[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_08 October 8, 2024H. Arendt, A report of the Banality of Evil, 1963 The message of the book is "evil is nothing special," the "bad guys" don't feel evil, and there is a subtle...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_07 October 7, 2024The children’s train, Viola Ardone, 2019 For me, seeing a child on the cover of a book or reading some reference to childhood in the title represents a sufficient...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_06 October 5, 2024Woman, Race & Class, Angela Y. Davis, 1981 “Ah, sorry,” a friend said to me. “so, in the hierarchy of importance, who comes before white men, Blacks, or women?” It was...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_05 October 4, 2024Take courage, Samantha Ellis, 2017 In the wake of the enthusiasm aroused in me by “Agnes Grey” and the discovery of the incredible third Bronte sister, I visited the...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_04 October 3, 2024Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte, 1847 At 15, I went crazy for "Jane Eyre". At 18, I became a huge fan of "Wuthering Heights"; also thanks to George Bataille's essay,...
[100 Challenge] Roberta Gattel_03 October 2, 2024Eleny or Nobody, Galanaki Rea, 2003 “Her effort to understand made her rightfully a passenger on the ship of fools. And on board this adrift ship, she faced long...