by Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran has quite quickly taken up residence as one of my new favorite writers. Though she is a renowned columnist across the pond, it all started for me with her New York Times bestselling book How to Be A Woman, a memoir of Caitlin’s girl- and womanhood. Spanning all matter of subjects relat...
Despite the fact that I think Caitlin Moran doesn't really "get" YA fiction (Caitlin Moran Thinks There Are No Sexy YA Books), I still think she is hilarious and brilliant (and hopefully, with the forthcoming release of her first YA novel, she'll "get it" just a bit more). Recently I saw a list of 2...
I didn't understand half of what she was talking about. Not terrible but not very good. I'm glad it's over.
Caitlin Moran is a British journalist who writes columns for The Times, and How to Be A Woman is part autobiography and part feminist rant. It tells of her working class background and experiences and also includes her views on being a woman and on feminist issues such as abortion and beauty myths....
I really enjoyed How to be a Woman, Moran's previous work which dealt with feminism and sparked a debate among a huge amount of people on feminism's place in today's society, which was really cool. Moranthology is essentially a collection of her columns that she writes for The Times, which I was sup...
Moran's breezy delivery can strike one as dismissive of other points of view, but I think that's just the delivery. I found the memoir-ish parts of this book much more interesting than the philosophizing about feminism. Worth a read, no question.
As far as I'm concerned, Caitlin Moran is a genius. Her style is chaotic and chatty on the surface, and she seems to have real problems understanding the semicolon, but under the bonnet every sentence is assembled with such beautiful precision. Her phrases are spring-loaded to take you by surprise. ...
Caitlin Moran is back to her vulgar and hilarious self, this time in a collection of her columns previously unavailable in the United States unless one was very good at Google. Her off kilter sense of humor displayed previously in How to Be a Woman once again supplements her surprisingly insightful ...
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