A rallying cry for women who are tired of carrying the world on their shoulders.
A compact, feminist self-help manual that encourages women to stop trying to save others and instead save themselves.
Mobley (Agile!, 2014), a self-proclaimed “Wonder Woman,” draws on her own life experiences to show readers how they can use their “strength, intelligence and talents to be far more than the glue that holds life together” for other people. For much of her adult life, the author says, she was addicted to cleaning up others’ messes and was determined to prove she could do it all, including succeeding in the male-dominated technology industry and pushing herself to her physical limits with exercise. But it came at a cost, and stress and health problems eventually forced her to re-evaluate how she approached her life. Now a life coach, Mobley aims to help women give themselves permission to say “no” to needy friends, family, and co-workers. She also urges them to re-evaluate their impulses to act as rescuers or micromanagers. Once women stop dedicating so much time to tasks that “drain our personal energy,” she says, they can focus on discovering and fulfilling their own unique purposes. The idea that modern women are overburdened and overstretched isn’t revolutionary, but Mobley offers a slightly different spin on the topic. Most refreshingly, she sees her self-improvement tips as both a personal and political project, rejecting the tired idea that women as a group can improve their situation solely by changing their own thinking and behavior: “Want to be less tired? Get behind feminism,” she urges in a chapter on the ongoing fight for women’s rights. She’s also funny and self-deprecating, peppering her book with anecdotes from her own life in a friendly, engaging style. The result is a work that’s more like a heart-to-heart with a friend than an overwhelming to-do list. Even readers who are skeptical about the value of self-help tomes may warm to this effort.
A rallying cry for women who are tired of carrying the world on their shoulders.Pub Date: April 12, 2016
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 106
Publisher: Difference Press
Review Posted Online: Aug. 30, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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