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Full title: Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism. This book was terrific. Katha Pollitt is just so smart. The essays in this book were published in The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New York Times in the 1980s and early 1990s. Most of the essays are responses to current events (there's an essay inspired by the Baby M case, for example, and one about Lorena Bobbitt, and another about Hillary Clinton as first lady). Because the essays are so rooted in current events, they lose a little of their power--but not too much, because, depressingly, a lot of things haven't changed for women in the past 20 years. Overall, though, Pollitt tackles all the hardest issues surrounding American women today, and tackles them with wit and wisdom and common sense. I'd like a copy of this book to keep around for reference.
My reading plan for the rest of December: I'm going to finish off my last two library books and the last two Twilight books I borrowed from Kristina, and then I'm not borrowing anything else. I have absolute scads of unread books and literary journals on my To Read shelf--and really good stuff, too. I'm planning to read things I actually own for the next few months, in the interest of purging out those shelves a bit. I'm going to be moving this spring!
My reading plan for the rest of December: I'm going to finish off my last two library books and the last two Twilight books I borrowed from Kristina, and then I'm not borrowing anything else. I have absolute scads of unread books and literary journals on my To Read shelf--and really good stuff, too. I'm planning to read things I actually own for the next few months, in the interest of purging out those shelves a bit. I'm going to be moving this spring!
