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Justice Provocateur: Jane Tennison and Policing in Prime Suspect

Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurik

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Justice Provocateur focuses on Prime Suspect, a popular British television film series starring...

The Red Word

Sarah Henstra

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A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go,...

Jenny Houle (24 KP) rated Literally Me in Books

Jan 13, 2018

Literally Me

Julie Houts | 2017 | Humor & Comedy

8.0

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I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for an unbiased opinion.

We live in a world where everyone can become "famous" in a matter of mere moments. Houts has a devote following on Instagram where she is considered "Instagram's favorite illustrator". To me, this collection of dark and satirical illustrated essays ran like a stream of entertaining consciousness best enjoyed while just a touch stoned. Would I buy this book as a gift for someone else? Probably not. Would I recommend following Houts on Instagram for entertainment value? Absolutely, and already have (she's jooleeloren on Instagram).

My favorite from the book: "How To Be A Perfect Feminist", though the adventures of the four women of the Apocalypse were pretty great, too.

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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated The Second Time Around (1961) in Movies

May 25, 2019

The Second Time Around (1961)

1961 | Comedy, Family, Western

7.0

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Debbie Reynolds

Thelma Ritter

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I was initially disappointed that a lot of the humor was seeing the main female character in so many humiliating pratfalls and fails, however, it turns around some with Thelma Rotter's strong female role and her hiring Debbie Reynolds' character as a female ranch hand instead of hiring a male ranch hand, Reynolds' determination in working hard to support her family instead of taking the easy way out and becoming someone's wife and relying on a man to support her, and Reynolds' eventually becoming sheriff of this frontier town. There is a lot of corny humor in this movie but it's worth a watch. It was great seeing Andy Griffith in the movie and as one of her love interests.

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Dana (24 KP) rated On Liberty and Other Essays in Books

Mar 23, 2018

I am not a fan of reading essays. Though they give interesting views, they are not entertaining in the slightest. I was more intrigued by the last essay out of all of them which is called "The Subjection of Women." It seems as if he is a feminist of the Victorian era, which is very cool to be able to see. He has a lot of good ideas in there that are still very relevant today. Out of all of these essays, I would recommend this one out of all of them.

The one thing I didn't like about any of these essays is that they are all very repetitive. They seem to say the same thing over and over again which gets very boring, very quickly.

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Rachel Maria Berney (114 KP) rated The Yellow Wall-Paper in Books

Dec 4, 2018 (Updated Dec 4, 2018)

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If you love gothic, read this.

I had to read this for my English module at uni, and am really glad I did.
On the surface its really gothic and really creepy. Very well written and the author paints a great picture of someone going insane.
Underneath the surface, this is an attack on patriarchy in the enlightenment period. Knowing this makes it a completely different read, not so much gothic and more feminist and historic. There's a clear aim that to show the reader how enlightened men drive women insane.
On a side note, Charlotte gives us the first image of a creeping scary thing, way before we see this in horror movies in the 20th century.