Shutterbabe, Adventures in Love and War
Did quite a bit of reading at the cabin, including Shutterbabe, Adventures in Love and War by Deborah Copaken Kogan. Here's an excerpt: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0301/dk_intro.html
She writes very well and most of the book was quite a page turner, but in the end I wasn't entirely sure what the point was. Although it was interesting reading for the most part, I think she may have been trying to do too much in this memoir. For awhile it seems she was a thrillseeker and then when she decided to have children, she decided she had been living too dangerously for being a mother. She went from that to discussing, minimally, how difficult it was for her to be a fulltime mother and a fulltime worker. She also experienced a lot of personal violence, and I found the way she talked about it - almost in passing - more than a little odd. So, she experienced a lot of gender related challenges, but didn't, in the end, fully process any of them, I think. You decide.
She writes very well and most of the book was quite a page turner, but in the end I wasn't entirely sure what the point was. Although it was interesting reading for the most part, I think she may have been trying to do too much in this memoir. For awhile it seems she was a thrillseeker and then when she decided to have children, she decided she had been living too dangerously for being a mother. She went from that to discussing, minimally, how difficult it was for her to be a fulltime mother and a fulltime worker. She also experienced a lot of personal violence, and I found the way she talked about it - almost in passing - more than a little odd. So, she experienced a lot of gender related challenges, but didn't, in the end, fully process any of them, I think. You decide.
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