There is very little of it.
But I have been reading "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith, who is really JK Rowling's male mystery writing pseudonym, and I am really enjoying it. I would recommend it so far.
I have also read a bit of "Call the Midwife," which the TV show was based on, and one of the midwife's anecdotes is in relation to the distribution of the Pill, where she writes that in the late 1950s, there were eighty to a hundred deliveries on the books each month. In 1963, the number was four to five a month.
Things like that absolutely blow my mind. Talk about a game changer, actually having a reliable way to plan when and even whether to have children. We are lucky we live when we do!
I must have been living under a rock, because I've not heard about Rowling's pseudonym. I may have to look into that one!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm definitely glad that we live in the age we do. While I sometimes feel unhappy about the hormones in the pill (they make me feel wonky), I'm very happy to have the option!
I think she has a couple in the series out now. Definitely worth checking out, I stayed up too late last night reading. Didn't finish, though.
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