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vverbatim7's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
frankatzenzungen's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.5
emybean's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Beautiful book - I’m in a transition place - it was reassuring and calming.
amxlia's review against another edition
medium-paced
0.75
An excruciatingly read made only barely palatable by the folktale inclusions, which were very interesting in their own right. Blatant bioessentialism aside, I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything as cloyingly self-serving as this in my entire life, and I hope never to again.
I’ll leave this with an unbelievably relevant Ursula K Le Guin quote,
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
I’ll leave this with an unbelievably relevant Ursula K Le Guin quote,
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
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Moderate: Transphobia
yell_like_you_mean_it's review against another edition
3.0
I didn't feel like I took a lot away from this book. There was a lot of unrelatable story telling. It was fine to listen to (audiobook) but I wasn't inspired and wouldn't necessarily reccomend. 3/5 stars.
christinajcraig's review
I only got halfway through this before having to return it to a friend. Somewhat relieved as I was wanting to enjoy it more than I did; I don't think I have the time and space to absorb the significance of Celtic mythology right now.