Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
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From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s.
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I really struggled with the rating on this one and really wish there could be .5 increments! I was distracted by the pacing and structure of the narrative as well as some overwrought language, but the content and message are so amazing! Content - ****, Narrative - ** so I'll average it out.
I'll start by saying I'm not like a Sleater-Kinney superfan by any means, but I love Carrie Brownstein from Portlandia and other stuff! This book is beautifully written and has some fantastic lines about anxiety and the patriarchy and the power of doing stuff and of being a fan of stuff. It's really great. She does go through S-K kind of album by album, and I did enjoy reading about the process even if I haven't listened to all of their albums (though I'm sure a bigger S-K fan would get more out of those parts of the book than I did).
I'm really too young to remember most of the Riot Grrl era but I still love reading about it.
IMPORTANT SPOILER: there is a chapter about how Carrie's dogs killed her cat and IT'S VERY UPSETTING
a little thin, but an interesting insider perspective on riotgrrl and band culture in the Pacific Northwest
