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I love a feminist essay collection, but this one just isn‘t working for me. I‘m finding it overly dense and a bit circuitous, such that I lose interest about halfway through each essay. I‘ve reached the 25% point of the book without improvement so I‘m moving on.

I just noticed a certain colorful trend in my current reads, kinda loving it
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Reading about portrayals of women in various forms of media while waiting to chop all my hair off (ok, most, I‘ve never been able to pull off the pixie cut). 💇🏻📚😄

I‘ve not been the greatest at sticking to my planned #tbr lists each month, and that‘s ok. Here‘s my stack of #mttbr reads for May. I‘ll more than likely change it up as the month goes on, but 2 of these will def be read for book clubs. 😄

The most thorough look at how women are presented in film I‘ve read. Chocano combines searing insights and personal anecdotes to explore women‘s roles in film and what it means for society. #nonfiction #essays #feminism

I just started this, but I can already tell it‘s something I‘ll be thinking about for a while.

Carina Chocano is whip smart & though these essays cover serious feminist issues,at times she is super funny.She has freelanced a lot, struggled , and “gets” the gig economy.She zeros in on our Pop culture world & how some say it‘s better for women but often she shows how they have just tilted the lens.As a mother, she doesn‘t shy from taking on the Disney Princess empire .The last essay that brings up Virginia Woolf scores extra points for me.

Mini book haul! The tagged book is by one of the writers I found in the Nasty Women essay anthology, Carina Chocano, and I'm excited to read more from her.

Carina has a way with words, reinforcing opinions I have about the feminine ideal through a media lens. I enjoyed her outlook on what it means to be a woman in the public eye, examining in depth the fictional characters we know & love such as Alice, Maleficent, and Elsa. And y‘all know me, I like my Disney princesses. #amreading #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #booknerdigans #bookblogger #tsundoku #greatreads #readmorebooks #coolgirlsread

The girl writer and her relationship to the marketplace are complex. Which identity is hot now, which hallway should you choose? The fixation on crazy-girl artists makes me uncomfortable, too. It is such a cliche, after all, so gooey and indulgent, so irritatingly girly. When have feminine genius and madness NOT been linked?

After hearing about this essay collection on All the Books! I knew I had to check it out. The intersection of pop culture and feminism is one of my sweet spots. But I found this collection to be too self-serious for my taste. I prefer my feminist essays more in the earnest, down-to-earth, hilarious Lindy West/Caitlin Moran vein. But it was a worthwhile if not entirely enjoyable read, with lots of good food for thought. #GIVEAWAYREALTALK @Liberty

I am hearing great things about this one so I‘m adding it to my bookshelf!

First day of October outside with this read and the Sunday Times.

My overdrive #tbr - I'm hoping I can actually read all of them before they are due... but the likelihood of that is pretty small. 😫
I'm basically terrible with ebooks - more often than not I forget about them. Physical library books have more urgency - even though I can usually renew those. Ugh. I need a cognitive recalibration for library ebooks, methinks. 😄

waiting room reads

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The author explores the representation of women in pop culture and the media- from Playboy to Disney, and Bewitched to The Bachelor. She drives her points home with historical contexts and personal experiences. She is funny and, even though she eviscerates some of my favorite movies, I enjoyed her essays.

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