A review by zoes_human
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer

Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.

DNFed three and a half essays in. It appears to be a book full of essays about middle-class, mostly white, mostly urban, mostly cisgender, and mostly heterosexual women working out their personal issues in relationships. Yay for self-examination, but I'm not particularly interested in reading it. Basically, it's your typical middle class ennui lit, but female this time.

INDIVIDUAL ESSAY RATINGS AND COMMENTS

Excuse Me While I Explode: My Mother, Myself, My Anger
E. S. Maduro
3 stars
Amazingly self-aware, the author examines her conflicting goals and wonders how to find a satisfying future with less anger.

Getting the Milk for Free
Veronica Chambers
2 stars
Ummm ... I just can't relate to this one very much, and I didn't find the point of it to be all that interesting.

Crossing to Safety
Jen Marshall
3 stars
A nice essay about one woman's trip of self-discovery in learning that the relationship "goals" placed before us all weren't actually what she wanted.

>Moving In. Moving Out. Moving On.
Sarah Miller
DNF
Oh man, yet another middle class lady coming to terms with herself. I'm out.