This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch

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… show more.