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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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(e) Book – The Trouble with women




(e) Book –  The Trouble with women


Author:  Jacky Fleming 
Score: 7/10
Year:  2016
Publisher:  Andrews McMeel 
ISBN 9781449480677 / 978-1-4494-8067-7 
ISBN original book : 9781910931097 
Pages 128 * 

With humour, The trouble with women is an illustrated book, presenting small cartoon vignettes about women's erased history, why so few have been studied about, whether they had been artists, scientists etc. I didn't learn anything new, apart for a couple names, but it's a good, quick, under one hour of fast paced reading and laughing at the texts and images, full of humor and sarcasm. 


This all is about misogyny, how men viewed and then attempted to erase women, block their access to education, locking into a domestic life, and the like. But, since the topic would otherwise be heavy, these texts and cartoons make them much lighter, to the point of laughing at the absurdities that all these men had created in the erasure of women. 

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