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Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara

sarah984's review

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informative lighthearted fast-paced

2.5

I thought this was an interesting concept, but it wound up being way too pop-history for me. Each chapter features a story about a specific woman (with varying levels of connection to alcohol culture, there were a couple extremely tenuous links that felt like "diversity hires" unfortunately) interspersed with buzzfeed listicle style writing about other things happening globally during that time period. The footnotes are not citations (there's a bibliography at the back, but specific facts aren't cited directly) they're just more unfunny "snark" and some of the chapters (especially the more modern years) feel uncomfortably preachy. Also acting like Hammurabi invented misogyny whole cloth is extremely silly.

The different types of alcohol and how they're made were interesting though.

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victoriapi909's review against another edition

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funny informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.5

I loved this book! It’s super informative and chock-full of interesting pieces of women’s history that I was unaware of before! I enjoyed the casual tone of this book because it helped make the information more digestible. I would recommend this if you are also fascinated by the history of alcohol.

gmc16's review against another edition

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informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

4.0

melannrosenthal's review against another edition

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funny informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.5

jekanayake's review against another edition

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adventurous informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

arlucadamo's review against another edition

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adventurous informative lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

lizthelizars's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

zjnorth's review against another edition

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funny informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

mollyok's review against another edition

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funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

sleightoffeet's review against another edition

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challenging funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0