Reviews - The Witches Are Coming

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“being on twitter felt like being in a nonconsensual bdsm relationship with the apocalypse. so i left” just…. yes.

i’ve simped for lindy west since she wrote that essay about how much the movie “love actually” sucks so it won’t surprise you to learn that i loved this book. but y’all this book is SO good and smart and funny and honest and the audio book just added another layer of joy to it. idk. thank u public libraries for my life / your audiobook collections

joxertd's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 67%

I feel like I've learned all of this already. Didn't gain much and feel like I was losing interest.

emilypunbar's review against another edition

5.0

Listen, we know how I feel about Lindy West. We know only a GENIUS could write and then put on TV a thing as beautiful as Shrill. So of course, this book went off. Where Shrill is about fat women’s place in this world, Witches is about creating a world we actually all might wanna be in. From Tr*mp to So*th P*rk to Adam Sandler, we get it all! (She’s wrong about Sandler, though. He’s perfect. But I’ll cut her some slack since this was released before Uncut Gems. She couldn’t have known!!!) More than anything, it’s amazing how much Lindy West’s writing — no matter what it is — cracks me up. And you KNOW how embarrassing it is to LAUGH at a SCREEN in PUBLIC! Now imagine laughing at a Kindle. Come on. I deserve compensation. Anyway, read it!!!

hottamolly's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective

I haven’t laughed out loud reading a book in a long time. So funny, upsetting, and also inspiring. It’s harrowing that it’s only 6 years old and so many horrifying world events have happened since. I wish I had more of her essays!

shereadssitall's review against another edition

4.0

This book is perfect to those who are liberal feminists. Lindy west described a lot of things in this book in a good humour to which I agree on most things. I only read it because of the book challenge. But I really enjoyed this book and the topics of abortion rights, misogyny, gender equality, women's rights, and the way men in society think of women, and how both genders should work together to eliminate the problems created because of these problems. Alot of insightful topics are included in this book.