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Fabulous 💀

Revisado: 11-19-24

I loved Black's first book, and adore this one even more. To hear her read her own words is such a treat and experience. This is one of my best reads ever. Thank you Sue.

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Death, history and Shakespeare 🫀💀🩸

Revisado: 08-11-24

I really enjoyed this! It tickled my nerd perfectly with its combination of death, history and Shakespeare. The structure works well and the research is there. It's too bad however, that it seems to have gone through the editing without much care. It contains so much repetition, as if each single paragraph is supposed to be read separately. Somewhere in the middle I started to feel slightly aggravated, as I really think this book deserves better! Regardless of this sloppiness, I thoroughly recommend it! 💀

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Informative and accessible

Revisado: 08-06-24

This is a neat presentation for laymen of ecosystem services. It succinctly presents different natural processes, our dependence of them, and our disruptive impacts. I recommend it to anyone who have the least interest in understanding our role in the biosphere. As I have a MSc in biology, none of it was news to me, but it was nevertheless a pleasant read. And the book is not written for me, it's for everyone else.

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Heavy entertainment, thin facts 🫤

Revisado: 08-02-24

I thoroughly enjoyed Unmentionable, but found this second book superfluous in content and inferior in style. The text is structured as a dialogue between a contemporary (very) american woman and the narrator. This renders it I'll structured, hard to follow and right out tiresome. The book did make me snicker a couple of times, however, the many grave incorrectnesses especially regarding anything concerning biology (e.g. what a pesticide is and does) brought me right out of it. Not really worth the time reading.

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Absolutely hilarious 😂

Revisado: 07-30-24

If you are looking for a deep dive, and nuanced account of womens lives during the Victorian era, this book is not it. If you are however looking for deep belly-laughs while also learning a bit more about the lives of your foremothers, then dive in. I could barely put this book down, the wording is poignant, personal and hilarious. I will forever more speak of my vagina as "the sacred vestibule".

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We deserve better 🦓

Revisado: 07-22-24

I REALLY wanted to love this book and give it high praise, instead, I find it a shallow, myopic marketing pamphlet for the authors. As a hEDS sufferer, I was looking for an informative book with intersectional perspectives, firmly grounded in science, reflected in personal experience. That is NOT what this is. Instead it's navel gazing, embarrassingly badly written, swamped with repetition, and worst of all, preaching pseudoscientific treatments of medical issues. This is inexcusable as it may put people at severe medical risk. Yes, the general medical system is deeply flawed and severely lacking in knowledge of, and effective treatments for EDS sufferers, the solution is however not to have your aura photographed and drink diluted tea. Educate yourself, make sure the references are founded in best practise scientific research, and find a doctor who actually does have competence to treat you. It's painstakingly hard work, but sadly the only option. We deserve better.

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Depply moving performance

Revisado: 03-16-24

Wow, this was amazing. So dark, gritty, ugly and gloriously performed, that I feel myself slightly out of breath. This tragedy has everything, violent abuse, mental illness, sex, death, alcoholism, rape, and of course, our deepest human desires of feeling loved and secure.

This was my first meeting with Tennessee Williams, and it certainly gave me a desire for more.

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I want MOOOOOOOOORE 🏳️‍🌈🥰💖🦄

Revisado: 03-16-24

I've just binged this, and it made me so happy! I'm a queer person living with my queer chosen family, and this kind of contemporary silly, static but also profound and masterfully told representation brings me so much joy. This will become a standard entertainment during our oh so sparkly midwinter celebrations. Thank you so much for bringing this to us.

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Interesting text, meh narration, poor editing.

Revisado: 01-12-24

Very interesting and worth reading, however, somewhat lacking in editing and focus.

I enjoyed this read. The book is a good companion to the education I'm currently pursuing in historical textile techniques. The thrill of learning that remnants of the string skirts ancient venus figurines are portrayed as wearing still remain in some European folk costumes!

What brings the rating down is the lack of editing. Information is haphazardly repeated, often in the same chapter, and unscientific subjective wording is sometimes used. I suppose that is more acceptable in a pop-history book like this, but I prefer to have facts and feelings properly distinguished in even this kind of publication.

I found the narration somewhat breathy, on the verge of moaning at the end of sentensens.

I thoroughly recommend this to anyone interested in textile history.

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Gothic novel galore! 💀

Revisado: 09-03-23

Wow, what a journey this book was, like a never ending house of horrors that just keeps getting darker and more horrifying with every step. Will anyone get out alive?

So this is a novel about abuse. All of the abuse. And all of the cruelty. And death. I'm a horror buff, and this is one of the most chilling stories I've ever come across. It shows how abuse fosters more abuse in ever strengthening feedback loops.

Do I find the narrative realistic? Not completely. The book does ofcourse have its problems, like anything published more than 170 years ago. Its main antagonist's villainy can immediately be told by his "dark hair and complexion"... He is a street urchin in Liverpool who gets picked up by a gentleman father into a privileged family, residing at an estate in the Yorkshire Moors. They discuss his "darkness" and speculate that he might be Spanish, or even American. Wow... The racism is so unashamedly flagrante, it makes my inside crawl. But context my friends, context. Emily Brontë was probably not more racist than anyone else in that time and place.

The characters give us the opportunity to reflect over nurture versus nature. The nature of the villain is bad, thus regardless of loving nurture from his foster father, he will always be villainous. However, it's by his influence other characters and relationships turn sour and toxic. At times to an unbalanced degree. So people can be nurtured to be bad, but someone naturally bad can by no circumstances turn good, or at least less evil? Well, the book seems to think so, I don't necessarily agree.

Emily Brontë wanted to tell a violent story about cruelty and abuse, and she really delivered! This is her story, unapologetically told with no regard whatsoever for the readers comfort. I truly respect that.

This is not a novel for the faint hearted, if you want romance, choose Jane Austen. However if you are ready to crawl around in a cesspool of humanity's darkest dimensions, then dive right in!

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