Thread by @_CarolJAdams

A book review by #ScottBradfield in last week's @nytimesbooks praised #MurderatLakeMaggiore
(Multiple positive statements can be found in its publisher's, @NewVesselPress , tweets. The review convinced me to get the book through @audible_com 1/ nyti.ms/2r9mPsi

@nytimesbooks @NewVesselPress @audible_com praised as an intellectual #murdermystery, it quickly instead became a #misogynist murder. The victim. a woman, is a #shrew. The protagonists--two men, the husband and a young friend discuss women as consumable objects (#thesexualpoliticsofmeat) /2

@nytimesbooks @NewVesselPress @audible_com the women are exchanged, #sexualized, #objectified, discussed as though they are #food, & sexually devoured. The reviewer does not note this, even in this era of #MeToo instead discussing #triangulation as though that & not women's objectification is the engine of the book. /3

@nytimesbooks @NewVesselPress @audible_com for the reviewer the book concerns "the small pleasures of your own little boat" -- that "your" so deceptive; your own little boat, if you are a man after World War 2, maybe. But there is no universal experience being recounted in this book. /4

@nytimesbooks @NewVesselPress @audible_com How differently two people can experience the same book! I wish the review had looked at the engine driving the book, which was not really triangulation. Some of us might want to skip a book that once again situates women as objects discussed & appropriated by men.