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babs_wilgus's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.0
This was beautifully and powerfully written, as I would expect from Blake Butler (read his work, friends- it’s visceral). I cannot read another book this year on surviving a loved one’s suicide though. For my self care, I just can’t.
servemethesky's review
I can’t continue with this book. I wanted to know more about Molly. Bandit is one of my all-time favorite memoirs. Blake’s book feels exploitative and icky. It’s a tricky thing to navigate. I firmly believe that “don’t speak ill of the dead” is nonsense. We don’t need to romanticize someone just because they’re gone. But at the same time, just because you had a challenging relationship with them doesn’t give you the right to dig through all of their childhood journals and emails from adulthood and craft them into a very specific narrative you want to tell. It feels manipulative and wrong. Clearly both parties did wrong and their love was very messy. I don’t want any part in it as a reader. Plus, Blake’s prose is verbose and insufferable to read.
Glad I got this one from the library.
Glad I got this one from the library.
koriw's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.25
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide
pepperpentangle's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
2.75