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noide127's review
3.0
I love the tone and humour Diski has, in general. I identify with it and I think it encouraged me to keep writing in a similar way for my creative writing class. I very much enjoyed reading about her life, and the way she nonchalantly addresses "complicated" topics. However, she lost me a bit when she started the section about her treatment, then Uni happened, and I ended up putting the book down for a couple of months.
I want to re-read this one sometime in the future with a bit more calm and concentration.
I want to re-read this one sometime in the future with a bit more calm and concentration.
sophronisba's review against another edition
4.0
Beautifully written memoir which covers Diski's tumultuous adolescence (spent partly as the unofficial foster daughter of Doris Lessing) and her cancer treatment fifty years later. Perhaps strangely, I found myself more interested in her account of enduring radiation and chemo and coming to grips with the end of her life than in her more eventful teenage years. (However, if you are interested in Doris Lessing Diski's remembrances of her will hold your attention.) Definitely worth the read.
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