DNF @ 61% My god I cannot listen to another 7 hours of this. I’m bored out of my mind. Just statistic after statistic, broken up by a short cannibal sDNF @ 61% My god I cannot listen to another 7 hours of this. I’m bored out of my mind. Just statistic after statistic, broken up by a short cannibal story for a paragraph or two. I don’t think I remember a single thing from the first two thirds....more
Received this through NetGalley, does not effect my review (clearly). I skimmed most of this after about the 20% mark. At that point, the book changesReceived this through NetGalley, does not effect my review (clearly). I skimmed most of this after about the 20% mark. At that point, the book changes from mostly anecdotes from women who lived through absolutely horrific medical experiences to nonstop COVID. And a lot of it wasn’t really medical in nature, and most of it didn’t have anything to do with pain, or how it was killing women.
The synopsis was incredibly misleading, as was the title. If I wanted a book about COVID, I would have requested a book about COVID. I have books about COVID on my bookshelf. I wanted a book about medical professionals not taking women seriously, and this book is not that. ...more
Thank you to NetGalley, Perseus Books, and PublicAffairs for an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Since I don’t feel comfortaThank you to NetGalley, Perseus Books, and PublicAffairs for an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Since I don’t feel comfortable tanking the rating of this book just because I couldn’t get into it, (which is a shame, I was really interested in this subject!) I’m going to leave it alone, but I probably would have given it one or two stars.
To start, there’s a truly excessive number of quotations and initialisms. For the quotations, Williams quotes from dozens and dozens of people, and it’s hard to keep up with. And the initialisms! On every page there’s probably two or three different ones, and I had to keep going back to see what they stood for. I get why you can’t keep spelling out “All African People’s Conference” every time, but I personally could not keep up with them all.
I ended up skipping around until about halfway through and then I DNF’d. Williams was incredibly thorough in her research but this reads more like a research paper, and it was hard to get into. ...more
I had to stop because of that god awful accent the narrator was using for the enslaved people I did a full body cringe every time it was so exaggerateI had to stop because of that god awful accent the narrator was using for the enslaved people I did a full body cringe every time it was so exaggerated. I want to read this book but I cannot listen to it. ...more
This is a really useful book, even if you don’t have AFRID. My favorite bit of advice was picking five new food items per week and trying them out, anThis is a really useful book, even if you don’t have AFRID. My favorite bit of advice was picking five new food items per week and trying them out, and I figured I could try that, or even just one and try cooking it different ways.
However, and I’m sure this is no fault of Cambridge University Press, but there were so many formatting issues that it was nearly impossible to read the advance copy I got through NetGalley that I had to give up reading. I still got some useful information from the book, but wow, it was frustrating. ...more
What the hell is this magic shit? Who decided that sending off their (female) children to possibly be toWow I just absolutely cannot stand this book.
What the hell is this magic shit? Who decided that sending off their (female) children to possibly be tortured to death and/or murdered by other children was a great idea? Why is Tyranny such a terrible character? “I’m not like those other girls!!!” Fuck off.
You can’t write a book about feminism and have the main character think like that. Jesus Christ.
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