Winding the Year Down: November and December Reading
As I mull over the usual new year stuff (does money from aunts get reported on tax forms? Why is January evil? Why is it sixty-five degrees out? Okay, that's not usual), it occurs to me that there's some business from last year I never finished up: the book list
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As for the Ozark trilogy, I read it and liked it, but I was 19 and much more radical of a feminist than I am now, so I completely see where your mileage may vary on that.
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It's the ones that get read when I should be cramming for exams that are a problem, see. "I have a final tomorrow - I think I shall stay up all night reading fiction!" *Headdesk, Or How I Realized I Was Never Getting a Chemistry Degree*
As for the Ozark trilogy, I read it and liked it, but I was 19 and much more radical of a feminist than I am now, so I completely see where your mileage may vary on that.
I'm a tediously moderate feminist, so that might explain my reaction. Gender equity and reciprocal respect are good things in my worldview, so the Ozark vibes may have thrown me off.
An interesting counter might be an Ozark novel written from the male point of view. Do they feel vaguely subjugated by their women? I'm suddenly horribly tempted to handwave this into a situation where neither side really talks to the other, so both sides think they alone run the world.
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