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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
If you love New York City, really love New York City, then you'll probably love this book, too.
funny
reflective
A great memoir that most introverts/people-watchers will appreciate
Gornick humanizes time and equalizes every artist, passersby, and friend so that we are all consumed with what if’s but steadied by action, reality, and dialogue. She highlights the mundane and calms the ridiculous and the arrogant. It was a collection of thoughts and history that was perfect in length. I won’t find another like it.
A series of mostly unremarkable moments. An occasional flash of brilliant prose. Seemingly inspired by an over-exaggerated sense of one's own suffering, mostly self-inflicted.
3.5 Ik vind dit een lastige om te beoordelen. Dit lezen was een beetje verontrustend, omdat de stukken die Gornick over haar eigen psyche omschrijft zo nauw aansluiten op hoe ik mijzelf ervaar. Ze heeft een extreem scherp oog voor menselijke beweegredenen en kan daar zowel confronterend als humoristisch over schrijven. Toch merkte ik dat het boek geen hele grote aantrekkingskracht op me had. Ik stelde het lezen soms uit, vooral omdat ik de observaties over de stad dan weer niet zo vermakelijk vond.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
I love reading Vivian Gornick. And/but - maybe it's because her memoir of her childhood was so indelible, but to me she seems like such a specific point in time in nyc that it was shocking to be to come across the 9/11 reference in this book, and even more so for me to see that she is currently alive. I don't consider it to be a bad thing that to me she is a very 20th century writer. Maybe her framework continues to present itself in that way in my reading, even when she is describing things that happened this century. I was then comparing this book to [b:The Vulnerables|125930473|The Vulnerables|Sigrid Nunez|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1680838245l/125930473._SY75_.jpg|135510724] but this book is still pre-pandemic. I guess Gornick and Nunez are generationally separate, so maybe this just on me for not reading as many active writers of this age, especially who are women!
Leer a Gornick se siente como si estuviésemos sentadas en el sofacito de su salón y estuviera contándome lo que le ha pasado ese día paseando por Nueva York, o lo que vio hace cincuenta años, o lo que recuerda de tal o cual libro u obra de teatro.
Siempre me encanta ver cómo viste a la ciudad como si fuera un personaje, con voz e intenciones propias. Me brinda otra forma de ver la soledad, pero no la compro para mí.
Siempre me encanta ver cómo viste a la ciudad como si fuera un personaje, con voz e intenciones propias. Me brinda otra forma de ver la soledad, pero no la compro para mí.