Dear Great Book Guru, I am looking forward to a great Fall
weekend in Sea Cliff filled with Halloween happenings. On Sunday from 3 to 4pm we will be at Central
Park for the Cider Social, an annual Sea Cliff Civic Association event, hosted
this year by Heidi Hunt and the her Girl Scout Troop #22. There will be music,
crafts, and treats and hopefully everyone will come in costume. Time for reading will be limited but do you
have something that would make me laugh but make me think ? Halloween Reveler
Dear Halloween Reveler,
This is indeed a fun weekend in Sea Cliff- don't forget the Fire Department's
Halloween Costume party on Saturday night, Oct. 27. I just
finished a very funny, very provocative book:
HOW TO BE A WOMAN by Caitlin Moran, a columnist for the Times of London.
She writes about growing up as one of eight children in an impoverished English
suburb in the1980's but this is not simply an autobiographical sketch .Rather
the author's well met goal is to humanize and universalize feminism. She talks
frankly about body image, motherhood, celebrity worship, weddings, pornography,
and overpriced purses. I laughed aloud throughout the book but also found what
she said disturbing and certainly thought-provoking. She fiercely denounces sexism in its many
subtle and not so subtle forms and always with great wit. Highly recommended!