The Zombie Apocalypse scenario is always a good one and today I decided to get together my dream time of three fictional heroines to fight and survive the apocalypse together. I considered a variety of criteria, not least how they’d get on together personality-wise (Katniss Everdeen discarded on the basis of being unsociable as hell … Continue reading Literary Heroines v. The Undead
Synopsis: From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being … Continue reading Review: Inferior – How Science Got Women Wrong by Angela Saini
Synopsis: Someone needs to be forgiven. Someone needs to forgive. ‘Charming, quirky, magical’ Joanne Harris Nothing hurts like not knowing who you are. Nobody will tell Cadi anything about her father and her sister. Her mother Violet believes she can only cope with the past by never talking about it. Lili, Cadi’s aunt, is stuck … Continue reading Review: Ghostbird by Carol Lovekin
Synopsis: Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations … Continue reading Me, My Hair and I by Elizabeth Benedict
Synopsis: In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu … Continue reading Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
