![]() ![]() :) Definitely glad I picked it up at the library, though! I also now know someone else that I'm going to follow on Twitter. And in a few years, I may consider revisiting it. That being said, I would definitely recommend this book. I don't mind, but it did make the pop culture essays a bit tedious. ![]() Anyone who knows me well, knows that I'm pop culture illiterate (or almost). The only essays in this compendium that did not really feel applicable to me are the ones pertaining to pop culture. (That is, they weren't written with the sole purpose of being in a collection.) So there may be more repetitions of "I'm a bad feminist and this is what I mean" or "This is the outrage of racism" - although, even with repetition, I feel that I still learned and grew in reading all of these essays. Some of them are repetitive, but this makes sense given that some of the essays have been published elsewhere and are now finally in a collection. In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of colour (The Help). ![]() I feel like I learned something - a new viewpoint, some more knowledge on a particular issue - from almost every essay in this collection. ![]() It's more due to the fact that Gay introduces a lot of interesting concepts as well as heavy topics, and therefore this is not light reading (at least, for me). (Like from February to May, kind of long time.) But that's not because it's a bad book - indeed, far from it. ![]()
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