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Review : Thirty awe-inspiring stories that every person needs to read to understand woman, not as a gender but woman as a HUMAN BEING. Cecelia Ahern never fails to impress with her storytelling and this is what you can expect from her newly released collection of short stories. Women have often lost their worth once they become someone's wife, somebody's mother etc. They have been taken for granted which adds to losing their identity over the course of time. To be boxed in a pigeonhole is not what women are born to be. The groundbreaking book that revolutionized exercise nutrition and performance for female athletes, now freshly updated The main character in each story is commonly referred to as 'the woman' they're not even deigned names yet the stories purpose is to lift women up. It's a nice idea, but it didn't quite hit the nail on the head for me. I wasn't nodding along going, "hey, yeah I am pretty awesome and pretty and powerful in my own right and my anxieties are irrelevant!" it was more of a slow shake of the head, disgruntled at the way women were portrayed.
Women need to see women too. If we don't see each other, if we don't see ourselves, how can we expect anybody else to?" Cecelia Ahern's writing is so poignant and yet lyrical enough to keep smiling even when she describes something tragic or sad because she does it with such grace and lightness simply making it feel a natural part of life. A very beautiful natural part of life that also teaches the reader that everything that's natural is also beautiful. These stories are to be read by all the people, for them to understand that they aren’t alone. They aren’t alone in all the situations they are unwillingly crammed into. These short stories take the typical social cues and norms that afflict any female and personifies it in such an excruciating way. Every societal compliance is twisted into a literal story line. Each story is told with a fairy tale-like quality to it; a third person point of view with a very far away perspective. I quite liked that, but it didn't make me relate even though these stories were written to put into printed language the struggles of modern day women.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.
Evans, Martina (3 November 2018). "Roar review: Cecelia Ahern's fairy tales get real". The Irish Times. The book also outlines specific strategies for dealing with your high-hormone phase (a week or so before your period) and your period, that are surprisingly simple and very effective. You also learn when your body is primed for putting on muscle and endurance gains, and when your effort is mostly spent fighting nature. Dr. Sims has taken her years of experience as an endurance athlete and scientist to create the ultimate guide to nutrition and performance for female athletes. No matter what your sport of choice is, ROAR is a book that no athlete should be without.” —Shaluinn Fullove, two-time U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier Personally, I have been struggling with low-blood pressure, fatigue, and transient issues based on my hormonal levels. Also, whenever I increase my training my appetite goes off the rails and I put on weight while feeling miserable and hungry all the time. 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.Other favorites of mine are the stories The Woman Who Walked in Her Husband's Shoes, The Woman Who Was a Featherbrain, and the The Woman Who Was Pigeonholed. But really, they're all terrific. The tales are simple. You might at first glance find the premise a little obvious, but really, taken as a whole, these fables illustrated different aspects of what it means to be a woman, how we are defined by society, ourselves, and each other, and how perception and awareness can change everything. There's a lightness and humor in many stories, even as the situations, taken to their logical (or illogical) conclusion can be nightmarish.
I had too many gripes with this to really settle into the story, so many that if I was written into the book my short story would be called, 'The Woman Who Complained Too Much', which actually sounds quite interesting to be honest. This book is perfect for people with busy lifestyles, in approx just five minutes you can have finished one of the stories. For those of us with not completely hectic full on lives, the entire book can be devoured in a long and lazy afternoon - with plenty of time for a few tea or (and!) coffee breaks. 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. After fading away to just a glimmer, the woman finally finds hope in the care of a doctor who provides a diagnosis and treatment plan: For females, low-carb, high fat and protein diets and intermittent fasting result in muscle loss, not fat loss. Boo. It can pause periods. This is bad. Eat some protein and carbs within half an hour of hardcore exercise.A deep dive into saunas, cold plunges, and other training and recovery techniques as they apply to female physiology Roar” is a collection of stories about 30 anonymous women, expressed in the most commendable mixture of wit and power. This book is one of its kind, and I feel blessed to have gotten to read the tales that were an amalgamation of fearlessness and strength. I don’t have words to define how these stories have affected the woman in me, how they have nurtured and celebrated her. We find it difficult to say ‘No’ and are always wanting to please others, leaving us with a constant feeling that we are not doing enough. Yet from the first story - The Woman Who Slowly Disappeared, I could tell that this is a rather special collection.
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