1. Jan.
Bewertung:2

We have to be the witches they’ve always said we are, and counter their magic with our own. So fine, if you insist. This is a witch hunt. We’re witches, and we’re hunting you. I had high hopes. I loved the idea of a witch hunt and I would have loved it if the author had followed through with this theme. But there were just too many irrelevant essays, for example one essay dealt with her ratings of Adam Sandler movies, while another one was about South Park. Definitely topics I didn’t need in a book about feminism. Next to unnecessary topics, I got bad writing on top of it as well: “[…] real manly men drive trucks guns bang bang toot toot truck deer beer mud truck vroom black smoke logging antlers tits fire and blood.” I’m so glad I didn’t buy this book!

The Witches Are Coming
The Witches Are Comingvon Lindy WestHachette
26. Jan.
Bewertung:3

- not really suitable for a non-US audience because there are a lot of remarks about US pop culture/TV shows from the past and present that I simply don't know - sometimes really really funny, sometimes not - the self-centered essays were not as good as the essays about other topics ("Do, Make, Be, Barf" about Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop was hilarious and amazing, but the essays about Lindy West's own show "Shrill" or how amazing her step daughters are were kind of lame) - she kept repating herself while also not having a red thread that runs through the essays and the book

The Witches Are Coming
The Witches Are Comingvon Lindy WestHachette