isobel’s Reviews > The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World > Status Update

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

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.