Women Who Run with the Wolves

I think giving this a star rating is highly personal, more so than with fiction. I read this on my own because I'd always heard about it, not for a class/etc. I loved the way each chapter took a myth or two (from many different cultures) and analyzed it. Some of the analyses about being wounded & finding yourself were things I needed to hear when I was a bit younger, and at this point in my journey, they echoed things I'd already thought. So that's what I mean about the rating being personal: had I come across this book when I was, say, 20, I might have given it 5 stars. For me now, it wasn't quite as revelatory, and so I found the intricate and sometimes repetitive writing style a little slow. It's gorgeous, but also heavy (which I think it's meant to be).

Bottom line: I would recommend this to anyone – yes, not just women – with an interest in self-discovery and healing, as well as the power of myth. But my recommendation would come with the grain of salt that you can't expect all of it to be super-relevant: there's so much there that you'll have to pick and choose what speaks to you at this moment.