As I work my way through the book list, I will post short book reviews here. 

First quarter of book: Folding pages, scribbling notes, excited to read about psychological transformation and the concept of metamorphosis from a Jungian/feminist perspective.

Second quarter of book: Getting bored slogging through what has suddenly turned into an academic mire, but soldiering forward in hopes that it will be worth the trouble.

Third quarter of book: When shit gets too Jungian, shit can get too magical. The book starts relying on a binary view of gender; ideas of “the masculine” and “the feminine” as inherent and opposing “forces” which the author then proceeds to define the shit out and apply to EV-AR-Y-THING. There is a heavy emphasis on the troubles of upper middle class, middle-aged white women. (Wheee.) Eventually the book descends into a complete mess of weirdly sexist crap with some bits of weirdly racist shit about people in India being so exotic and free and then some half-baked dream analysis.

Last part of book: *skimming while on toilet and eventually tossing on the floor in disgust and disappointment*