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I can already say this will be my favourite of 2018.

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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I’ve read a lot of good books this year, but I feel confident that Her Body and Other Parties will be my favourite read of 2018. Carmen Maria Machado’s collection of short stories is nothing short of perfection, and brings everything I was looking for in a year of reading mostly feminist, female-identified, and woman-positive fiction writers. Every story in this collection is deliciously good, though, like many, my personal favourites are “The Husband Stitch,” “Real Women Have Bodies,” and “Eight Bites.” My least favourite was “Especially Heinous” but only because it was insanely long, (much like the series it mimics) and once I got the […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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Buzzfeed’s book reviews have never steered me wrong, so when one of their lists suggested The Power as a must-read Dystopian novel, I felt I should give it a go. And it was WORTH IT. Disturbing, mind-bending, and surprising, The Power feels like this generation’s answer to The Handmaids Tale. I was not surprised to read that Alderman thanks Margaret Atwood in her acknowledgements because the book follows an updated take on the The Handmaid’s Tale structure. Complete with excerpts from fictional archaeological findings to the mind blowing epilogue and chapters counting down to an unknown coming, The Power is riveting and twisted. At the start of […]

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6/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

Toxic

Almost Love by Louise O'Neill

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Louise O’Neill is an accomplished Young Adult writer with two award winning novels under her belt, Almost Love is her first foray in Adult fiction. ( Her third YA book; a feminist re-telling of the little mermaid – The Surface Breaks is due out in May 2018 ) Almost Love follows Sarah Fitzpatrick in both her past and present. Then: In a toxic and manipulative relationship with Matthew and now: In the present day, Sarah can be found mistreating her current boyfriend Oisín and longing after a man that made her no promises. O’Neill is an unashamedly feminist writer and […]

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4/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Evolutionary Biology is on notice

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine

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3.5 stars I like Cordelia Fine and her work. Part of that, I’m willing to admit, may be confirmation bias — she clearly identifies herself as a feminist and is very upfront that her work is reflective of that viewpoint. But I was also trained as a scientist, and from that perspective my position is that many of her critics and detractors (and I’ll note here that for brevity’s sake I’m not including in this category people who have fundamentally sexist views and who probably simply cannot be reached) have crucially misunderstood the overarching theme of Fine’s research. Testosterone Rex […]

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2/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

feminism wrapped in a glittery pink bow? #nothanks

Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett

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At a time when gender politics are making headlines in every major newspaper every day Feminist Fight Club should be a must read, but I’m not so sure it is. Bennett’s fight is against the patriarchal construct not against individuals but what that then does is reduce her ability to discuss topics that are really at the heart of workplace sexism; sexual harassment and pay disparity. Neither topic gets but the  briefest of mentions. Bennett states that the Feminist Fight Club is about creating a more egalitarian environment for everyone and that is that stead she has created a set […]

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1/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

A useful little guide

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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This book arose from a letter to a friend. The friend had asked Adichie how to raise a feminist daughter and this book is Adichie’s answer. As books go it is fairly short, but I suppose that for a letter it is quite long. If you have read Adichie before (and if you haven’t you really should) her voice is strong and flowing in  this letter and I enjoyed reading it. I wanted to buy ten copies and just throw them at anybody who’s expecting. Even if you don’t have children I find that there is value in this. All […]

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12/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

Put a Ring on it

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister

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“But it’s an error to assume all marriages are good marriages, and to fall into the narrative trap laid by Disney and Shakespeare, the one in which a wedding is the satisfying conclusion of a story.” (146) Rebecca Traister immediately won points for naming her book, All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016) after a Beyonce song. I found it–like so many of the books I read this year–through NPR’s list of Best Books from 2016. It is a serious look at the institution of marriage and being single in America in modern times. It includes […]

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12/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

Terrifyingly timely

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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There’s been a whole bunch of reviews posted for this book already, so I’m not going to spend a lot of time recapping the plot in my own words. Goodreads can help me out here: Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to the food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an […]

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5/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:36 |


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