In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo
I love juicy biographies, and this was 29 delicious bit-size pieces! They run the gamut; Karbo tries to show them all as being “difficult” in one way or another. Difficult, whatever – they were all interesting and awesome. And I learned things.
Josephine Baker – how did I know next to nothing about this woman? What an amazing life!
Rachel Maddow – OK I shouldn’t admit that I didn’t know Rachel Maddow was gay, but I need to express the weird disappointment I felt at learning that. I always admired how she rocked short hair and glasses. I thought she was a really cool straight woman who rocked short hair and glasses. But she’s lesbian. So the look kind of goes with the territory. I’m sure this should be embarrassing for me not only because of my ignorance but because it surely comes off as not very homo-friendly of me, but I don’t mean anything bad by it!
Eva Peron – I didn’t know much about her either. It was worth having an earworm in my head all of the next day to read about her.
Vita Sackville-West – another learning experience.
Janis Joplin – OK, nothing new for me to learn in that department! Just always fun to read anything about her.
I could go on. Couldn’t wait to get back to this book every night. ( 
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