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It's possible that I bought this because I liked the cover. I used to buy a random book in an airport on my way home from traveling, usually nonfiction. I liked this. It's about literary criticism. The best part might be the verbal sparring between these women and their other contemporaries. They didn't hold a lot back.

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I really wanted to like this, but it just wasn‘t as engaging as I was hoping. Never mind. Group biographies are a tricky beast. So hard to get right, but so hard to pin down what the problem is when they don‘t quite work.

Next nonfiction read (thank you library!)

I loved this book of mini biographies of smart, sharp and talented women writers from Dorothy Parker to Janet Malcolm. It was interesting to read about their lives and careers as well as their relationships to each other and feminism. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wine, my book and this view from the living room. I don‘t ever want to leave this house 💚💚

I must confess that much of the information in this book sailed over my head. Sharp is about women in the public eye who broke barriers with their writing, wit and intelligence. The author writes about such icons as Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, and Nora Ephron. Women who today might be called ‘thought leaders‘. Much discussion of feminism and how it evolved. Dry at times. 3.5 out of 5

Daria! Thank you for the fabulous and thoughtful #galentinesday gift! Galentine‘s has become something close to my heart (I was out late on a Galentine‘s date with some friends last night) and try to do something each year to celebrate (whether that‘s in a big or small way). Much love to you, friend!

A compilation of mini biographies of women with sharp opinions and the relationships between these women. If the reader isn‘t interested in journalism, literature, or feminism, this will seem dry fare. However, these were intelligent women who had something of importance to say and they didn‘t feel the need to sugar coat it. Most had an ambivalent relationship with feminism.

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This just in. Looking forward to it, but at first glance the ladies in here aren‘t as diverse as they could be. It is acknowledged in the intro, but that‘s it, just acknowledged.

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What Arendt found most intriguing about Varnhagen was that Varnhagen had found a way to make being different a kind of a boon.

I invested 4:01:34 (into Chapter 5; 35% done overall). The subject matter is theoretically interesting; but I‘m just not getting into it. Maybe another time. I‘m working too hard in real life to force myself to read anything that‘s not totally floating my boat. I deserve to be entertained by my reading!

A book of essays about Sharp iconic women& Susan Sontag essays so excited to read these books great addition to my library .

From the preface:
“I gathered the women in this book under the sign of a compliment that every one of them received in their lives: they were called sharp.”

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Happy pub day to Michelle Dean's Sharp, one of my most anticipated books of the year. I'm halfway through and loving it, it's a fascinating survey of 20th century public intellectual women. It focuses on their relationships with each other as well as with feminism. I also appreciate that it occasionally dunks on Norman Mailer.