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also at one point she includes a quote from “ a friend who has a phd in magic lamps” (???????) and then simply says “i’m stilll thinking about what that means” with no further elaboration. jennifer, you’re the one writing the book! why put it in if you have nothing to say about it! or like, take a minute to work through the idea and reflect on it? since you’re, you know, WRITING A BOOK? and reflecting on ideas???

also so many sentences she writes just, on their own, have NOTHING to say. like this, describing hildegard of bingen: “for women, in particular, so much begins with this medieval mystic: she raised her voice and owned her power when everything conspired to silence both.” huh?? btw she has not at this point done anything to explain how HoB “owned her power” much less what ‘much’ beginning for women is supposed to mean

he memoir aspect of this is uninteresting and insubstantial, and too much of the sections that should be focussed on actual art history or criticism verge into auto theory(or basically, the author just interrupting her book to talk about herself all the time) in a way that leaves a bad taste in my mouth

i’m interested enough in a lot of these artists and the spiritualism theme that i want to keep reading, but from what i have read so far.... oof.

really want to get into this but im so troubled by the fact that she had to leave marmeen and tchatcha behind idk if i can continue reading 😭

really interesting and this has nothing to do with the book but the audiobook narrator keeps pronouncing wb yeats’ name as “yeets” and its making me crazyyyyy

the blueprint for knives out??

miss marple lesbian ally

so good it’s hurting my feelings

this book is sooooo good but do NOT check the reviews(tons of horrified homophobes)

every time they reference a real world celebrity instead of a fake taylor jenkins reid celebrity i get sooooo disappointex

colorado springs mentioned!

(this is not a generous reading but) fav bit so far is when joan didion calls lesbians and women who dont want to get married childish. lmao ??

main takeaway so far is that mark zuckerberg hasn’t seen the social network OR citizen kane. sad