Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

13 reviews

summerslittlelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Misogyny, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

daniofthewood's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Excrement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Racism, Suicide, Police brutality, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

viy's review against another edition

The start is good, but once the story shifted to being over the pandemic, it got way more difficult to enjoy. The romance starts being told over email, which prevents us from getting Sally's narration and thoughts, as well as makes the romance seem weaker and less engaging overall. I didn't mind the political interjections for the most part, but it started getting annoying after a while, since some of them didn't seem to add anything to the story or characters, and instead served to show us that the characters are "good people" who go to protests, which felt off to me considering they're discussing real tragedies that happened like, 4 years ago. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Misogyny, Racism, and Police brutality

kyriannaj's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

This book heavily deals with COVID in the immediate summer of 2020 with uncertainty, anxieties, and all other political events that happened in the US during that time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Alcohol

danikajoan's review against another edition

informative lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I enjoyed the second and third parts of this book much more than the first, and I trudged through the first part because I’ve enjoyed other books by this author so I was hopeful it would redeem itself, which it only sort of did? My main issue with the first part of the book is that I didn’t find the main character (or most of the sketches she was pitching) funny, with the exception of the dog internet searches. The behind-the-scenes SNL stuff was interesting but I prefer to read Amy Poehler or Tina Fey’s memoirs for that.  

later, I  really enjoyed the emails and the start of their relationship, but there are so many communication issues and unhealthy dynamics that it was hard to root for them as a couple.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

amphytrite's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Excrement, and Alcohol

haleysversion's review against another edition

funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mraddd's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Medical content, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

kcarney86's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

reading_diaries's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This book loses a star for me just because of the pandemic - if it didn't have the pandemic, it would be a 5 star read for sure.

The way I think of this book is in 2 parts - 1st part being in 2018 before the pandemic and the 2nd part being 2020 in the pandemic. The first part of the book was incredibly strong. It was hilarious and had me laughing for hours. The second part of this book really hit the ground for me. It was just so slow and I was just waiting for it to pick back up again. I think the pandemic could have been completely removed from the second half and each story beat would have still worked. 

I thought that while Sally was a bit "pick me" and annoying at times, she was a good character. I will say that while she's a writer, she still has some issues communicating. I wish she would have spoken her mind more and not shut down her feelings or ideas because of others.

The fact that she pulled the "Danny Horst Rule" from TNO really gutted me because if the roles were reversed, no man would have pulled an incredibly controversial and sexist skit - no matter how long he'd known or been friends with the woman it was about. Not to say that Danny would've had the skit go through but there are several male comedians that would have had no issue with continuing the skit and it stings that Sally felt the need to pull the skit.

Noah is cute. I also think he has some problem communicating but overall he's a golden retriever guy. I think the biggest problem I had with him was his lack of awareness for his privilege.

While I thought it was cute that he redecorated his office so that Sally had somewhere to work, the idea he had of her just quitting her job so she could live in his house for free and write really bugged me. I loved that he was thinking of her career but him not acknowledging that the reason she was angry was because he thought she would be find quitting her job for no real reason. Sally has stability at TNO and that's her income, she cant just quit that to be a fully time writer without a backup plan. And no staying at your booty call's mansion FOR FREE is not a backup plan. It just rubbed me the wrong way that he thought she'd be fine just giving up everything in New York for him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, and Sexism