Lives of a quiet desperation

Revolutionary Road – Book or Film?

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road was one of the best books I read last year and I can't believe I'd missed that there is a film based on the book with Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet. So of course I had to rent it.

Where the book fails to capture April Wheeler's all emotions, I think the film highlights 1950s women loneliness better, watching the film, it felt as I was as reading  Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique again. The quiet desperation of many women's lives in the 1950s.
It's a difficult choice to pick the book or the film,they are both exceptionally well executed and I don't think you'd be disappointed picking up either of them.
Josefine

Title: Revolutionary Road Author: Richard Yates ISBN: 978-0-413-75710-4

Herland – Feminist literature

Writing in the US at the start of the 20th century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, tells us about the Utopian society in the Amazon jungle where there exist no men. It is a group of explorer (all men) who finds this remarkable place. Certain that everything will be chaos and mayhem, they are amazed of how well things work and some things even better without men.
The story is short but the message is clear. Women are as good as men, maybe even better. A story worth reading, even today.
Read it love it! (or hate it).
Josefine

My recommendations: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan