alycejanine 's review for:

The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

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This book felt like therapy. I mean that in the best way! Febos puts into (very precise) words what I imagine is the internal monologue of a lot of women about their relationship to love and sex, even if they aren’t able to put it into words quite like this. History and theory is woven throughout, and while this added a lot of depth to her narrative overall, I think it kept me from connecting with it at times. She’s an academic, though, so I get it! Both educational and resonant.