I wasn’t sure I’d like this book at first. I don’t love science fiction that focuses too much on technology at the expense of character development, and this book features a high-tech robot as a main character. I read it because I needed a winner of a Lambda Literary Award for the Reading Women challenge,…
When I went on vacation I didn’t get to review some great reads, so I’m working on catching up. This one was my favorite. Alderman’s novel won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017, but I was a little afraid it wouldn’t live up to the hype. This book was amazing. It took a…
I saw Katty Kay and Claire Shipman on the Colbert Report, and I immediately wanted to read this book. They’ve studied all the ways that women’s lower confidence levels (compared to men) hold them back in the workplace and personally. If you pay attention, you know some of the obvious differences between men and women.…
This was such a cool book. It’s science fiction, but definitely could be read and enjoyed by a non-science fiction reader. In fact if this book is made into a movie (and it should be) most people would love it. The story is set in the near future, where our world revolves around social media…
The full title of this book is actually Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Line of the New Girly-Girl Culture. This is a book I would recommend to anyone with daughters – it’s aimed at parents of toddlers but covers issues that affect tweens and teens as well. In fact I would recommend…
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