Loved cringeville, everybody has a cringe moment but imagine going to a place called Cringeville. I have been there at some point and you think you won’t ever get over it and yes you will laugh about it 1 day!! It does make you feel better knowing we all go through it. Short stories with actual stories. All these female characters are so vivid and un-boring which isn't usually the case with short stories. Nowadays most are simply about something BIG or TRUE but can be otherwise quite on the boring side, until the very end at least when you realize there's some grand metaphor in there and the world makes sense again. Yet from the first story - The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared, I could tell that this is a rather special collection. This is a collection of thirty short stories about women. They centre around an anonymous woman at different stages in their life. This woman could be any one of us.

I really had a hard time with this book. I get where she was going but it was just so over the top that it was hard to take seriously. I loved her idea of doing short stories about everyday challenges modern day women face. Unfortunately, the transformations were so whimsical that it was hard to really look at the issue she was trying to represent which were strong enough on their own. Cecelia Ahern has written an incredibly original piece of work with her latest book, ROAR. Due for release with Harper Collins on 25th October, ROAR is described as ‘witty, tender, surprising…keenly observed tales that speak to us all, and capture the moment when we all want to roar.’ I felt as if beyond the two things I learned not much else was there. Above a few generalizations about hormones, by her own accounting, each athlete has specific needs, and the only way to fully understand what they need is to get tested and then use the results of those tests to tweak what they are doing. From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates , sometimes in fantastical ways , how women of all kinds navigate the world today —now an Apple TV+ series from the creators of GLOW starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie!Roar is a sharp, creative collection of short stories that highlight all the responsibilities, expectations, and discriminations that society places on women, as well as the self-reproach, pressure, and need for validation we as women place on ourselves. Oh this is cringey. I got through the first few and they are so heavy-handed and tell-y. I had to stop. Yikes. She's spent so many years sitting up here representing an extension of Ronald, of his achievements, that she no longer has any idea what she represents to herself.

No matter what your activity is—Olympic lifting, general fitness, endurance, or field sports—this book will empower you with the personal insight and knowledge you need to be in the healthiest, fittest, strongest shape of your life. Currently, Apple TV+ has only directly adapted 6 out of the 30 stories in Ahern's book. Whether or not Roar becomes a massive hit on the platform, this means that there's more than enough material in Ahern's book for several seasons. For now, there's no word yet on when Roar season 2 will be officially released. Each story is unique, however, it did feel a bit repetitive after a while. I would recommend reading this over a longer time period rather than in just one sitting.

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One woman is tortured by sinister bite marks that appear on her skin; another is swallowed up by the floor during a mortifying presentation; yet another resolves to return and exchange her boring husband at the store where she originally acquired him. The women at the center of this curious universe learn that their reality is shaped not only by how others perceive them, but also how they perceive the power within themselves.

A woman’s performance can be impacted by hormones (aka where she is in her cycle). Seems like a no brainer, but not something I had really read much about. In fact, I would have thought performance would be worse during the actual menstrual cycle, but she lays out the evidence for why this is not the case. women with 30 unique stories about the burdens and pain each have to endure in a world that has always been unfair to the female sex. Women have always been told what to do, feel and behave since town immemorial. Women have also been programmed to believe that compassion, guilt, remorse etc. is what they have to feel at a greater magnitude when compared to their male counterparts. Women have been an object of show, a person who should grow and age gracefully for the society to accept them and cherish them. Cook with Dr. Sims and Professional Chef Hannah Grantinthis unique cookbook that combines great taste with physiology and performance fuelling. The titles of the stories are apt and give you an idea about how the story is going to proceed and once you finish reading a chapter/story you will feel overwhelmed at the accurate description and potrayal of women. You would rather be surprised at how she manages to hit the chord of your heart with most of the tales. An updated action plan for peak performance across all phases of your menstrual cycle, as there is never a bad day to perform at your best

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There are so many worthwhile short story collections out there that make this one seem not at all researched, not at all empathetic, and not at all feminist. Instead it is repetitive and simplistic and insults the characters and the readers again and again. I'm just saying. I mean, there were female dinosaurs, too, you know, and I don't think any of them were pink." ROARR! includes over 25 dinosaur themed attractions across 85 acres, complete with rides, play areas, splash park, theatre, eateries and a secret animal garden. I'm probably supposed to rate this a 5 star to show comradeship or sisterhood due to being a woman but I won't. These short stories did not make me feel inspired as a woman, or motivated, or rallied. To be honest, I cringed heavily at most of them. And a lot of the situations that are told in the stories aren't exactly exclusive to women, which made it difficult to un-generalise my already society conformed feelings, for example, 'The Woman Who Was Swallowed Up By The Floor And Who Met Lots Of Other People Down There Too'.

Roar is a collection of thirty imaginative short stories about women. Each story centres around an anonymous woman at a different stage of her life copying with an every day issue or facing a challenge. I found some stories very relatable while others felt too bizarre. I think that every female reader will find one or two stories she will identify with, or at least recognise someone she knows who is similar to the woman in the story. The stories are a deliberately absurd exaggeration of a different situation, cleverly written and highlighting the strength and resilience of women. Each story highlights an aspect of life that illuminates a specific quality about a person, often to the extreme. The main women in each story tends to nameless, she is the key person but at the same time she could be someone you know. The odds are you will recognise some of the traits if not in yourself than in your loved ones. Cecilia Ahern was one of the feel good writers for me, whose books I read and felt light and happy. However, reading Roar was a revelation to me and something I definitely did not expect. For there is a women and her sisters who literally unravel and fall to pieces, there is a woman who has been put on a shelf by her husband for her whole life and lives on a shelf. There is one who due to a birth defect has her heart on her sleeve the whole time - you will know people that have this quality, even if they clearly don't have their heart outside their body.This book was written in 2016; a lot of what was written felt commonsense to me. Things like: don't avoid carbs (never have, never will), get enough sleep (I have walked out of gatherings announcing I HAVE TO SLEEP. You don't have to tell me twice), don't fast (duh! but also thank you for saying it out loud), and drink water, or water with extra stuff in it when you're sweating a lot (yes, though I do have to get better about fueling during a long workout). This book is aimed at Iron(wo)men and the like. I can't really see myself chugging BCAAs, measuring my protein intake or wearing those funny bike pants, but if you do, then this is the book for you. What lured me in: the promise of a discussion about adapting around the natural hormonal waves my body experiences month-to-month. That was a big part of what the Reddit chatter had been about. There is one chapter on this (pgs 16-34). I don't know that I want to take Zinc, Magnesium, Omega 3 Fatty Acids, and Aspirin every day for the 7 days leading up to my period. That's a lot of supplements to counteract a bit of a performance slump. But I'm not a professional athlete so **shrug**. All this to say: this chapter didn't do much for me save for validating the dip I see in my physical capabilities each month. By turns sly, whimsical and affecting, these 30 short stories are an inspiring examination of what it means to be a woman today. This is not a book to read on audio, which I did. I wish I owned a paper copy to use as a reference.