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http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/what-women-think-about-writing-3898

My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – on women’s health and trauma | Books | The Guardian

from a reporter on the Maxwell trial who had the quandary breaking the story post-verdict that 1 of the jurors may have withheld childhood sexual abuse on his pre-selection survey.

Noting it's her followup book to "I Choose Elena" I also have a weird juxtaposition just having seen the not completely satisfying Polanski/Seigneur movie "Based on a True Story" on a successful writer who successfully delves into personal struggles but is now dealing with writer's block & depression & a clingy admirer as she takes on her next book.

Though that's not fair, as this *is* based on Osborne-Crowley's own traumatic experience. But the lines of people awaiting autographs who were deeply touched by the movie character's writing, and just reviewing a bunch of self-help habit-changing apps and days of isolating flu I'm touched by all the new social insights and madness and delirious attempts to make sense of our socio-psychological maelstroms on Facebook and in our Covid-mangled real lives.

The Guardian review lays out the quandary for us all - how to take the obviously valuable and defensible new insights, whether these are really "woke" topics or just dialing into age-old personal calamities, tragedies, and difficult struggles - but find a structure for them that actually works, provides a satisfying setting to describe & understand and perhaps find some closure rather than lots of disturbed emotion with little resolution.

Lots of companies did search engines before Google - but Google's results in 1999 suddenly felt right, useful, satisfying, actionable. Perhaps that's the kind of aha/sea change we're waiting for in these current issues - I struggle to find a proper name for them even (and the one comment below on the lack of non-binaryness in a book that name checks non-binary tips off 1 complication of many), but say one worthy of or eliciting a new Simone de Beauvoir.

More positive reviews at Goodreads