Reviews for Red Boots & Attitude: The Spirit of Texas Women Writers

The average rating for Red Boots & Attitude: The Spirit of Texas Women Writers based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-02-26 00:00:00 Artemio Garcia Showcases a plethora of Texas female writers. It is fun to get snippets of information (stories and poetry) and see what moistens your reading palate.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-03-06 00:00:00 Katia H Iglesias I'm pulling the plug: this book has been on my "currently reading" shelf for almost 3 years, and I've decided I'm never going to finish it. Nevertheless, I can honestly select "I liked it" as a rating. This collection of Hecht's newspaper sketches of everyday life in interwar Chicago is highly readable and amusing in exactly the sardonic way one would expect from the (co-) author of The Front Page or Hecht's many, many Hollywood screenplays; that's why I picked it up. The problem is that in this form it's too much of a muchness; I can imagine a Chicago newspaper reader looking forward to the next Hecht piece, but read all at once like this they become monotonous. Of course, it's hard to fault Hecht for that; this was never the way he meant them to be read. I can imagine it's an invaluable resource for Hecht scholars, if there are such folks, but for everyone else a couple of selections will go a long way.