Reviews - Blind Spot | The StoryGraph

Not something to read in one sitting -- even though you could. It's best to take is small bites. Sometimes, the language is beautiful. Sometimes the connections he makes are thought provoking. But always, Teju Cole is never not interesting.

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5.0

“To look is to see only a fraction of what one is looking at. Even in the most vigilant eye, there is a blind spot. What is missing?”

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3.0

I wanted to give this more stars, but in the end I didn't feel it got to me the way I wanted it to. I was engaged. It also made start to take different pictures with my Instax and on Instagram. But it didn't leave me with that enthusiasm that I feel with 4 or 5 star books, that feeling of completeness. Maybe it's because of the vagueness and difficulty of some of the essays - that's obviously the way the author wanted this book to be, but it was not for me, right now. But I think I will revisit this, and maybe then I'll feel different. Recommended if you want to read something different, poetic, profound and yet strangely light.