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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Hard to rate memoirs/set of essays in my opinion, but these sets of stories are vivid, captivating, and showcases an honest human perspective to an industry that leaves women in husks by design
The first two essays felt really strong and interesting. But like introductions instead of the whole story. The whole rest of the story felt like she really held back from sharing herself. — Which is fine even celebrities can and should have private lives but the book towed a line instead of sinking its teeth into a truth.
She was just asking us to believe she used to be not rich. and just because she’s hot doesn’t mean she’s dumb.
She was just asking us to believe she used to be not rich. and just because she’s hot doesn’t mean she’s dumb.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
fast-paced
I am speechless. I found myself completely tethered to this book after completing it, not wanting to let it go, and continued to walk around my apartment with it in tow for a great while after, completely attached. Despite Emily's life experience and style being significantly scaled, I felt so seen in every chapter of her book. The female experience is immensely complicated, whether it's our relationship with our body (the safety it provides when it's viewed as pretty, the monetary gains it can give, the stress and fracture of self it can create when trying to appease societal norms and expectations), power, control, society as a whole and people individually, the deep disconnection between mind, body, and spirit that forms from this fractured, segmented, stereotyped, misognistic and limiting view of the female experience, I feel like Emrata covered every topic in such a deeply personal, effortless way. I wrote another review ahead of this one that went into more detail, unfortunately there was an issue with storyblock as there so often is (I will be saving this one at least in a separate document so that I can easily copy/paste in the future, should storyblocks continue to glitch, as it so regularly does I wish we had more competitors for digitally logging books in a somewhat communal way, but alas, a ramble for another day). I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time and am so grateful I own it.
wow!! i wasn’t expecting this. completely devoured this book. in love with emrata’s writing <3
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
a really insightful exploration of the commodification of women’s bodies. incredibly vulnerable and honest writing, thought-provoking, eye-opening.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship
emotional
reflective
medium-paced