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leighbeevee's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted to love this book. The pieces (they don't really read as essays) all blend together -- the titles get lost, the tone is the same in each, nothing really happens or is really revealed. There's a lot of beautiful phrases, but it's so vague and airy, all the bite has gone out of it. There's nothing to really hold onto.
katiesendlesstbr's review against another edition
4.0
I just really relate to people who long and yearn
larosier's review against another edition
5.0
longing, longing, longing; i guide the word in my mouth and try to chew it into something i can swallow without choking
zellm's review against another edition
2.0
This felt self-pitying and fatalistic and teen angst-y all in one. It was hard to get through and felt like it went around in circles and repeated itself ad nauseum. 2 stars because there was occasionally a passage that resonated with me.
torithelibrarian's review against another edition
I’m not entirely sure how to rate this book because there were certain essays that really resonated with me and others that didn’t at all
nic_t_dlr's review against another edition
4.0
I decided to read this book because it was mentioned in an article in W magazine about how Kendall Jenner is the patron saint of alt-lit. I wanted to know what alt-lit was so I bought a copy on Kindle. I didn't like the first essay. It was a confusing story about a girl's relationship with a bad boy that was interspersed with anecdotes about working on sending something like a rocket to Mars, and I was super confused. I forgot I was reading a book of essays and thought it was experimental fiction.
I liked the second essay quite a lot though. It was about a cool girl and her romantic misadventures in LA and NY which I was surprised to find myself really enjoying. I know there was a phase in my life where I would've wanted to be this woman. But it also captured that very adolescent feeling of wanting to be loved, and wanting to belong to something or someone. Maybe there are other books about that but I haven't read them, so I have no comparison.
I just know that I had an urge to post some of the sentences I read as Instagram quotes, so even if I'm not in that phase of my life anymore, I'm probably the target market. Also, this was the first book of essays I was ever able to finish! LOL.
I liked the second essay quite a lot though. It was about a cool girl and her romantic misadventures in LA and NY which I was surprised to find myself really enjoying. I know there was a phase in my life where I would've wanted to be this woman. But it also captured that very adolescent feeling of wanting to be loved, and wanting to belong to something or someone. Maybe there are other books about that but I haven't read them, so I have no comparison.
I just know that I had an urge to post some of the sentences I read as Instagram quotes, so even if I'm not in that phase of my life anymore, I'm probably the target market. Also, this was the first book of essays I was ever able to finish! LOL.