Women Who Run with the Wolves

I think giving this a star rating is highly personal, more so than with fiction. I read this on my own because I'd always heard about it, not for a class/etc. I loved the way each chapter took a myth or two (from many different cultures) and analyzed it. Some of the analyses about being wounded & finding yourself were things I needed to hear when I was a bit younger, and at this point in my journey, they echoed things I'd already thought. So that's what I mean about the rating being personal: had I come across this book when I was, say, 20, I might have given it 5 stars. For me now, it wasn't quite as revelatory, and so I found the intricate and sometimes repetitive writing style a little slow. It's gorgeous, but also heavy (which I think it's meant to be).

Bottom line: I would recommend this to anyone – yes, not just women – with an interest in self-discovery and healing, as well as the power of myth. But my recommendation would come with the grain of salt that you can't expect all of it to be super-relevant: there's so much there that you'll have to pick and choose what speaks to you at this moment.

I don't know what I expected out of this, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for. I'm having a lot of trouble focusing on it, so I'm going to move on.

3.75 rounded up.

Great book to remind you of the strength of women. Nice inclusion of familiar and new myths/fables.

If moist is a work you dislike, then this might not be the book for you. It is said often.

Unfortunately the Jungian analysis requires a level of buy-in that i just don't think is justified. it's an interesting breakdown of feminine cultural signifiers but like a lot of Jung it extrapolates socially constructed traits into metaphysical universal truths with little proof or reasoning beyond assertion. Not really worth the time alas

Love the history of where these tales came, and how they reveal the strength of women, and how that strength has been ripped from us throughout the years. Very enlightening.