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The Coldest City by Antony Johnston
3.0
Enjoyed the wild goose chase and a woman holding her own in the face of sundry sexism but that ending was bollocks. Preferred the prequel.
Flying by Kate Millett
0.0
Such a behemoth of a memoir. I should've adhered to the practices of previous readers and taken my sweet time, absorbing Millet's decadent (occasionally pearl-clutching) work.
I was also pleasantly disoriented by her breaking of the fourth wall. This strategy didn't feel like your usual "writing about writing" moments that seem to be a dime a dozen in more contemporary feminist memoirs; that feel like the writer is stalling on telling you the actual story. I became so grounded in the intimacy of someone telling her to write about x or y (which have already transpired within the text) that I failed to realize that the book I was reading IS the book she's writing.
Maddening perspective from one of the preeminent madwomen of the 20th century.
Gleaned the most from the first 200 or so pages. Second wave feminist anything is certainly out of fashion at the moment but there are so many parallels between ongoing fight for gender justice and Kate Millett's experiences. This book is a toolkit of secrets and feisty wisdom; the rhetoric used to shun her and other LGB women from the feminist movement is damned near identical to that used to shun transwomen today. HB2 initiation is only a stone's throw away from ERA's failure.
I was also pleasantly disoriented by her breaking of the fourth wall. This strategy didn't feel like your usual "writing about writing" moments that seem to be a dime a dozen in more contemporary feminist memoirs; that feel like the writer is stalling on telling you the actual story. I became so grounded in the intimacy of someone telling her to write about x or y (which have already transpired within the text) that I failed to realize that the book I was reading IS the book she's writing.
Maddening perspective from one of the preeminent madwomen of the 20th century.
Gleaned the most from the first 200 or so pages. Second wave feminist anything is certainly out of fashion at the moment but there are so many parallels between ongoing fight for gender justice and Kate Millett's experiences. This book is a toolkit of secrets and feisty wisdom; the rhetoric used to shun her and other LGB women from the feminist movement is damned near identical to that used to shun transwomen today. HB2 initiation is only a stone's throw away from ERA's failure.