A couple of years ago, a movie came and went starring Tina Fey called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the military call letters for WTF. I didn’t even remember the movie until I went looking for reviews for The Taliban Shuffle after I’d read it. I sometimes like to read reviews after I’ve finished a book, just to see if my thinking is in line with the critics’. One thing I discovered while doing so this time, apart from the fact that the book was made in […]
“They thought they could bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.”
Rebecca Traister delves into the history of women’s anger and how it has motivated them and pushed them to fight for their beliefs. It also examines how society feels about women’s anger, and that women are often punished for daring to show their emotions, especially if that emotion is perceived as negative. Men are viewed as powerful and authoritative if they get mad – they’re allowed to, it’s expected, and it must be coming from a reasonable place. When a woman shows her anger she’s […]
Under Construction
This is my year to chip away at the stack of unread books and get down to zero before buying new ones, despite my having had this exact same goal the last two CBRs and privately even before that. So what do I do? Read an entire book at the library to get around that whole “buying new ones” restriction. I feel like I put myself on a liquid diet to lose weight then started chugging condensed milk. Anyway, I picked this up because apparently […]
Well, I WAS With You
I made it rain at the friends of the library book sale just prior to my annual promise not to buy more books until I read everything in my unread stack (almost always 50 books no matter what I do), and like any good binge it was all impulse. I love personal challenge essays (see above – although I will never ever succeed in diminishing that unread stack, my novels apparently breed in captivity) and for two bucks, how bad could this be? (How many […]