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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
In the end, I was happy I read it, but this book and especially this author's voice, really struggled to create a broader historical context for these women's stories that did not sound like the caption to a Buzzfeed gif. Surely, Madame de Pompadour's champagne endorsement could have been likened to someone besides Chrissy Teigen. Really, I recognize that I may not have been the target audience, particularly for the jokes, because I am maybe ten or twenty years too young, but it was really the anachronistic third-wave feminist lens that particularly fell flat in the earlier chapters when it seemed even more out of place as the sole commentary on the historical information presented to me. I am still a whiskey fan and this did make me want to try a cosmo though! Um, go women!
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lighthearted
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I absolutely adored the content and its presentation in this book! Mallory O’Meara put so SO much into it and was so thorough with her research that it almost felt like reading a history textbook at points. I do think this is where I struggled with finishing it, just because I felt very overwhelmed by the immense influx of information I took in every chapter I read, but damn I’m so glad I stuck with it! Made me feel so excited about booze that I bought a cheap cocktail recipe book from work and I’m about 10 seconds away from singing up for a bartending class.
Look, I'm not expecting these chatty microhistories to be fantastically accurate, but the fact that lines such as 'Prussia and Austria were annexed by Russia under Catherine the Great' passed the editing process doesn't really leave me with much confidence in the rest of the information.
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