Weekly “what are you reading” Thread #32

I'm reading Work Won't Love You Back, a book recommended to me by my supervisor. She's kinda kooky, but I committed to reading about it. For context, my work is a very healthy space to work in, I feel valued as an employee and invested in. So for me I'm just taking it in.

The book itself is a Marxist critique of capitalism in the contexts of motherhood and free will. I don't feel like this is a good book because this book concentrates on the author's own choices, and then tries to hold up a mirror to the free market. For example, the author talks about struggling to be an artist while raising a daughter, acknowledges that she needs more support and a different career, but then won't stop being an artist or get support from her deadbeat dad. Wild stuff to read a woman's thought process on this stuff, doing the opposite of what she knows is right, and demanding a fundamental shift in economics because she won't get her head out of her butt.

I hope my supervisor forgets I bought the book.