I’m reviewing these two books together because despite their opposite takes on speculative futures, they use similar storytelling techniques to describe how women’s lives might be different in both the near, and far future. Naomi Alderman’s The Power imagines a future where women develop an ability to physically harm others with electric shocks. Due to the release and dispersion of an environmental hazard, women begin to develop a “skein” within their bodies which allows them to physically overpower people (men) with a jolt of energy. The strength of […]
Corporate Feminism Isn’t Great (CBR10 BINGO)
CBR 10 BINGO Square: SNUBBED!: Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2017 – lost to The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power’ by Alex Nunns Best for: Folks who claim the feminist title; folks who thought there was something off about Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In.” In a nutshell: Foster picks apart the main themes of Sandberg’s best seller and points out all the ways that it is harmful to feminism; namely, that it doesn’t acknowledge the bigger issues at play, […]
Something IS Okay….and this is it!
WOW! WOW! WOW! I seriously could write WOW 250 times and that would be my review. You will love some of these poems and hate others. And others still you will be WTF?!?! Nothing is Okay by Rachel Wiley is one of those poetry books that you hope will be good after hearing one or two of her readings knowing that, yes of course, Facebook is going to highlight the “strong” poems, the “good” ones, the ones that will tease and make you drool for […]
“We Can Handle Monsters. We Can’t Handle Our Neighbors Doing These Things”
I saw MrsLangdonAlger’s review of this novel and was basically sold on the description of this one as an angry The Lovely Bones. It is but there are also distinct differences – the rapist/killer isn’t a creepy older neighbor but a peer of Ellie’s. The Lovely Bones was sad and beautifully written but by making I Stop Somewhere involve a peer, it is also very much a condemnation of rape culture, a testimony to how early girls learn their lack of importance and how early […]