I wasn’t sure how to feel about this book! I’m just going to separate this by things I liked and things I didn’t. Things I liked: * The honesty by which this book addressed some of our worst internal thoughts. * Connected to this, the fact that the characters don’t have to be perfect just because they are main characters. * The complex perspectives included covering who would be affected if any kind of personhood amendment for fetuses was passed: this doesn’t just cover people […]
Infuriating but Necessary
People who write exposes on great societal injustice walk a fine line: they must mix their facts and figures with enough interest to keep reader’s interest, temper their own rage at what they’ve found with a rational enough tone that they won’t be dismissed as “radical”, and often find a way to insert a little hope lest too many people avoid their book entirely because it’s “too depressing”. I’ve found a handful of books that have walked this line expertly. Books like Michelle Alexander’s The […]
If The Lovely Bones Was a Raging Takedown of Rape Culture
As described in the title of this post, I Stop Somewhere reads like a version of The Lovely Bones as a raging, mournful takedown of rape culture. The author notes in her acknowledgement and her website that she wrote this partly out of anger, and I could tell and was grateful for that. One of the things that #MeToo being more visible has brought us is the increased visibility of women’s rage at what has been happening to and continues to happen to us. I don’t think […]
Demons and Diversity…Out West
It’s going to be hard for me to describe this book, let alone review it. I really liked it! But it’s hard to put a pin in. First, I’ll say that it took me awhile to finally get to this book. I bought it when it was on sale through a BookBub email and I saw it had very good reviews, but then every time I’d look at my Kindle and read the description I’d lose interest because I really don’t read westerns. And this […]