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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
Couldn’t concentrate on the time jumps and the technical explanations for poetic device and language was hard to follow.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Lovely words and everything but I had trouble focusing … on the person, the time, or the place. Was it fiction? All seemed a bit of an intellectual hotchpotch.
While interesting I found it hard to actually enjoy it because of the way it just had small insights into the characters so felt it was not enough to get to know and be engaged with theM
emotional
informative
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
informative
medium-paced
“Aurel hoped that women writers would disobey the laws that bound men’s books. It was time for women to take language for themselves, Aurel said, even one word at a time, to take their own names and become. To become even one word.”
After Sappho is a collection of reimagined lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as they battle for liberation, justice and control over their own lives. It is interesting and informative but lacking soul. At some point, it started to read like a research paper. Disappointing.
After Sappho is a collection of reimagined lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as they battle for liberation, justice and control over their own lives. It is interesting and informative but lacking soul. At some point, it started to read like a research paper. Disappointing.
adventurous
challenging
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I feel very confused about this book. The writing is beautiful and poetic. However, it took me a month to read it for good reason. It is very difficult to form any sort of connection or narrative, to understand the history, or engage in the worlds that are being written about. The fragmentation of the writing is clearly an ode to Sappho’s remaining fragments, but it jumped so quickly between ideas I couldn’t put the fragments together to see their meaning. I think this book would be better on re-read or knowing more of the history first. Ultimately I couldn’t appreciate beauty of this book as much I hoped.
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
i wish i liked this as much as i like the cover. the format was not for me. it kinda read like the very first draft of a women’s lit research paper.