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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
reflective
some more beautiful writing! with pictures!!
The ending was fantastic, had to slog through a lot of "oh poor sad me" to get there....
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
more than halfway through, waffling a little.
the premise is that she's working on a film and is stuck, so she starts interviewing people in the pennysaver. and these people are, to put it mildly, somewhat cray. they're not quite seedy, but they're people who are poor, who aren't digitally/electronically literate, who are or who have someone close to them suffering from a mental illness.
i want to irritated at her weird innocence, how she's weirded and grossed out by the woman with the ravaged face and fecund home, but wouldn't i probably be the same? maybe it's her utter self-knowledge. like those friends who are huge activists and relate to themselves in a way that shows that they REALLY think HARD about how they are and WHY they react the way they do and what's CULTURED and SOCIALLY ingrained. it's exhausting. but also leads to interesting revelations. i'll probably rewrite this later, if i'm not too lazy. spoiler alert: i will be.
the premise is that she's working on a film and is stuck, so she starts interviewing people in the pennysaver. and these people are, to put it mildly, somewhat cray. they're not quite seedy, but they're people who are poor, who aren't digitally/electronically literate, who are or who have someone close to them suffering from a mental illness.
i want to irritated at her weird innocence, how she's weirded and grossed out by the woman with the ravaged face and fecund home, but wouldn't i probably be the same? maybe it's her utter self-knowledge. like those friends who are huge activists and relate to themselves in a way that shows that they REALLY think HARD about how they are and WHY they react the way they do and what's CULTURED and SOCIALLY ingrained. it's exhausting. but also leads to interesting revelations. i'll probably rewrite this later, if i'm not too lazy. spoiler alert: i will be.
Hmm. This feels like a book that might have moved me more five or ten years ago. July and her search for life's meaning exhaust me, and I'm not keen on her profiting off of the lives of others by publishing these interviews.
A quirky, delightful story about the journey of creating something. I love Miranda July's voice and her honest examination of herself as she risks her comfort zone to explore the lives of PennySaver users. Just a very good book.