Status Updates From Héroïnes

She has, out of nowhere, reminisced 100 times about a bar she apparently frequented that we never saw her go to once.

Main character is seduced by mansplaining.

It’s a little on the nose—there’s a lot of ‘telling’. And things happen too easily for the main characters. Many parts could potentially have been cut in favour of conflict, or twisted to include it. Finally, there’s a small amount of LGBT representation, which isn’t dealt with gracefully. The tokenism of gay men.

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Still great! Loving the strong female characters, especially in the pre modern feminist era.

Great! I’m appalled at what the Hoover administration got up to. It’s really making me want to research more into what happened in the 1950s with blacklisting!

note to myself: a book which highlights the wasteful spending of the us government from another disgusting yet interesting perspective. this really happened

so far so good :)

It took me a long time to get into this book.

Whew, finally making progress in this book. Took a while to grab my interest.

Just starting!