RaveWinnipeg Free Press (CAN)... an energetic and convincing exploration of the tenacity of beliefs that police women’s emotions and their expression. It is also an exploration of the shame some women feel about what Vorona Cote calls their \'too muchness\' ... while the depth of her knowledge of Victorian culture is impressive, her handling of Victorian novels and poems, well-known and obscure, is consistently accessible to readers who don’t share her expertise. What makes Vorona Cote’s book entertaining—in addition to being informative—is the ease with she moves between quoting Lizzo and analyzing Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina ... Some of the stories she shares are harrowing, but Vorona Cote consistently finds both meaning and cause for hope in her firsthand history of emotional intensity ... A frank, informed and at times poetic defense of intensity, of her own and that of other women, Too Much will hopefully be followed by others that similarly feature her skills as both a writer and a savvy social critic.
