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kelseyinreallife's review
While this was not my favorite, it is still an extremely inspirational book. Instead of being with the art books in the book store it is in the Self Help section, and I think its for good reason.
saidtheraina's review
5.0
This is the book which inspired me to go to Italy, and specifically the Cinque Terre, for my great post-college adventure. It influenced me in all kinds of ways.
darbyart's review
5.0
I haven't read the first book and so maybe I am biased because of it. I have seen lot of bad reviews of this one. But I enjoyed it. It came along at time I was needing it. Her art inspired me. Her thoughts were thoughts I have had as an artist. It was what I needed it to be and that is all.
witchyfingers's review
2.0
An interesting combination of art/semi-self-help/journal. I liked her first one better.
zoeap's review
5.0
“ ‘All ways’ striving never soaking.” I need to “soak” more in life in the way that I did as I devoured this book in a little under two hours. I couldn’t put it down, I love this one even more than the first and I can’t wait to read messy thrilling life next!
“I feel like I take on life like a project most of the time. I work hard to ‘finish myself up’ so others get me all ‘complete and clean’. But I forget to leave room for myself to feel tangled and unmade… These are the bits I want to know about in others.”
“I feel like I take on life like a project most of the time. I work hard to ‘finish myself up’ so others get me all ‘complete and clean’. But I forget to leave room for myself to feel tangled and unmade… These are the bits I want to know about in others.”
another_emily's review
5.0
I bought Spilling Open when it came out because I was a big SARK fan at the time and she wrote about the wonderful Sabrina Ward Harrison.
I finally read all of the text in Brave on The Rocks: If You Don't Go, You Don't See this weekend. My inscription on the inner cover is "Emily / Feb 27, 2004 / B&N, Long Branch / She put out another book! I'm glad she was so successful! / I wish my artwork looked like this"
It surprised me that so much of what she wrote about, and drew about, is her loneliness, her fears she can't sustain the recent successes, and her escape to Italy. "I wish someone from my Normal Life was Here!! right now telling jokes. Meg would be so nice! Dad would be reminding me to Be Brave on the rocks. I guess this is the whole point, It's weird to think that no one I know - knows exactly where I am right now. Far. Gone."
Her writing is not linear, and the eye keeps moving. But that's the point. She's expressing what she's feeling however it comes out. It's searing and beautiful. She's wonderfully sad and lonely in parts, in a way that invites the reader to respond viscerally. I've been where you are, is what I thought. Thank you for helping me delve deeper into it.
If you don't like art books, or reading something that's not presented in straight lines, this isn't for you. Those are the low stars in the reviews. It is hard in the beginning, her loops and angles, but it doesn't take long to be engulfed.
I finally read all of the text in Brave on The Rocks: If You Don't Go, You Don't See this weekend. My inscription on the inner cover is "Emily / Feb 27, 2004 / B&N, Long Branch / She put out another book! I'm glad she was so successful! / I wish my artwork looked like this"
It surprised me that so much of what she wrote about, and drew about, is her loneliness, her fears she can't sustain the recent successes, and her escape to Italy. "I wish someone from my Normal Life was Here!! right now telling jokes. Meg would be so nice! Dad would be reminding me to Be Brave on the rocks. I guess this is the whole point, It's weird to think that no one I know - knows exactly where I am right now. Far. Gone."
Her writing is not linear, and the eye keeps moving. But that's the point. She's expressing what she's feeling however it comes out. It's searing and beautiful. She's wonderfully sad and lonely in parts, in a way that invites the reader to respond viscerally. I've been where you are, is what I thought. Thank you for helping me delve deeper into it.
If you don't like art books, or reading something that's not presented in straight lines, this isn't for you. Those are the low stars in the reviews. It is hard in the beginning, her loops and angles, but it doesn't take long to be engulfed.
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