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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Oh, this was wonderful! After Sappho is a novelization of the lives of various historical women, from Vita and Virginia to Colette and Josephine Baker, who all came, well, after Sappho. Artists, sapphics, writers, feminists. Not necessarily non-fiction, we get to glimpse into their lives and work in short vignettes, going back and forth in time to see how they fight for a better future for women, while also seeing how their lives might occasionally intertwine. Another reviewer called this hopeful and a novel of movement, and that's exactly what it is. The way it's written, in this unique, poetic, nearly short story-like way, works perfectly for what it's trying to do. It truly caught me by surprise because I don't think it's necessarily what I thought it would be when I bought it on a semi-sunny day back last autumn while going home after defending my MA thesis, but it managed to be so much more, so much better than I imagined. I highly recommend it!
Did not like this book. It reads like Wikipedia lectures about historical women’s experiences in an overly feminist light. I understand why it is highly rated but the prose was lost on me
DNF- tried listening to this on audiobook and the vignette style and switching between POVs were difficult to follow. May try this again with a physical read.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book has an interesting concept and shows the many ways in which the lives of several famous lesbian and bisexual artists intersected between the late 1880s through the 1920s. However, the way this novel is written made it difficult to understand at times and I felt like if this had been written as a typical novel rather than in what felt like poetic prose, it would have been more enjoyable and would have given readers more of an opportunity to get more information about these women and understand the work they created and the events that shaped who they became. It's still informative and has me wanting to look more into the women described here and some of their work.
Feels like lesbian TERFs would love this