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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I kind of felt like there was a project at work in this book that I didn't fully understand, but I was into it!
funny
reflective
medium-paced
The author reminded me of a very brittle woman I used to be friends with, a person who was entirely self-absorbed and important, and who used concepts of anxiety to legitimize her poor treatment of others. Julavits's writing is lovely, but the person she writes about--herself--seems so very un-lovely that it was difficult to appreciate anything about the book.
Brilliant, neurotic, funny. I didn't want to rush through this meditation on time and age and moments. I especially enjoyed how each "day" is a mini essay, each one with depth and a great amount of thoughtfulness and intelligence.
Like reading the "diary" of your smartest, most honest, revealing friend who also happens to love reality TV, gossip and the Internet. If she kept writing it I'd keep reading it.
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I love the title of this book. Folded Clock. It's a diary/journal written in different spans of time, and then entries are "folded" into the book, not in time sequence but in some form of thematic resonance. (I wonder what went into the sequencing). Her voice is strong and honest, and the stories she tells of her life are interesting narrative hat nods to a writer/teacher living in New York, Maine and sometimes, abroad.
This seems more a random set of rambling meditations than an actual book. Not my cup of tea.
She’s a great, beautiful writer and there’s a few funny, unique stories in here and honest moments but there’s no real point of this being a diary. There’s no cohesive timeline or insight into the minutia of the day. Most entries don’t even necessarily have to do with what she did on that particular day. It’s as if she wanted to tell a bunch of anecdotes and threw them into a diary format to sell it.
funny
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced