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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
I am not sure what to score, I just gave 2 stars based on the fact that it just annoyed me. I could not relate at all with anything in this book, maybe 1 passage or two, but a book that is supposed to be relatable, that was not. For me. I got so frustrated with all the statements about period shame, when I was young there was no shame and why is there shame? Wth is ashamed to talk about their period? Who shames in the UK, I can totally see it in very poor or religious countries, but not here, not in Europe. There is an anger at periods throught the book as if it is something we chose or have total control over . I just I got a very negative feeling staying with me.
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I could write a great long review of this (and did start to) but decided not to because I think in this case that shorter is better.
Whatever your sex, gender, orientation, religion or political leaning you should read this.
Whatever your sex, gender, orientation, religion or political leaning you should read this.
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inspiring
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My work book club chose this book in honour of Endometriosis Awareness Month. In it, Emma Barnett sets out to write a manifesto for the smashing of the taboo that still exists around discussing periods. I broadly enjoyed this and I think her overall points were well made - shame around a perfectly natural biological process that is essential to the continuation of the human race is completely nonsensical. They ought to be able to be discussed openly and everyone should be conscious of the struggles that people go through as they manage them. However, there were times when I felt like she could have taken her ideas a bit further. Barnett always seems to stop herself before she hit on an idea that felt truly ground-breaking. The book also became fairly repetitive after a certain point but to be fair there's only so many pages anyone can expound on one topic for before this happens. Ultimately I think this is a really useful and interesting book, but I think it would have been better if Barnett had narrowed her focus, shortened the book slightly and felt more empowered to get creative about solutions to the problems she outlines.
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I personally did not get on with this author’s writing style. 3 stars because I learnt a lot and strongly believe that period education is important, but it was very repetitive and every period pun was followed by ‘(sorry not sorry)’ just in case you hadn’t noticed the joke. Often an anecdote was mentioned several times throughout in varying degrees of detail, which was very annoying, but perhaps illustrates the lack of period-related anecdotes available to the author which just proves the point that it’s a taboo subject. Interesting read.
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