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Dec 29, 2015
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Read Harder - nonfiction dealing with feminist themes.
This was the last book I read for the 2016 challenge and I definitely finished in a high note. I think I'm now a fan of the personal essay and I'm definitely a fan of Roxane Gay. Sadly I'm not on Twitter or I'd be getting daily updates on her smart, funny and thought-provoking ideas...
I, too, am a Bad Feminist and I love that Gay and I look a lot different and are a lot different about a whole lot of things (my favorite color is not pink, I ...more
This was the last book I read for the 2016 challenge and I definitely finished in a high note. I think I'm now a fan of the personal essay and I'm definitely a fan of Roxane Gay. Sadly I'm not on Twitter or I'd be getting daily updates on her smart, funny and thought-provoking ideas...
I, too, am a Bad Feminist and I love that Gay and I look a lot different and are a lot different about a whole lot of things (my favorite color is not pink, I ...more

I really wanted to like this book. A couple of the essays are good, but for the most part she doesn't offer anything new here and she often contradicts herself within the same essay. Disappointing.
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