patiently waiting for the next Marlon James book...
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Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her …
You've Got to Be Kidding Me!: Perimenopause Symptoms, Stages & Strategies" is the go-to, take-anywhere …
The nerd in me was really excited to read a perimenopause book, thankfully I have two others to follow up on that will hopefully be more informative and less redundant. Some positives - she stresses advocating for yourself and highlights key topics related to perimenopause. I am sure it will be useful to many people and it is a pretty quick read.
Things I didn’t enjoy: -Unfortunately this felt like reading a blog post or click-bait news article. It was like a bad combo of self help and popsci. -I don’t need someone to remind me constantly about something they wrote about in a previous chapter. I get that people may jump around on topics of interest, but maybe just briefly reference the chapter number if you are that concerned that the reader may have forgotten. Or omg is that a play on perimenopause brain fog?! Anyways, overall super …
The nerd in me was really excited to read a perimenopause book, thankfully I have two others to follow up on that will hopefully be more informative and less redundant. Some positives - she stresses advocating for yourself and highlights key topics related to perimenopause. I am sure it will be useful to many people and it is a pretty quick read.
Things I didn’t enjoy: -Unfortunately this felt like reading a blog post or click-bait news article. It was like a bad combo of self help and popsci. -I don’t need someone to remind me constantly about something they wrote about in a previous chapter. I get that people may jump around on topics of interest, but maybe just briefly reference the chapter number if you are that concerned that the reader may have forgotten. Or omg is that a play on perimenopause brain fog?! Anyways, overall super repetitive. - It truly bums me out that a book on this topic uses incorrect anatomical terms. Especially since she stresses the importance of understanding these terms and talking about your health. See page 164: “…and labia minora (your inner vagina) to become less responsive.” Noooo :( that is not your vagina and especially not your inner vagina.
I have more to say but I’ll leave it at that and will hopefully find a more useful book on the topic.
You've Got to Be Kidding Me!: Perimenopause Symptoms, Stages & Strategies" is the go-to, take-anywhere guide that helps women survive …
You've Got to Be Kidding Me!: Perimenopause Symptoms, Stages & Strategies" is the go-to, take-anywhere …
I am about a third of the way through this. It’s pretty basic and repetitive so far. Also I don’t need to know what brand of vitamins she’s taking. I feel like I am reading blog posts and not a book.
A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death …
I, on the other hand, have had so little love that it seems to me like a delicate jewel, and I’m terrified of losing it. My fear is not just that I’ll misplace it, like an earring on a night of sex or sweaty dancing, it’s that it will evaporate and vanish like alcohol.
— Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell, Pablo Gerardo Camacho (Page 309)
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 …
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy …
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy …
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim …
In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet …
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (Japanese: 芽むしり仔撃ち, Hepburn: Memushiri Kouchi); also known as "Pluck the Bud and Destroy the …
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken …
A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death …
another book I had paused on so I could give it more of my attention during summer. I’m getting totally sucked into this story now. I keep saying 'ok last page and then I'm going to sleep' but then I’m 10 more pages in.
another book I had paused on so I could give it more of my attention during summer. I’m getting totally sucked into this story now. I keep saying 'ok last page and then I'm going to sleep' but then I’m 10 more pages in.
In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, …
We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. …
I had to pause reading for a couple of months ago so I could give it more attention and focus later. It was nice to come back to and finish. My brain was so confused when I started reading it because it was so familiar but I knew the book just came out (I had to search and realized it is based on novella he wrote in the 80s but never felt like he had finished it). I enjoyed this story and always appreciate Murakami's writing style and imagination. The only thing that wasn't my favorite was his overuse of his technique where characters are in conversation about something confusing, and they repeat/summarize the other person as they try to understand what is happening. "So, what you are saying is..." He does this in his other work but seemed extra. It did not over shadow the things I liked about …
I had to pause reading for a couple of months ago so I could give it more attention and focus later. It was nice to come back to and finish. My brain was so confused when I started reading it because it was so familiar but I knew the book just came out (I had to search and realized it is based on novella he wrote in the 80s but never felt like he had finished it). I enjoyed this story and always appreciate Murakami's writing style and imagination. The only thing that wasn't my favorite was his overuse of his technique where characters are in conversation about something confusing, and they repeat/summarize the other person as they try to understand what is happening. "So, what you are saying is..." He does this in his other work but seemed extra. It did not over shadow the things I liked about this story though.
