tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post2802753329656956366..comments2023-10-06T08:10:05.853-04:00Comments on Necromancy Never Pays: It's Not That I'm BitterJeannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-61444480830312550162010-01-18T11:35:45.924-05:002010-01-18T11:35:45.924-05:00Jeanne, I love your comments about this book! It ...Jeanne, I love your comments about this book! It is not one that would have interested me; I have enough issues from my Oklahoma upbringing to fill my own volume of hand wringing if I was so inclined. Suffice it to say I'm all for women doing their own thing, teaching our children to take care of themselves and let the chips fall where they may. Who cares about panty lines when you've got chin hairs to contend with. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-17939673461396768422010-01-16T12:09:59.558-05:002010-01-16T12:09:59.558-05:00Rebecca, I don't think she means to be hypocri...Rebecca, I don't think she means to be hypocritical, which is almost worse, really.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-54445892318045822812010-01-15T22:29:30.766-05:002010-01-15T22:29:30.766-05:00Yeah, I don't worry about panty lines in the f...Yeah, I don't worry about panty lines in the first place. <br /><br />And if I did I certainly wouldn't go around telling every other woman not to. I am not a hypocrite. And I don't appreciate people who are. Therefore, this author can keep her book to herself.<br /><br />Thanks for the warning, Jeanne! :)Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02706544792110129160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-20816118784487240082010-01-15T08:39:39.573-05:002010-01-15T08:39:39.573-05:00Jodie, Isn't that going to be YOUR book someda...Jodie, Isn't that going to be YOUR book someday? :-)Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-19265348734161746082010-01-15T07:06:55.611-05:002010-01-15T07:06:55.611-05:00Perhaps she should try writing a book about the im...Perhaps she should try writing a book about the important issues we should be focusing on rather than the ones we shouldn't be focusing on, with helpful hints on how to work effectively against the media image of women?Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11462660276240016464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-60996428390329221942010-01-14T22:03:57.719-05:002010-01-14T22:03:57.719-05:00Kristen, ha, I had just compared this book to I Fe...Kristen, ha, I had just compared this book to I Feel Bad About my Neck while talking to someone on Facebook!<br /><br />Lori, At least I found something to like about this one. I'd hate to think that every time I read a book I wouldn't ordinarily pick out for myself I'd hate everything about it--that would make me seem overly predictable...<br /><br />PAJ, she'll have to comment herself to get it!<br /><br />Jodie, The frustrating thing (I think this was frustrating Kristen, too, from her comment) is that G.B. actually says something like that--that women need to stop worrying about the trivia. But she doesn't succeed at taking her own advice.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-10722361357205116372010-01-14T13:34:29.323-05:002010-01-14T13:34:29.323-05:00Visible underwear lines? I worried about them when...Visible underwear lines? I worried about them when I was sixteen, then I moved on. <br /><br />It does seem people write books like this presume the lowest common denominator of womanly self-awareness/confidence sometimes. Most of us strike our own balence between society's version of beauty and our own (moderated by factors like 'I just don't have time to obsess about my...if I want to make any money')and we all have our own rather irrational beauty quirks that really make no difference in the greater scheme of things(like I don't care what my eyebrows look like but I'd never leave the house without using concealer) but they don't dominate our lifes, or reach the level of obsessive compulsive ticks that stop us from getting on in the world. Sometimes I feel that it's taking the time to have the kind of discussion found in this book that stops us from using our time more effectively and changing the world.Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11462660276240016464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-69082301516271081802010-01-14T12:49:57.501-05:002010-01-14T12:49:57.501-05:00Perhaps you could offer this book to a woman I kno...Perhaps you could offer this book to a woman I know who used a copy of What to Expect: The Toddler Years to level her daughter's crib. Her children are older now (no cribs), but she might need something to level the pool table in her basement.PAJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-42735056882164215452010-01-14T12:39:03.557-05:002010-01-14T12:39:03.557-05:00No thank you - I'll pass. The last thing I nee...No thank you - I'll pass. The last thing I need to do is read a book like this. It really sounds too sophomoric for me. And if <br />I could pay for a cleaning woman I would do so in a heart beat.Lori Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04575196285923366103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-10201051220956867102010-01-13T20:42:02.741-05:002010-01-13T20:42:02.741-05:00Hmmmm. Gina was a prof when I was in grad school....Hmmmm. Gina was a prof when I was in grad school. Seems to me she's still writing the same book she was then and there's still nothing original in it (I Feel Bad About My Neck anyone?). I do feel minor twinges of guilt sometimes over the things that we as a society have been taught to think shameful but then I buck myself up and remember I am accountable to myself. Hope you find someone willing to take the book off your hands. ;-)Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651401312450990123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-84487961176003340672010-01-13T16:20:57.768-05:002010-01-13T16:20:57.768-05:00FreshHell, at least your children are nearing the ...FreshHell, at least your children are nearing the age when you can begin teaching them to do some cleaning. (I did wait until this year to introduce cleaning with caustic chemicals.)Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-49008658906177886342010-01-13T16:08:50.942-05:002010-01-13T16:08:50.942-05:00Hmmm, yeah, I don't need to read anymore books...Hmmm, yeah, I don't need to read anymore books like that one. Frankly, if I could afford to pay somebody (anybody) to clean my house, I'd do it in a heartbeat without a teaspon of guilt. Why guilt? Someone needs that job. I would dearly like a clean house. I just wish I could pay them to do it.FreshHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13051170717740487431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-39548446314368948082010-01-13T16:07:22.991-05:002010-01-13T16:07:22.991-05:00Elizabeth, there's a good South Park episode a...Elizabeth, there's a good South Park episode about Wal-Mart and hand wringing.<br /><br />Harriet, I should have mentioned that you tried to warn me! I see getting rid of a book as a statement in itself.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01374498643286099244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-42045211845973663752010-01-13T15:56:20.141-05:002010-01-13T15:56:20.141-05:00In fairness, Jeanne, I did try to warn you. I fou...In fairness, Jeanne, I did try to warn you. I found this book so unbelievably trite and excessively, thoughtlessly glib that I couldn't bring myself to review it. Waste of ink.Harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180730302829554796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000858382516594426.post-26967788445288010302010-01-13T15:49:31.642-05:002010-01-13T15:49:31.642-05:00Yeah I'll pass on this one--I get cranky enoug...Yeah I'll pass on this one--I get cranky enough when people lecture me about how I should hate WalMart (which sorry but given my economic situation, that's not an option and I mourn that the nearest WalMart is a solid hour's drive south of me). Sometimes positions like that and the ones you've described in this book are possible only if you have enough money or enough time or <i>something</i> to make those choices real. Otherwise it's just an exercise in hand wringing. I'll pass.edj3https://www.blogger.com/profile/11137939126171451654noreply@blogger.com