A review by jjaylynny
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

3.0

This book was a well-researched, perhaps too academically oriented but ultimately moving story about 17th century Jewish London. Encompassing weighty topics like philosophy, the role of women in 17th c Jewish culture (basically the same as the role of women in non-Jewish 17th c culture--shitty), the quietly cutthroat world of academia, Plague, Spinoza: all a bit too heady for me at times. As always, the little lives of human minds and hearts are the most compelling.