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I really enjoyed this book because it has a lot of stuff in there that I like to read. I love reading about other people's traveling escapades while sitting comfortably in my house, on my couch, with my dogs. I like when I can feel a kinship with anyone who has also not chosen the predictable and expected life and feels like an outcast among married friends with children living in suburbia. Crispin seems very interesting, neurotic, and I like how much she swears. I love books, I love reading and have been a fan of Bookslut and Spolia for a longtime. Crispin has introduced me to books that aren't on every other bookish website and artists I didn't know or knew little about and she does the same with The Dead Ladies Project. It is the very opposite of Eat, Pray, Love.
This is part memoir, part travel with history, and gossip about the lives and loves of dead artists. I am familiar with William James and Somerset Maugham (not all the dead ladies are ladies) but I didn't know anything about their private lives and how that played into their work. I had never heard of Claude Cahun, a lesbian artist living on Jersey Island during the Nazi occupation of WWII with her lover/step-sister and how they bravely peppered the German soldiers with propaganda pamphlets. She sounds fascinating and now I am sad that there is no biography written of her.
I liked that Crispin went to Berlin, St. Petersburg, Galway, and Sarajevo and not Rome, Paris, and the Tuscan countryside. She didn't talk about Picasso or Sylvia Plath but Rebecca West and Margaret Anderson and Maude Gonne. She didn't talk of James Joyce but of his wife, Nora Barnacle.
I read this slowly, not wanting it to end but since Crispin also leaves a nice reading list at the end, I now have several books I want to read just from reading this book. That is another thing to like about The Dead Ladies Project, it left me wanting to know more.


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The Dead Ladies Project Exiles Expats and ExCountries Jessa Crispin Books Reviews

It's been a long time since I've read a book where I dreaded the ending, the goodbye. All along, I felt as if I was a fellow sojourner with the author and felt I was spending time with a kindred spirit, one that I learned from and grew with in reflection. This book gives you two gifts the journey of the immediate narrative and the subsequent "side trips" of the recommended texts and works of art referred to in the story. This is a book to savor Set time aside to sip it like a fine wine!
What a wonderful collection of vignettes on very interesting and mostly inspiring women many of whom have remained in the shadows. Thank you Jessa Crispin for telling your story so wonderfully interwoven with these places and people. I'm pretty sure we should have been best friends.
I heard about this book 'on stuff mom never told you about '- a podcast - and I knew I needed to read it and I'm glad that I did. I got to see new sides of people and places that I don't give much thought and to get a view of solo travel that I haven't seen before. I found it harsh sometimes but in the way that real things are always a lil jarring if that makes sense. I love the love for books and artists here, I love the bits of history and her life and the people she met. I really liked this book and I hope that people check it out.
Along with Rebecca Traister's All The Single Ladies, I think this book needs to be required reading for young women and writers. Ms. Crispin weaves her own tale into the retelling of these great women and I couldn't put the book down. A wonderful introduction to some authors I'd never heard of or known much about, and a great excuse to read more of Ms. Crispin's prose!
lots of good things including a joke about cancers (the astrological sign) and how they approach situations (please read the book to find out the punchline), a scary story about a fairy, atheists are the new materialists and why they are boring, an interesting island, the word "lover," and a lot more. I'm buying one for my sister too, peace
Read this book while abroad myself and can not recommend it enough. I first heard about Crispin on the podcast "Stuff Mom Never Told You," and am glad to say her book was equally, if not more, entertaining than her interview. I learned a lot about cities past and present, and historical figures famous and obscure, and that I am not alone in trying to just figure everything out, damn it.

For anyone who enjoys well-told tales written by strong women, travel autobiographies, or urban histories, this is the perfect book.
Jessa Crispin ran the bookslut literary blog for several years before she abandoned Chicago and relocated in Berlin. This book relates her travels around Europe to places where several authors or authors' muses lived (William Blake, James Joyce's wife, Maud Gonne, etc.). Jessa evaluates these locations impartially and insight-fully. She's bright and honest. I enjoyed traveling vicariously with her.
I really enjoyed this book because it has a lot of stuff in there that I like to read. I love reading about other people's traveling escapades while sitting comfortably in my house, on my couch, with my dogs. I like when I can feel a kinship with anyone who has also not chosen the predictable and expected life and feels like an outcast among married friends with children living in suburbia. Crispin seems very interesting, neurotic, and I like how much she swears. I love books, I love reading and have been a fan of Bookslut and Spolia for a longtime. Crispin has introduced me to books that aren't on every other bookish website and artists I didn't know or knew little about and she does the same with The Dead Ladies Project. It is the very opposite of Eat, Pray, Love.
This is part memoir, part travel with history, and gossip about the lives and loves of dead artists. I am familiar with William James and Somerset Maugham (not all the dead ladies are ladies) but I didn't know anything about their private lives and how that played into their work. I had never heard of Claude Cahun, a lesbian artist living on Jersey Island during the Nazi occupation of WWII with her lover/step-sister and how they bravely peppered the German soldiers with propaganda pamphlets. She sounds fascinating and now I am sad that there is no biography written of her.
I liked that Crispin went to Berlin, St. Petersburg, Galway, and Sarajevo and not Rome, Paris, and the Tuscan countryside. She didn't talk about Picasso or Sylvia Plath but Rebecca West and Margaret Anderson and Maude Gonne. She didn't talk of James Joyce but of his wife, Nora Barnacle.
I read this slowly, not wanting it to end but since Crispin also leaves a nice reading list at the end, I now have several books I want to read just from reading this book. That is another thing to like about The Dead Ladies Project, it left me wanting to know more.