A review by ida
Mimi by Lucy Ellmann

5.0

Full of lots of feminism, love and humor! Although it's not perfect in all of its ideas on feminism, for me it was great just being able to read a book that actually spotlighted the way women are treated and did so in a fun (but without taking the piss) and enlightening way, not just for the reader but for the characters in it as well.

The character of Mimi was an absolute joy, full of rage, love and great ideas of how the world should be. Favorite bit? This:

Mimi on the moon landing: "Women were in tune with the moon from the start. Menstruation's a lunar cycle. Prehistoric women invented the first calendar, a lunar calendar with thirteen months. You have to understand the moon if your gonna farm, or fish. Or follow the tides and stuff. Then men turned the moon into a bad thing, trashing the lunar calendars, and adding all that leap year crap. The lunar calendar is much more exact: there really are thirteen months in a year! They even turned the number thirteen into an unlucky number! And then they go bouncing around on the moon itself? Get off! That place belong to us!