An absolutely fascinating read — I think this is the highest density of pull-quotes I’ve ever taken from one book, just going off the number of pages in my notebook I filled whilst copying stuff down to prepare for the book club discussion.
I went back and forth a lot in how I felt about it, past that fascination: there’s a great deal of what the book is espousing that I very much agree with and would like to see, but there’s also parts where I felt myself resisting the ideas. Either a flat-out “that couldn’t work, could it?” or just a “that’s a lovely idea, but we’ll never actually get everyone to agree to it.” It’s the former that I want to spend more time thinking about, and that have me looking forward to the actual book club discussion; it’s the latter that I think I’d rather avoid thinking about, at least until I’ve got a bit more energy available to set myself tilting at those windmills to try to change some minds.
Overall, an absolutely fascinating read; also felt quite fitting that this one was my first ebook read via the Bookshop app.1 Well worth the read; check it out.2
- Do keep in mind, future reader, that I have a lengthy queue of these posts; at the time I wrote this, Bookshop’s app had been out for less than a month. I’m not that behind the times, particularly when it comes to support a business whose ideals I very much support! ↩
- This is a Bookshop affiliate link – if you buy it from here, I get a little bit of commission. It won’t hurt my feelings if you buy it elsewhere; honestly, I’d rather you check it out from your local library, or go to a local book store. I use Bookshop affiliate links instead of Amazon because they distribute a significant chunk of their profits to small, local book stores. ↩