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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
challenging
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
Rebecca Solnit’s essays continue to be succinct, to the point, intelligent and infuriating at the same time.
I would rate this 4.5 out of 5. Rebecca Solnit's collection of essays, and her follow-up to Men Explains Things to Me is a necessary read. And it doesn't hurt that she is intelligent and eloquent. As with any collection of essays, there is some repetition, but nothing that makes you want to skip an essay or fast forward.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
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inspiring
reflective
I love the long essay that takes up the first half of this book on Silence, as it pulls together so many ideas and so many women I admire. The second half seem to be essays I've read previously via lithub because I keep meticulous tabs of Solnit's work.
This is my second time reading Rebecca Solnit; after I read her other essay collection on feminism, Men Explain Things to Me, I knew that I wanted to read everything she had written. This collection explores different aspects of feminism and the issues that women face and care about in methodically researched, beautifully phrased sentences that elucidate new aspects of very old issues. I would highly, highly recommend it.
informative
reflective
Rebecca Solnit writes in a matter of factness that poetic. She writes about sweeping topics like Love, Truth, Language, Justice, and Hope with anchors hitched to examples mundane and grand.
I'm hungry for more of her work. She introduces metaphors, personal reflections, and cultural references that bring into focus what is too close to our noses to see.
I'd like much to be a woman like Rebecca Solnit.
I'm hungry for more of her work. She introduces metaphors, personal reflections, and cultural references that bring into focus what is too close to our noses to see.
I'd like much to be a woman like Rebecca Solnit.
The essays were a bit repetitive, and the writing was at times too pompous, in my opinion. I liked the first few essays the most, my favourite one was "Escape from the Five-Million-Year-Old Suburb".