I enjoyed this. I enjoy Hurley’s non-fiction writing much more than her fiction so far. Which is sad, I want to LOVE her fiction writing, but so far it’s just not been up my alley. There were two stand-out essays in this collection, The Horror Novel You’ll Never Have to Live: Surviving Without Health Insurance and We Have Always Fought: Challenging the “Women, Cattle, and Slaves” Narrative. The latter being the reason I discovered Hurley in the first place, and which fuelled my decision to purchase The Geek Feminist Revolution.

The former was even more horrifying than when Hurley wrote it last year, as one of the first acts the “President-elect” Trump intends to do once he takes office, is to repeal the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. It will be truly terrifying to live in the US again. ( )

Very, very good. Made me think of all the tiny ways in everyday life that the narrative is skewed and needs to be pushed and changed and moved forward. And, how my own thinking excuses things and how that's BS and I need to examine and question more. For the last month I've been thinking on narratives in fiction that I've liked and that I've hated and really looking at my thinking about what parts made me uncomfortable. Was it me or was it the story or was it????

I will be thinking and questioning things much more closely and looking for more reading experiences that keep me thinking and questioning. ( )

I loved this book, and even though I wish I had read it when it came out, I also feel like reading it right now, with all the things going on in the news, was really cathartic. ( )

I think I would have enjoyed this more if I had read them as individual essays. Multiple chapters were about the same subject, just different examples. I found myself just skipping large chunks.
I did enjoy the chapters about her struggle with health care (very depressing, yet inspiring) and how she writes.
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A righteously angry and personal call to arms. KH is a new hero of mine. Now to read her novels. ( )