| No Images? Click here   Our word of the day comes from Merriam-Webster this week: It is "lief."  In the past year, we read dozens of brilliant books by women. We read insightful essays that cut to the heart of the human experience, and we read lyrical short stories that moved us to laughter and tears. We read epic novels that contained unimaginably capacious worlds. Here are 23 of the most unforgettable books by women that we read recently. Life as a Jane Austen fan can be, occasionally, infuriating. Male classmates deride her as subliterary fluff, pop culture uses her as a shorthand for romance novels, and, for women, professing to love her turns you into a cat-possessing cliché. The latest insult, however, is the most egregious yet: Alt-right thinkers have appropriated Austen as a symbol of white nationalism, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Nicole M. Wright. Also, did you know that Jane Austen apparently made up two fake marriages, for the lulz?   "The Handmaid's Tale" TV show is easily the book adaptation we're most excited for this year. April 26 can't get here soon enough, but we do have this trailer to tide us over.        We talk a lot about boss ladies who break barriers here in HuffPost's Culture Shift email, and now we're giving you the chance to be a true bawse. We teamed up with Refinery 29 and Penguin Random House to give one lucky person $2,500 cash and a signed copy of Lilly Singh's How To Be A Bawse. Singh's book offers the definitive guide to being a BAWSE (read: "a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they’ve fought through it all and made it out the other side.") Enter below for a chance to win   Let's talk about punctuation. President Donald Trump’s extremely active Twitter feed constantly presents us with profound questions about the nature of language. Why does he deploy so many exclamation points? Use strings of repetitive synonyms? End so many tweets with “Sad!”? Not since Fifty Shades of Grey has the nation been forced to spend so much energy close-reading text composed with so little precision and care. Actually, that’s not fair: E.L. James’s repurposed vampire fan fiction was far more thoughtfully crafted than President Trump’s body of tweets. Exhibit A: Trump’s typically baffling use of quotation marks.   Kyna Uwaeme, a Nigerian-American woman who was raised Catholic, had little knowledge of Muslim culture and tradition before this project. However, between hearing news about the violence inflicted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram in her parents’ homeland and the Islamophobia that plagues the U.S., Uwaeme wanted to increase her knowledge of the religion and those who observe it.      1. South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion     Level up. Read this email and be THE most interesting person at your dinner party. Like what you see? Share with a friend. Can't get enough? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: HuffPost's Entertainment newsletter and HuffPost Must Reads.                   
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Trump’s bizarre misuse of quotation marks
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