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Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women by Marcia Aldrich
3.0
Will add full review in a few
ETA Review:
I knew I wasn't going to love every entry in this collection because that's what always happens when I read things by multiple contributors, but at least the essays I loved, I loved enough to not give the collection an overall poor rating. I really, REALLY loved the following:
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (absolute fave, 11/10)
- Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain by Leslie Jamison (this one was really long and sort of hard to read and really almost came off as pretentious but I decided I loved it)
- Here by Kristen Radtke (this was actually a short graphic essay, which was a nice palate cleanser among all the wordiness)
- There Are Distances Between Us (by the GOAT Roxane Gay)
- Good-Bye to All That by Eula Biss (10/10, what I took from this is that NYC doesn't have to be everyone's favorite city on earth and a lot of people come out of it jaded and it helped me overcome the regret that I never made a Big City Move in my life while I was still a young adult)
- and finally, The Art of Being Born by Marcia Aldrich, who also edited the collection.
Sensitivity Warning for readers - there are a lot of sensitive topics featured in these essays so please read at your own discretion!
ETA Review:
I knew I wasn't going to love every entry in this collection because that's what always happens when I read things by multiple contributors, but at least the essays I loved, I loved enough to not give the collection an overall poor rating. I really, REALLY loved the following:
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (absolute fave, 11/10)
- Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain by Leslie Jamison (this one was really long and sort of hard to read and really almost came off as pretentious but I decided I loved it)
- Here by Kristen Radtke (this was actually a short graphic essay, which was a nice palate cleanser among all the wordiness)
- There Are Distances Between Us (by the GOAT Roxane Gay)
- Good-Bye to All That by Eula Biss (10/10, what I took from this is that NYC doesn't have to be everyone's favorite city on earth and a lot of people come out of it jaded and it helped me overcome the regret that I never made a Big City Move in my life while I was still a young adult)
- and finally, The Art of Being Born by Marcia Aldrich, who also edited the collection.
Sensitivity Warning for readers - there are a lot of sensitive topics featured in these essays so please read at your own discretion!