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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
A completely readable tour of the female anatomy & physiology. There were moments of hippie-ish, earth mother worship that I couldn't get fully on board with. However, if I had a dozen of those eye-rolling moments, I had a dozen more where I cheered and felt deep kinship with the author in a shared sentiment about some aspect of womanhood.
informative
medium-paced
Lots of fascinating information in this book. Some parts went a little slowly for me, and at times the writing was a little cheesy, but overall a really good read. Definitely a more grown up version of some of the feminist writing I used to read.
emotional
informative
relaxing
slow-paced
informative
reflective
Very informative- chock full of information that every woman should know. Natalie Angier's overly wordy turns of phrases really ruin it. I gave up 3/4 of the way through because it felt like the book became more about how many ways she could talk around the information she was passing on.
Recommend for skimming (though it might be hard to get something out of it)
Recommend for skimming (though it might be hard to get something out of it)
Really wanted to like this book...a friend recommended it. I thought it might be interesting. It's was a struggle to read. The writer was trying to tie in the historical/feminist/medical issues surrounding the female body but ti just felt tedious and rambling most of the time.
Really had trouble getting into the writing - felt too descriptive or flowery?
Might try again in the future.
Might try again in the future.
Fun weird romp through all the bits & pieces of being a woman. It's been a bit since I finished, so all I have now are random trivia/highlights. I particularly like her take on a feminist evolutionary psychology, lots of questioning of the new conventional wisdom.