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4.2 AVERAGE
A new favorite book! I recommend reading this one immediately. You will learn about 52 women who have changed the world but are absent from history books and not recognized for their impact. The artwork is beautiful and the writing is witty and playful. Each woman has a couple pages dedicated to her which makes this a quick read.
The casual writing makes this non fiction book very accessible. You will laugh. You will vibrate with anger. You will be inspired.
The casual writing makes this non fiction book very accessible. You will laugh. You will vibrate with anger. You will be inspired.
Loved it! Was really interesting and written with humor .
I love this book. I want to hand it out to all the girls I know. This book is empowering and inspiring and educational. I dipped in and out of it, which I think is probably the way it was meant to be read considering its origins are weekly twitter threads.
I really like Mackenzi Lee and I really enjoyed the threads she used to do, so when she announced this book I knew I had to have it. I've already done bits of research on some of these amazing women. It's absolutely tragic that I had never heard of the majority of these women! I would highly recommend this, especially for the girls and young women in your life!
I really like Mackenzi Lee and I really enjoyed the threads she used to do, so when she announced this book I knew I had to have it. I've already done bits of research on some of these amazing women. It's absolutely tragic that I had never heard of the majority of these women! I would highly recommend this, especially for the girls and young women in your life!
I have read books like this one, and this was not my favorite.
Recently, a whole bunch of Feminist Anthologies Of Badass Women In History have come out. They always have pretty art, and they always try to be funny, and they usually have the same lineup of women with a few newbies in each one.
The first book I read like this was Brazen, which was the f*cking best. The art is beautiful, and the writer is knowledgeable, and it’s all around a meaningful fun aesthetically pleasing empowerment-fest.
Then I followed that up with The Little Book of Feminist Saints, which was also good, mainly because the title is awesome and the art is also reallyreally pretty.
And then I read this one.
The art is still pretty, but...that’s about the nicest thing I can say.
The whole tone of this is...how can I put this...like that one person on a politician’s social media team who’s always insisting on trying to use memes to get a political message across, and it just never works and is always cringy. This book uses a ton of Tumblr-y outdated try-to-relate-to-the-teens slang in an attempt to seem, I assume, witty and amusing and charming, and instead it seems really condescending to these amazing women. It feels like making a mockery of the suffering and labor and pain of these people, and that’s the complete opposite of what this is supposed to do. (It's also the same thing Wonder Women did.)
The only other nice thing I can say is that this includes Isabella Stewart Gardner, my favorite person ever, in history, living or dead, and a true goddamn saint.
Bottom line: What I recommend is this: Look at this cover for a few minutes, Google Isabella Stewart Gardner, and then read Brazen instead.
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FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, I FORGOT TO MARK A BOOK AS READ ON GOODREADS.
...Who am I?? What have I become?
review to come, once I get some mild existential crises done with (1.5 stars)
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Starting off the new year the way I basically spent the entire last one: By reading a gorgeously illustrated anthology of powerful women in history.
We stan.
Recently, a whole bunch of Feminist Anthologies Of Badass Women In History have come out. They always have pretty art, and they always try to be funny, and they usually have the same lineup of women with a few newbies in each one.
The first book I read like this was Brazen, which was the f*cking best. The art is beautiful, and the writer is knowledgeable, and it’s all around a meaningful fun aesthetically pleasing empowerment-fest.
Then I followed that up with The Little Book of Feminist Saints, which was also good, mainly because the title is awesome and the art is also reallyreally pretty.
And then I read this one.
The art is still pretty, but...that’s about the nicest thing I can say.
The whole tone of this is...how can I put this...like that one person on a politician’s social media team who’s always insisting on trying to use memes to get a political message across, and it just never works and is always cringy. This book uses a ton of Tumblr-y outdated try-to-relate-to-the-teens slang in an attempt to seem, I assume, witty and amusing and charming, and instead it seems really condescending to these amazing women. It feels like making a mockery of the suffering and labor and pain of these people, and that’s the complete opposite of what this is supposed to do. (It's also the same thing Wonder Women did.)
The only other nice thing I can say is that this includes Isabella Stewart Gardner, my favorite person ever, in history, living or dead, and a true goddamn saint.
Bottom line: What I recommend is this: Look at this cover for a few minutes, Google Isabella Stewart Gardner, and then read Brazen instead.
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pre-review
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, I FORGOT TO MARK A BOOK AS READ ON GOODREADS.
...Who am I?? What have I become?
review to come, once I get some mild existential crises done with (1.5 stars)
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Starting off the new year the way I basically spent the entire last one: By reading a gorgeously illustrated anthology of powerful women in history.
We stan.
I don't know how well this book will age (it reads like the Internet gathered together to write it in 2018 in the most glorious way), but I'm darn delighted to have read it in its heyday.
I love reading about badass women, though the tone of this book was a little weird to me. I'm not sure if it's because it started out as a twitter series and then complied into a book, or if it's just my preference. I don't mind a modern style retellings. I gave me drunk history vibes, but like sober. I also felt that the author tried to hard to be "cool and hip" so the references and jokes made were cringe worthy to me at best.
Excuse me while I go rewatch some Drunk History clips.
Excuse me while I go rewatch some Drunk History clips.
It's not bad, but it's more of a list than a book, and you can see the twitter posts behind this. I would have hoped to see something a bit more edited.
This book is fantastic. It was funny, thought provoking, informative and when I finished it I felt fucking empowered.
All these women are awesome in their own right, strong females in every sense of the word. They are fighters, both on battlefields and off. They are trailblazers. They achieved amazing things in their fields often in the face of men telling them to get back in the kitchen.
You know what though? There are some men behind some of these women that are examples of what good men are. They look at these women as equals, they are supportive, they stand up for them in times when a man's voice was worth so much more than a woman's.
Of course this book is also full of dickbags that wanted to hold women down because they're dickbags.
But let's focus on the Badass Broads that stomped all over them, let's circulate this book so that a generation of young women have a whole new sea of historical figures to research and write about in history papers for years to come, a whole new pool of inspirational idols and heroines.
Everyone should read this. Everyone. There are women in history that we know nothing about that did crazy amazing things.
It's about time their stories were heard.
Well done Mackenzie Lee you absolutely legend.
All these women are awesome in their own right, strong females in every sense of the word. They are fighters, both on battlefields and off. They are trailblazers. They achieved amazing things in their fields often in the face of men telling them to get back in the kitchen.
You know what though? There are some men behind some of these women that are examples of what good men are. They look at these women as equals, they are supportive, they stand up for them in times when a man's voice was worth so much more than a woman's.
Of course this book is also full of dickbags that wanted to hold women down because they're dickbags.
But let's focus on the Badass Broads that stomped all over them, let's circulate this book so that a generation of young women have a whole new sea of historical figures to research and write about in history papers for years to come, a whole new pool of inspirational idols and heroines.
Everyone should read this. Everyone. There are women in history that we know nothing about that did crazy amazing things.
It's about time their stories were heard.
Well done Mackenzie Lee you absolutely legend.
Full of brief bios of interesting women, many of whom I'd never heard of before, and with a clear effort made to include women from other marginalized communities throughout history. In keeping with the nature of the hashtag the book is based on, the bios are presented as narratives told in punchy one-liners; I think the style isn't best suited to the medium of a book. Or maybe this is a book that should be read a couple pages at a time.