Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
This book is frustrating. It’s very informative and incredibly interesting (as Liz Gilbert promised in Committed), but it’s very hard to read. The book is organized by periods of history, but jumps around so wildly from anecdote to anecdote in different parts of the world. I find myself almost tired trying to keep up with the one paragraph about this, three paragraphs about that, a page here, a page there, pace of the book. There are all sorts of great moments and things that really make me think, but not enough time is spent on any one anecdote that I can stop to think about. Blah.
I would REALLY like to finish it, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to. Putting in on hold for some solid fiction. View all my reviews »
