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Bluets by Maggie Nelson

mravendano's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective

4.5

maddyv's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional fast-paced

3.0

orchidluv's review against another edition

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3.75

Romantic and weird. all the sprinkles of history, theory, and facts were curious and neat. experimental but i wasnt put off. maybe i wouldve liked more if it were a little longer/more cohesive. 

I truly loved all the parts written about her friend.

devika1009's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

3.75

belwood303's review against another edition

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1.0

Only made it about half way through before I couldn't handle it anymore. It's almost like you spent years telling people you were going to write a book about your love of blue, but never really wrote anything until after a devastating break-up, so this is the crap you wrote instead.

sophjan's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.25

towoyg's review against another edition

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reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

Don't know how to feel about this one. I tore through this book in just a couple of sittings, while still questioning whether or not I actually liked it. I appreciated what Nelson was trying to get at but I don't think her message ever truly "got" there. Yes a subtle life lesson buried within scattered anecdotes is very poignant or whatever but it all blurred together for me by the end. I just wish some of the writing was stronger and/or dug a bit deeper.
I don't think it was terrible either, read if you just had a bad breakup maybe, you might like it then.

fujiiapple05's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

cvergobbi's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

gturner's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75