(Not including usual link to Hive - as I don't want to encourage you to buy this book...)
This book has great
reviews – not just on the cover, but online too – as I looked
them up after I decided to stop reading it.
I rarely give up on
a book, but in this case I didn't finish part 1 of 4. Why? Because I
found it so misogynistic – we seemed to be following weak women who
could only find their existence by reference to a great man.
Maybe if I had read
on the book would have rebalanced that picture, but I really couldn't
be bothered to put the effort in to find out.
In the weeks since
my attempt at reading this, the media has been dominated by the
stories of Harvey Weinstein and the associated sex scandals – which
centre on the unhealthy power dynamics between men and women which
have allowed men to get away with their actions for far too long –
the same power dynamics that are uncritically depicted in Mrs
Hemingway.
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