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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This was... good, but perhaps less cohesive than I liked. Not quite polished enough. Too conversational, maybe. They read a bit more like blog entries written casually for her followers than essays that would be published somewhere.
A few of the essays were quite good ("We Have Always Fought" is a standout) , and I found a fair bit of strong passages to highlight. I think the overall message of social change and feminism in the realm of nerddom is a good one but I didn't feel like it was saying very much that I hadn't heard before.
A few of the essays were quite good ("We Have Always Fought" is a standout) , and I found a fair bit of strong passages to highlight. I think the overall message of social change and feminism in the realm of nerddom is a good one but I didn't feel like it was saying very much that I hadn't heard before.
This is a great book of essays on a variety of topics. I enjoyed reading her perspective and insights. I would recommend this book to all different types of people who identify as geek. And I will be passing my copy to another so they may enjoy reading it too.
This book just didn't work for me. Some of the essays were interesting, but overall I didn't enjoy the collections. There was a lot of repetition, so I wonder if the author could've done a more successful collection if she had written more new essays or waiting a few years until she had more published essays to choose from. Going along with this, there was a lot of name-dropping of her other books. I don't begrudge anybody some self-promotion, but it felt like I was being hit over the head with it here. I also personally found her writing persona to be a bit pretentious and have somewhat of a "my opinion is right and if you disagree you're wrong" attitude.
I'm sure this collection will resonate with some people, but I personally didn't enjoy it.
Received from NetGalley in exchange for review.
I'm sure this collection will resonate with some people, but I personally didn't enjoy it.
Received from NetGalley in exchange for review.
A righteously angry and personal call to arms. KH is a new hero of mine. Now to read her novels.
Would give a sixth star if I could. This is glorious. Angry feminist rants for the win!! I'm also rereading it from the beginning with a highlighter.
Hurley presents a formidable discussion about the role of women and her own experiences in writing, in science-fiction, and in the world in general in this collection of essays. Her discussion provides an inside and critical lens to the challenges, frustrations, threats, and dangers of trying to exist in spaces dominated and guarded by men, such as the realm of science fiction writing. She destroys the straw-man arguments about the absence of women in sci-fi while also illustrating the need for a wider range of authors than the traditional white men in order to do what sci-fi does best, imagine new and dynamic worlds that don't just differ from our own but become aspiration guides in ways that open up opportunity and possibility. In breaking up the book into three sections, she focuses on how she became and succeeded as a writer (the goal for writers is persistence), then she pivots to provide critiques of science-fiction in US culture, and finally, she discussed how her personal life has been disrupted and disregarded within a patriarchal, capitalist system that would devalue her as a person for being a woman. Hurley's work is a powerful book that helps readers to think more deeply about what they read, what they write, how they engage in politics, and how they may or may not perpetuate the inequalities of our current system through such actions. And, of course, after reading it and hearing about her world building, I am itching to go and read her fiction because it sounds amazing.
A now much beloved book that made me feel like my experiences in the geek world are sadly common, but at the same time a sign of things changing. Read it!
Un libro necesario para comprender, abrir mente, y avanzar. No deja de ser una recopilación de textos que la autora ha ido poniendo en internet, y otros escritos para el propio libro, así que no esperéis mucho enlace, o un manual guiado. Y aún así merece la pena para cobrar consciencia