A review by chocolatequeen
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It by Tara O'Shea, Lynne M. Thomas

4.0

It's hard for me to rate this book. It wasn't quite what I expected--or perhaps I should say it wasn't entirely what I expected. A collection of essays, half or two-thirds of the book was what I thought I'd be reading: woman writing about what they loved about Doctor Who and why they loved it. Those entries I really loved. Seanen McGuire's was probably my favorite; her story about why she believed for the longest time that Doctor Who was real struck a chord with me.

But I didn't care for the essays that analyzed the show from an uber-feminist point of view. Sometimes I just like to enjoy entertainment for what it is, rather than exploring the deeper meaning behind it.

Still, it's a collection of essays and as such, should display a variety of content. My real complaint was the structure. Most of the analytical pieces were at the beginning of the book, with it getting progressively more fannish as it went on. If I hadn't been determined to read every single page, I would have given up fairly early on and would have missed the aforementioned piece by McGuired.

So, 5 starts to the essays I liked, 3 to the ones I didn't care for, and 3.5 to the editing of the book as a whole.