A review by ljbentley27
Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women by John Griswold, Leslie Jamison, Patricia Foster, Joy Castro, Kristen Radtke, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Amy Wright, Laurie Lynn Drummond, Torrey Peters, Bich Minh Nguyen, Sarah Valentine, Adriana Paramo, Brenda Miller, Wendy Rawlings, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Dana Tommasino, Barrie Jean Borich, Chelsea Biondolillo, Neela Vaswani, Roxane Gay, Michele Morano, Marcia Aldrich, Kyoko Mori, Sonja Livingston, Margo Jefferson, Cheryl Strayed, Eula Biss, Jaquira Díaz, Nicole Walker, Jericho Parms, Meghan Daum

3.0

I like reading essays. I like that most essays I read give me access to a world that I usually have no concept of or have never experienced. This is why I chose to request Waveform from NetGalley. As expected, the essays featured in Waveform opened up doors to the writers minds and let me be privy to events that I didn’t previously have access too.

What I found was that some of the essays were so beyond my ken that I struggled to actively follow along whereas others had be turning the page so quickly so that I could absorb more. I realised that essays, like great novels can be read at any time but there are certain times when a great piece of writing finds you when you need it most. I think that is what is special about Waveform. It is that kind of collection.

Waveform by Marcia Aldrich is available now.