Drunken Imagery

Summer book #16: Drinking with Dead Women Writers by Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner

I am not sure what I expected when I saw this on one of the many free Kindle download pages of Facebook.  This book is short. Very short. I read it in under an hour. Basically, the two authors thought it would be a good idea to have drinks with some of the greatest female writers of all time.  As the title suggests, these women authors are all dead, which means that any conversations the authors of the book have are made up. Don't get me wrong, I like the book in theory, if not execution.  I just happen to feel it would be more believable had they sought out authors who were alive, and gone drinking with them. Really this sounded like an excuse for these women to get drunk and let their minds run wild.  I can't imagine someone actually paying to read this, and I am glad I didn't. The dead women writers included in this book are: Margaret Mead, Willa Cather, Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Erma Bombeck, the Bronte Sisters, Emily Dickinson, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Dorothy Parker, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Flannery O'Connor, Louisa May Alcott, and Ayn Rand.