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Cargando... Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not) (2011)por Gina Barreca (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I wanted to love this book - it sounded witty and fun. But I struggled to get through it. Although I love my glass or two or three of wine, I couldn't connect with the stories. Too bad - it seemed so promising. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I just couldn't do this book. I tried, I really did. From the cover copy and artwork, I thought this would be an enjoyable book. No such luck. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I requested this book based solely on the title and I was surprised at it's content. The "You've come a long way baby!" tone is not my cup of tea. I get the idea that the editor wanted to put across but I'm just not buying it. I couldn't finish reading it. I'm obviously not the proper audience for this book so maybe my review should be disregarded.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I was really excited about the concept of Make Mine a Double when I read the Early Reviewers description. Drinking (or choosing not to drink) is often for complex reasons, and I was intrigued by the concept of looking at such reasons from a woman's standpoint. Now having read it, I have to say I was somewhat disappointed. The tone of Make Mine a Double was overwhelming self-righteous. Maybe I'm sheltered, but I've never been looked down on because I drink. From the essays in this book, I now wonder if that is a rarity. Almost every author talks about the stigma of women drinking, how they have every right to drink. There are essays about being one of the boys and drinking as a mom, all with the tone "I have every right to be here! Stop judging me!" I just wanted to read one essay in which the author simply stated, "I drink because it is fun, judgement be damned." Maybe that makes me a bad feminist. Still, I just wish a lot of these women would lighten up a bit. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. It's a book that is composed of many essays, written from the points of views of different women. The subject matter centers around alcohol and what drinks mean and how alcohol plays a part in people's lives. As another reviewer wrote, the cover does not mesh with the vibe of the book. I thought the stories would be light, humorous, and However, the essays were controlled, and not that interesting. I really wanted to like the book, because it is an interesting premise, but overall it fell short. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Make Mine a Double pours together a collection of witty, intelligent, and provocative pieces about women and their beverages of choice. Edited by humorist and academic mahatma Gina Barreca, the twenty-eight original essays here come from a diverse community of voices from ages twenty-one to seventy-nine, including such luminaries as Fay Weldon, Wendy Liebman, Amy Bloom, Liza Donnelly, Nicole Hollander, Beth Jones, Dawn Lundy Martin, and many others. Equal parts paean to spirits, an open discussion of drinking (or not drinking), and a call to feminists everywhere to say “salut,” Make Mine a Double shimmers with thoughtfulness, humor, and self-examination. These tales of women’s complex relationships with alcohol are the story of every woman’s effort to find her independence and sense of belonging, be it at a college party, a high-powered cocktail party, or on a stool at the neighborhood watering hole. Barreca and the writers have agreed that all their profits from the book will be donated to Windham Hospital’s “Gina’s Friends” fund, which aids women in need. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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