Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly Nonfiction/Feminism/Civil Rights 392 pages Published September 2018 This book goes in the same category as One Person, No Vote for me. I knew a lot of the general principles, but not the details, the statistics, the true scope of the problem. This book delves … Continue reading
Library Loot Wednesday!
Just two books this week: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger and And The Ocean Was Our Sky, which looks gorgeous. I was a little amused that I turned in Rage Becomes Her (posting my review tomorrow!) when I was picking up Good and Mad. Just traded one book about women’s anger for … Continue reading
Book Review: Seafire
Seafire by Natalie C. Parker Young Adult/Fantasy 374 pages Published August 2018 First, Caledonia Styx is an AMAZING name, and the Mors Navis is another fantastic name. I had to google it – it basically translates to Death Ship. Possibly Ship of the Dead. Something to that effect. Seafire is the first book in a … Continue reading
Book Review: Toil & Trouble
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft Edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe YA Anthology/Fantasy 405 pages Published August 2018 Toil & Trouble was a much-hyped anthology of YA stories, and I think it lived up to that hype. I really enjoyed almost every story in this book – only one or … Continue reading
Book Review: Feminasty
Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson Comedic Memoir/Feminism 280 pages Published September 2018 Comedic collection of essays about feminism? Yeah, I’m in. I was actually unaware of Erin Gibson prior to this book; she’s apparently pretty popular as one of the personalities on a … Continue reading
Book Review: One Person, No Vote
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Nonfiction/Politics/Civil Rights 270 pages Published September 2018 I already knew a lot of the basics of voter suppression before picking up this book – the closing of polling centers, limiting early voting, requiring photo IDs that a lot of people don’t … Continue reading