by Marge Piercy
It gets really good around page 200. It's more of a thinkpiece than an action piece, and once I accepted that, I enjoyed it. The depressing parts felt sadly modern.
It gets really good around page 200. It's more of a thinkpiece than an action piece, and once I accepted that, I enjoyed it. The depressing parts felt sadly modern.
There were times when I was so frustrated with the main character. She was driving me crazy. She was walking through an entirely different world and assuming everything was the same. I realized why this was bothering me - I was wanting and expecting her to react more like a science fiction reader. (...
Couldn't finish. The story was just all over the place and I felt like checking myself into an asylum from the craziness.
I was first introduced to the novels and poetry of Marge Piercy when I was in college and very focused on the writings of women, especially feminist writings. In going through a bunch of books I had been keeping at my parents' house, I discovered boxes of books I probably haven't read in over ten ye...
I liked it. She vividly portrayed the ways in which women, especially women of color are discounted, I could really feel the anger at times - but Consuela was never a pathetic victim, she was in there fighting, and okay mostly losing, but not giving up. And her visions/fantasies of the future were...
At last - a book I've been meaning to put on the wish list and that's on one of my group's Reads next month. (Even better - my library has a copy in house!)************************Rating: 3.3-3.5 starsIf the last two novels I had read before this had been Paul McAuley's The Quiet War and Bruce Sterl...
This is my favorite kind of feminist book, akin in many ways to the stories of Octavia Butler and Joanna Russ. Consuelo is a woman living a hopeless life in modern America. Her lover is dead, her child has been taken from her, and there is literally no one alive who respects her. She is mired in a ...
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