Both versions of Hidden Figures have value, but the audience for each is not the same.
Tag: politics
The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová @RoseMetalPress
A deeply intimate and creative endeavor, The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová: A Biographical Collage could work beautifully in a classroom or on your bedside nightstand.
Living with a Wild God #BookReview #Journalism #Memoir
To whom would this book appeal other than Ehrenreich herself?
A Cute Tombstone #bookreview #readwomen #Russia
American readers see what’s unusual, and the details are enough to make the story’s setting and characters vividly “other.”
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman #readwomen #bookreview @thelindywest
Rarely do fat female role models appear in the United States (um, or elsewhere), so I put a hold on a copy at the library.
Explosion
Over 14 stories the message adds up to a strong, unmistakable picture of an oppressive, anti-female Russia
Little Fish
It’s a lot of cut and paste (literally) from 2003-2004, causing the book to tell readers quite a bit of information without showing it, and without trusting readers to pick up on visual ques in a visual medium.
Bitch Planet
“Are you non-compliant? Do you fit in your box? Are you too fat too thin too loud too shy too religious too secular too prudish too sexual… Read more “Bitch Planet”
O, Democracy!
O, Democracy! (Fifth Star Press, April 2014) by Kathleen Rooney *Review by guest Kim Koga Working for the senator has fouled Colleen’s language and dimmed her outlook. But… Read more “O, Democracy!”
Women in Clothes
Women in Clothes (2014, Blue Rider Press) is an anthology unlike any kind before it. At 515 pages, you may wonder what so many women have to say… Read more “Women in Clothes”
