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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Abortion
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always interesting reading a memoir without any former attachment to an author’s work, but this was both ferociously direct and imaginatively poetic, dealing with Mailhot’s processing of mental illness and institutionalization, tangled relationships and abuse, and her own indigenous identity through these experiences.
I read this book because, for some reason, it was on the Canada Reads 2019 Longlist. I know a lot of people loved this book and it has gotten really great reviews, but I didn't like it. I tried, but I found the writing style took me a long to get used to. And it was difficult to follow the order of the narrative.
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Heartbreaking with some wonderfully written, and touching sentences. Although the author is really brave in sharing her stories, I found the writing disjointed and hard to follow/stick with at times
2.5 stars
I'm a little torn about this one. On the one hand, the writing is absolutely stunning and the way it's written gives you a good idea about what her mind is like; it was erratic and all over the place and didn't make a lot of sense half the time, which in a way was brilliantly done. But on the other hand, that is exactly what I didn't like about it. There was no sense of order whatsoever and it made it pretty difficult to read. I feel like I have no idea what I just read. One sentence she would be recounting a childhood memory and then the next she would be talking about being pregnant and then the one after that she would talk about when her mother died. It was hard to follow what was going on. The other reason I'm rating this so low is because it felt like she only talked about men. Every paragraph was either talking about past or current boyfriends, or she would relate it back to that. Talking about when her mother died, she would then go on to say how that affected her relationships. She would talk about being in school but then only mention the men she dated in school. Every single thing was about men, all of it, and it got both tedious and frustrating very quickly.
Overall, it wasn't a bad read but I wouldn't necessarily say that I liked it. It is a very quick read, but there isn't a whole lot to it if I'm honest.
I'm a little torn about this one. On the one hand, the writing is absolutely stunning and the way it's written gives you a good idea about what her mind is like; it was erratic and all over the place and didn't make a lot of sense half the time, which in a way was brilliantly done. But on the other hand, that is exactly what I didn't like about it. There was no sense of order whatsoever and it made it pretty difficult to read. I feel like I have no idea what I just read. One sentence she would be recounting a childhood memory and then the next she would be talking about being pregnant and then the one after that she would talk about when her mother died. It was hard to follow what was going on. The other reason I'm rating this so low is because it felt like she only talked about men. Every paragraph was either talking about past or current boyfriends, or she would relate it back to that. Talking about when her mother died, she would then go on to say how that affected her relationships. She would talk about being in school but then only mention the men she dated in school. Every single thing was about men, all of it, and it got both tedious and frustrating very quickly.
Overall, it wasn't a bad read but I wouldn't necessarily say that I liked it. It is a very quick read, but there isn't a whole lot to it if I'm honest.
emotional
reflective
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