This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch
Book description
A hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.
Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the…
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It's a wonderful book, eminently readable and very, very important. Everybody should read it!
Carvan uses her obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch as a starting point, but she takes the reader along as she discovers the importance of play—of any activity that has no other purpose than bringing one pleasure. She also makes a convincing case for how institutional sexism has forced girls to give up play in order to become wives and mothers, while “boys must be boys.”
I particularly liked that she shared every step of her journey, rather than presenting her conclusions as fact. And wait ‘til you…