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How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Claire Mitchell, Zoe Venditozzi
4.35 AVERAGE
45 reviews for:
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Claire Mitchell, Zoe Venditozzi
4.35 AVERAGE
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So I’m going to give this a 2.5 for a couple reasons:
1) first off, the book could have benefitted greatly from having an editor/a stronger editor. There were multiple times where I found myself reading a section and thought “hey didn’t I just read this? Did I accidentally repeat a line/section?” only to go back and read that no, I had not but the book was repeating a point it had just made a couple lines/paragraph ago.
2) God lord! The number of footnotes. This was distracting as hell for me. Again, wish an editor/stronger editor had taken a pass at this before publication. It got to the point where the excessive footnotes became a distraction to me and started skipping them. Too many too frequently and you break up the attention and pace of the point you’re trying to make in the main text. Some other readers cited the footnotes as fun and amusing but I can’t say that I agree with them.
3) generally not a fan of AI inclusion of any sort (won’t get into it in this review) so I was very disappointed to find an AI image and “artist” cited near the end of the book. With as much research that was put into the rest of this book, one would hope that the authors would take a bit of time to research how destructive and unethical AI “art” is and never should be included in any work that aims to be taken seriously. AI art isn’t a genuine art form built on craft, skill, talent, or hard work. Instead it steals and creates shortcuts for those uninterested in putting in the work. Disappointing to see that slop included in here.
All that aside, I LOVED the idea behind the work of this book and the authors. The amount of research is commendable and well explored. There was a part laid out early on in the book that is sad but brilliantly evergreen in that “that when the going gets tough in any society, it is the vulnerable that are accused of causing the damage, as an easy target to avoid dealing with the greater problems of inequality.”
A lot (LOT) of good work in this book I just wish it were a bit more polished before publication.
1) first off, the book could have benefitted greatly from having an editor/a stronger editor. There were multiple times where I found myself reading a section and thought “hey didn’t I just read this? Did I accidentally repeat a line/section?” only to go back and read that no, I had not but the book was repeating a point it had just made a couple lines/paragraph ago.
2) God lord! The number of footnotes. This was distracting as hell for me. Again, wish an editor/stronger editor had taken a pass at this before publication. It got to the point where the excessive footnotes became a distraction to me and started skipping them. Too many too frequently and you break up the attention and pace of the point you’re trying to make in the main text. Some other readers cited the footnotes as fun and amusing but I can’t say that I agree with them.
3) generally not a fan of AI inclusion of any sort (won’t get into it in this review) so I was very disappointed to find an AI image and “artist” cited near the end of the book. With as much research that was put into the rest of this book, one would hope that the authors would take a bit of time to research how destructive and unethical AI “art” is and never should be included in any work that aims to be taken seriously. AI art isn’t a genuine art form built on craft, skill, talent, or hard work. Instead it steals and creates shortcuts for those uninterested in putting in the work. Disappointing to see that slop included in here.
All that aside, I LOVED the idea behind the work of this book and the authors. The amount of research is commendable and well explored. There was a part laid out early on in the book that is sad but brilliantly evergreen in that “that when the going gets tough in any society, it is the vulnerable that are accused of causing the damage, as an easy target to avoid dealing with the greater problems of inequality.”
A lot (LOT) of good work in this book I just wish it were a bit more polished before publication.
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Loved this book. Really enjoyed the different stories about each person.
challenging
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funny
informative
sad
fast-paced
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sad
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I loved this and it would’ve been five stars but for the chapters about Salem.
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medium-paced
challenging
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Thank you Netgalley for the arc opportunity
This book is so well written; engaging, thought-provoking and delivers a real insight into the history of the witch trials in Scotland.
It feels like the authors have taken great care with the women within these trials where other books and account have used them as a footnote.
It made me angry, it made me sad, it made me laugh - the full wheel of emotions.
This book is so well written; engaging, thought-provoking and delivers a real insight into the history of the witch trials in Scotland.
It feels like the authors have taken great care with the women within these trials where other books and account have used them as a footnote.
It made me angry, it made me sad, it made me laugh - the full wheel of emotions.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Wish there hadnt included an AI image. Apart from that really informative