Wow. I was not ready to read this book. I borrowed it from the library, but this would be a book I would buy and reread slowly and write all over the margins.

It is a hard read because you need to know things because she doesn't explain and assumes you know. I know I faired better than most readers because I am well versed in Shakespeare, John Calvin, John Locke, the Bible and theology. I also know a good portion of everything she wrote about, but there was some stuff that went over my head because I didn't want to research right then and there. It is a book to be taken slowly and ponder.

It's good, just realize it is a book that you will chew and ponder and still not really sure what she is saying and that is the point. The essays are written in a way that you the reader can either agree or disagree is her own opinions while you decides your own. At times she becomes more of a professor instead of a writer and vice versa.