I’ve been reading paranormal series as a way to learn about these so I might write my own series.
This series is so vital, so real, so personable—I related to every character’s storyline enough that I stayed riveted, and even re-read the end of the final book twice! It was that good. When authors create a world, it’s so easy to see holes in it as a reader, and there simply isn’t one in these amazing books.
At the bottom line, it’s about saving the world (aren’t they all?) and I am very committed to making that happen. Reading about saving the world is helping to save it.
Ancient feuds. Demonic forces bent on destruction. Oh, and apparently vampires are real. Della didn’t sign up for any of this.
She didn’t sign up for violence and mayhem in the streets of the Big Easy. She didn’t sign up to be a magnet for an evil force intent on hunting down the reincarnated souls of its enemies.
She sure as hell didn’t sign up for rescue by a sinfully tempting vampire lord and his fashion-model-gorgeous friends. Especially since he seems convinced that she’s the living embodiment of his long lost human mate.
Jack Holland was an incredible writer. When he told men he was writing a book about misogyny, one group expressed surprise that a man would write such a book. His reply was, “Why? We invented it.” How can you not thoroughly love a man who could answer that? More, he’s done his homework, and done it exceedingly well.
He takes us through the history of this dreadful manifestation of patriarchy sympathetically and carefully. The links he creates historically are breath-taking, and cage-rattling they’re so sensible. Every woman in the world should read this book, and so should every human who knows a woman.
In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history?
The result takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through centuries, continents and civilizations as it looks at both historical and contemporary attitudes to women. Encompassing the Church, witch hunts, sexual theory, Nazism and pro-life campaigners, we arrive at today's developing world, where women are increasingly and disproportionately at risk because of radicalised religious belief, famine, war and disease. Well-informed and researched,…
I read this book for research for a speculative fiction series I’m still writing. By the time this is published, I’ll have written three of the four books.
One of the issues in my book is abortion during the Gilded Age so I read this to find out what happened before then. And then, Roe v. Wade was overturned by this irresponsible Supreme Court—activate feminism immediately, do not pass Go, do not collect $200. I was outraged, and I still am.
Women, because of our bodies, are once again under the legal gun for no reason other than that we are women. No, no, no. It’s just plain wrong. A female Irish cab driver said to Gloria Steinem, “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!”
**Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction (2023)**
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Jezebel Rising, set in 1897, tells the story of the four Bailey Sisters—yes, as in Barnum &—and is based on the premise (as I suppose most novels are) of what if? What if there were women in 1897 who didn't follow the social conventions of their time? What if women spoke up? What if women insisted they be heard? Jezebel is the youngest of the four what-if women who make life a whole lot different than it actually was at the turn of the century. Predicated on the notion that recorded history, always written in hindsight, is actually made by individual or small-group local change first, the novel is a combination of historical fiction and speculative fiction. Hence, what if...?
