If you have ever read any of my CBR Reviews the last several years, you know that Jane Austen is my literary ride or die. I don’t typically read Jane Austen fanfic (with the marvelous exception of Longbourne), but I *do* read a lot of scholarship and intellectual thinkpieces that are not mansplaining Austen to wimminfolk. And that is how fate led my husband to point out The Making of Jane Austen to me at our local library and caused me to glint with recognition. […]
Maybe you’re trying to distract yourself.
You know when you have a long stretch of five star reviews and you start to wonder, are my standards super low? Does everything delight me? Am I some kind of a hack reader that just loves everything that passes in front of my eyes? Well, if you have these concerns, may I highly recommend The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter to you. It will alleviate all of those suspicions, because it’s seriously the worst, and no one could possibly like it. How on earth […]
I wanted more from this academic book about the fluidity of male sexuality.
I picked this up on a whim after a friend reviewed it on Goodreads, and I saw that my library actually had a copy. It was a really interesting reading experience, and overall, I thought Ward did a nice job explaining her points, but I also felt that it was a case of her having opinions (that are maybe right) but not enough evidence to back any of it up. She takes all these incidences and cultural stories and tries to work them into a […]
A must-read for academics everywhere.
I’m an academic aspiring for a tenure-track job, so I’ve done a lot of reading about the subject. A LOT. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a lot of doomy things to say about academia in general, as does almost every other internet site. And for good reason. The adjunctification of the academic job market in the humanities has been slowly unveiled to reveal a horrific system of exploitation that is eliminating faculty jobs and relying on highly educated adjuncts for a fraction of worthy […]