Advantages: Fast, fun read Disadvantages: Feminism-lite
How would you feel if someone called you a bitch? Outraged? Hurt? Angry? Elizabeth Wurtzel says you should feel proud. She argues that difficult women should be applauded, not chastised, for being courageous enough to swing a powerful personality. Wu ...
Advantages: Brilliant, witty survival guide to life Disadvantages: None
...If you don't want to be a Bridget Jones, buy this book. It's not about being a bitch at all, but about how young women can live the best life possible. It's written with an abundance commonsense and humour, rather than the self-righteous psychobabble th ...
Advantages: Refreshing, fun and spunky Disadvantages: Won't change your life (but might cheer you up!)
...Elizabeth Wurtzel is best known for "Prozac Nation", her candid first-hand account of depression (reviewed separately). This short non-fiction book is written in a similar style, self-deprecating and at the same time bitchy and gutsy. The book consists of ...
...The Times calls Terry Pratchett "One of the most interesting and critically underrated novelists we have…" .
My regular readers will know that I have no quarrel with that assessment. I came across the man and his work in about 1994, if the inscripti ...
Advantages: Maybe a ground breaking book Disadvantages: None.
It was in the early 1970's that Nancy Friday a well educated American author published perhaps the first book on woman's sexual fantasies.A book that finally unmasked this so called taboo subject. It was idle curiosity that drove Friday to spend 3 years r ...
