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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Not quite what I expected, but maybe better. Just a really interesting examination of this writer's circumstance of unfulfilled desires and how they transform into something she can't really define.
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Not quite what I hoped it would be, but moving nonetheless
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
An interesting premise (exploring an unrequited crush through Plato’s forms of love) executed frustratingly. This book feels like it was written for an audience of one, with many stylistic flourishes that don’t have an obvious function. Much of the material perhaps should have been kept private between the author and the object of her affections.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
I genuinely wonder if the author's ex roommate knows about this book (I hope they do). This is essentially a mourning of a rejection and of possible futures that didn't happen, but I will note that if I read this from someone I used to room with but moved out because I didn't want to be in a romantic relationship with them, that I might be a bit concerned about that person. Still a hell of a work, both artistically and prose wise.
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
As Abraham explore her love for her housemate through the prisms of eight types of love, there is much to reflect upon as a reader from preconceptions of what society thinks about love and how to adjust one’s own ideas. I think Abraham walks a certain line with the friend she is enamored with, but her pure curiosity about the subject of love powers the book through her words and images. I was captivated, and spent time while reading sharing passages with my own friends whom I love very much.
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Elseship is an account of a complicated relationship for which there is no name. Tree Abraham falls in love with her housemate, who does not feel the same, and after this love is professed, the two remain housemates and maintain an intense friendship that is more than friendship. In this work of creative, lyric nonfiction, Abraham’s incredibly intimate musings and confessions are interspersed with photos and illustrations concerning the first year of this relationship, all loosely organized around the eight Greek words for love. I found it fascinating and compulsively readable.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship