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"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History," the quote everyone knows or more than likely misquoted. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich takes the one sentence from a paper she had written in 1976, a sentence that was more of a throw away, and wrote a book.
What Howard Zinn did for the voices that were not heard, LTU does it in the same way, writing about the Women that we don't really talk about with a few we know every well to help shape the timeline. The books starts with three authors: de Pizan, Woolf and Stanton and there respective works. Then moves the book into a somewhat brief run down of women who help shaped history to what we currently have now, better or for worse.
What Howard Zinn did for the voices that were not heard, LTU does it in the same way, writing about the Women that we don't really talk about with a few we know every well to help shape the timeline. The books starts with three authors: de Pizan, Woolf and Stanton and there respective works. Then moves the book into a somewhat brief run down of women who help shaped history to what we currently have now, better or for worse.
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I had a hard time taking the author seriously, the way she wrote about herself in mythic-like proportions of when being a teenager and being enlightened about tidying, I should have stop there but continued to "hate-read" the entire thing. While I do understand that cleaning everything once, like on the show Hoarders, makes sense - do it all at once, see everything you own at once and deal with it.
Some of her ideas are crazy and as the reader you can tell that no one visits her home overnight or that she has kids and letting everything dry on the veranda is how she lives her life.
On page 90 she wrote this "Keep only the books that will make you happy to see them on your shelves, the ones that you really love. This includes this book, too. If you don't feel any joy when you hold it in your hand, I would rather you discard it."
Luckily, I borrowed this book from the library.
Some of her ideas are crazy and as the reader you can tell that no one visits her home overnight or that she has kids and letting everything dry on the veranda is how she lives her life.
On page 90 she wrote this "Keep only the books that will make you happy to see them on your shelves, the ones that you really love. This includes this book, too. If you don't feel any joy when you hold it in your hand, I would rather you discard it."
Luckily, I borrowed this book from the library.
So good. Jeanette Winterson focuses on jealously by flushing out the background of the Best Friends and it makes the story deeper, sadder and heart-breaking, but it helps explain the actions hat set in motion the outcomes of the story. Set in modern day, in London and New Bohemia and with a DeLorean and a video game called "A Gap in Time, Winterson creates a plausible story to Shakespeare's tale of jealousy and forgiveness.
Only disappointment, the story just ends much the same way as the original, no hint of the future or if the past will come around again - maybe that is the point.
Deeply moving, sad and hopeful.
Trigger Warning:
Choking and Rape (pages 82-85).
Only disappointment, the story just ends much the same way as the original, no hint of the future or if the past will come around again - maybe that is the point.
Deeply moving, sad and hopeful.
Trigger Warning:
Choking and Rape (pages 82-85).
Surprised how good it was but at the same time Sittenfeld (I felt) went a little overboard in making sure it was the modern day and inclusive. Fun read.
