Desire: Women Write About Wanting

Date of Review:

06/08/2008

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Reader Views

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Desire: Women Write About Wanting
Edited by Lisa Solod Warren
Seal Press (2007)
ISBN 9781580052146
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (6/08)
“Desire: Women Write About Wanting” is an outstanding collection of essays by modern-day
female writers. Edited by Lisa Solod Warren, this lineup of fantastic stories opens our eyes to the
great range of emotions and desires each of us possibly carries within.
Brave and smart, challenging our perceptions of what a woman could and would desire at a
particular stage in life, these stories make the reader pause and think repeatedly. While it would be
unlikely -- or better yet, quite impossible for a reader to find herself in each of the twenty-three
stories within “Desire,” I am willing to bet that each of us will be able to connect on a very intimate
level with at least a handful of them, since they encompass a great range of emotions and desires.
Some of them are more intimate than others, some are downright daring and others yet make your
eyes mist with the deep emotions they invoke. All of them are worthwhile reading and all of them
try to answer the very challenging question about that it is that we really, truly, deeply and madly
want and/or desire.
Reading this brilliant collection of essays should make everybody question where they are in their
lives at the moment and whether they have done all that was possible to attain their dreams and
desires, whatever they might be. “Desire: Women Write About Wanting” should be required reading
for all women of legal age -- since there are a few rather graphic pages in the book, which would not
be suitable for very young readers. This book is to inspire, a book to make us dream, a book to make
us question the world and our place in it and on top of all of that, just plain good reading. Grab a
copy for yourself and a couple for other women in your life!