?????

thinking about how I went to english today and got made fun of because NYC kids are so privileged they think things like purity balls and ring ceremonies are just things from Law and Order and not a real thing that i’ve experienced secondhand and have seen many times

I was discussing the parallels between the “Grace Year” and southern purity culture and my class laughed so hard at me. they said that things like that only happen in crazy cults in the 80’s and they probably aren’t even real. like I know people who have purity rings. I know people who make vows to their family and church. im not lying and making shit up.

the same thing happened when I talked about banned books.

i’ve never read “to kill a mockingbird” because it was banned so when I mentioned that to my teacher and someone over heard, someone accused me of lying. I said it was a very real thing I had to deal with and the whole class made fun of me for just not being able to get over it cause I don’t live there anymore.

#jo’s life updates #purity culture #nyc kids suck ass #banned books #to kill a mockingbird #the grace year

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novalove14 · 2 years

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Recently started House of Leaves, and while the whole essay thing kinda makes my neurodivergent brain freak out, I love the concept and the whole added ramblings in the footnotes. Excited to see where this goes. Might review when I’m done but that might take 70 years.

Now if someone wants to read my review of The Grace Year (yikes), lmk I will very passionately write a 20 page critique cause goddamn I have so much to say about it x.x

#book review #bookworm #booklr #book blog #house of leaves #the grace year #booktok #booksbooksbooks #books

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