At 17, Owen feels like his life is finally on track. As he struggled to socialize and form Cataclysmic floods. Unprecedented heat waves and protracted droughts. Devastating wildfires breaking The little-known Amur River, the 10th longest in the world, acts as the natural border of Russia and Book Club Discussion. A deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble.
About Discuss. Reader Reviews. Who Said The less we know, the longer our explanations. The mischief-making novelist on the return of the She Devil, gender politics and the perils of writing too much. When it was published in , it licensed a generation of second-wave feminists to own their inner demon. Thirty-four years after igniting the reading world with her rage against the male of the species, the She Devil is back. For decades, people have been urging her to write a sequel, so why now?
The woman who utters these words smiles serenely from the end of her kitchen table as if nothing could be more obvious. To meet Weldon is to gasp at her audacity, to wonder at her zest for occupying the frontline of sexual politics whether or not she has an investment in it, but also to admire her chutzpah, and the energy that has kept her turning out headline-grabbing novels into her ninth decade.
See the blood flow! Have a laugh!!! I feel badly that I have abandoned one of my favorite writers while she has been doggedly writing book after book.
The main message is be nice to people and there is not one insipid moment in the book. Dec 18, Drew Harlow rated it did not like it. Utter trash. Nov 14, Laura Lynch rated it it was ok. Fay took a different approach and looked at the circumstances and things that make women un-happy with short stories to emphasis her points. I suppose the intent was humorous but I found it rather negative. Aug 31, Rachel Swords rated it did not like it.
So according to this book, all that I, as a woman, need to be happy is sex, shopping, and chocolate. How stereotypical is that. Nothing I couldn't have learned from a bad tv sitcom. Good job, Fay Weldon! Note: I am also NOT a feminist, so I really did not like the pro-feminist angle this book had So according to this book, all that I, as a woman, need to be happy is sex, shopping, and chocolate.
May 20, Wilde Sky rated it it was ok. Jun 06, PM rated it did not like it. A complete joke. Weldon, a successful novelist, advises that all it takes for women to be happy is chocolate, shopping, and good sex though she's not above suggesting that we fake it for "our man.
What a waste of paper, not to mention my time. Aug 21, Anny rated it it was ok. Some good thoughts and good stories, but author is very estimating and doesn't look very happy herself. Belittle other thoughts. I didn't get answer What makes women happy? Jan 26, Dr. Kat added it Shelves: psychology. Mar 14, Emma added it. I did not identify with this book whatsoever. While some of the passages gave me a wry smile, the overall tone of the book just stands at odds with my beliefs. I struggled to get to the final page.
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