Spinster : Making a Life of One's Own

from mossagate

I received this as part of LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This is maybe a timely book for me, being I'm divorcing. I'm glad I read it and I enjoyed the historical aspects and learning about her five "awakeners", but I'm also glad that after reading it, I know I'm not like the author. I can see may...

from quaintlittlehead

This book was an excellent read, though not at all what I expected. I thought this would be more of an analytical non-fiction describing the reasons behind the declining marriage rate in this country and the effects it has on the single woman, but it was more of a memoir entwined with a history l...

from TanyaTomato

This book is on my to be read again and again list. Pick any chapter and there is something that expands your thoughts on single women in a better light then usually portrayed. It's encouraging to note the independent woman from the past as an influence to building today's standards. That the adv...

from dizzyweasel

SPINSTER, Kate Bolick's memoir of her life single and coupled, is a kind of literary chimera. It's in part a story of Kate's dating life, in part a bildungsroman, and (in greatest part) a selective biography of five female writers, some better known than others. Bolick calls them her "awakeners,"...

from DMO

I received this book from LT's Early Reviewer program. I was really looking forward to this book, but I admit that the self-absorption at the beginning of the book was a bit much for me. I became more interested in what this author had to say as she explored the lives of other women writers, but ...