A review by kricketa
What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather Corinna

4.0

While I am not yet in this stage of life, I hope to be eventually, and wanted to be prepared. I'd never even heard the term perimenopause until the year 2020 (when I, a woman in her 30s, heard it for the very first time on a podcast while painting my bathroom during lockdown) which I think says a lot about how much people with eggs and ovaries get told about their bodies. So I was glad to see several books on the topic being published. It still took me a couple months to get through because some of the information was a little bit difficult to digest- the very long lists of uncomfortable body sensations did not make for peaceful bedtime reading. I liked the illustrations and wished there were more illustrations. I am glad to have this information, even if it is a little bit alarming ("literally anything can happen to your body for an unknown amount of time!!"), and I'm sure I'll be referencing it again in the future.