Month: February 2019

Have you watched the newest Star Trek show on Netflix? It is soooo good. Second season of Star Trek: Discovery just started and I hope they will still make many seasons in the future!

The book I read is the first of a series of prequels for the Netflix show. Now, I need to say a disclaimer that I haven’t been a hardcore fan of Star Trek franchise, even though it has been part of my life ever since some of my very early years. My first memories of anything Star Trek related was watching some episodes with my late dad when I was very little and later on re-watching mostly episodes of Star Trek: Next Generation and the more recent movies that premiered some years ago. All of those I enjoyed a lot, but couldn’t really call myself a true fan. Then it happened that with this newest one, Star Trek: Discovery, I felt right at home.

How can it be, after all that the human race went through on Earth in the last few centuries, that some people still haven’t learned there are more important things in life than financial gain?

A couple of words still about the tv show before we get to the book:

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This isn’t really a review, more a recommendation to read this essay. Everything about this book was good, the title says it all.

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

We Should All Be Feminists is an essay that’s modified from Adichie’s TEDx talk and it works very well in written form also.

Continue reading “Book Review: We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie” →

I picked Girls of Riyadh specifically to match one of the prompts for the Reading Challenge I’m participating in, so this book hasn’t been on my to-read list and I don’t think I would’ve read it without the Reading Challenge.

Honestly I’m unsure how to review this book. Overall I did not enjoy it much, but then again the book is of an unfamiliar culture and I’m well aware that some details were lost to me while having a lot more impact on someone else.

I will not become attached to him before he proposes!

Girls of Riyadh reveals snippets of the hidden lives of Saudi women. It concentrates on four (apparently fictional) young women who seem to be of the upper class and they all have challenges in their romantic relationships.

Continue reading “Book Review: Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea” →

I really wanted to like this book. After all it should be right up my alley: Early 1900s England, murder mystery, female protagonist and the author Jessica Fellowes is familiar to me from Downton Abbey companion books that she wrote. My expectations were really high!

Louisa felt her shoulders relax and realized she had had them hunched over for so long.

(I think I never got over Louisa’s guarded character.)

I’m sad to say that I struggled to read it. Mitford Murders didn’t let me down in setting, or the way author Jessica Fellowes writes, but the main characters were just so bland in this book that I just lost interest way too soon and almost did not finish it.

Continue reading “Book Review: The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes” →