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Intimations

Zadie Smith

4.02 AVERAGE

normal_people's review against another edition

4.0

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iankomac's review against another edition

4.0

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reading_sadie's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

katrinblomquist's review against another edition

5.0

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I thought maybe it's a bit too early for a book about this strange year and the current state of the world but I loved Zadie Smith's beautiful observations about the beginning of the pandemic in these essays. It's a short book but very dense and full of everyday poetry that I will venture back to in the future for sure.

mshiiken's review against another edition

5.0

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What a powerful set of essays - a brief peek into an experience of the early pandemic in a way that is familiar and unfamiliar. I didn't think I'd be able to read anything like this for a long time, but I'm glad I did.

greeniezona's review against another edition

4.0

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An impulse purchase from the new book. section at my local bookstore. I liked the idea of this book. Clearly this could not be some thorough analysis of the pandemic from a place of great perspective. Rather this is overhearing someone else processing a thing while we are all still in that thing. (And in August, we are all still very much in the middle of this thing, though some aspects are very different already from the days Smith is writing from.) The benefit being not only getting to listen to that processing from someone you haven't already been processing with for five months, but someone who has a career of thinking about people and how they work, how they shape narratives out of the chaos of their lives. 

Many useful moments. I wished for more. (Not a criticism.)

saucepotrach's review against another edition

4.0

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mkriete's review against another edition

2.5

reflective medium-paced

rosie22's review against another edition

5.0

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It’s freeing to have my frustrations shared in writing, to see such an articulate yet relatable summary which frames the weird serial and conflicting last few months, I will return to this little pocket size gem when ever I want to be reflective of this time, of that I am sure, and I can’t wait for more nonfiction to offer more observations on 2020.

charis_lee's review against another edition

3.75

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