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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
There were a couple moments where this book had potential to be something good but unfortunately it was wasted going on and on about the author's deeply toxic romantic relationship. I came away from this book feeling like I know more about this mediocre (to put it nicely) man's life than the author and it's so frustrating.
This book felt like a nicely written diary. The prose was very nice, but I don't care that much about a stranger's relationship problems. I want to give this book one star but it feels mean to do that to a memoir.
This book felt like a nicely written diary. The prose was very nice, but I don't care that much about a stranger's relationship problems. I want to give this book one star but it feels mean to do that to a memoir.
I listened to this book because it was part of Our Shared Shelf book club that I am a part of and my library had it on digital download.
I would not have normally picked this book to read but I did enjoy her truth-telling and learning a bit more about what it is like to live with a mental illness and also be from a First Nations tribe.
I appreciated that this was a fast listen as well. I am not sure I could have stayed here for weeks, so being able to listen to the book over two days was really helpful.
I would not have normally picked this book to read but I did enjoy her truth-telling and learning a bit more about what it is like to live with a mental illness and also be from a First Nations tribe.
I appreciated that this was a fast listen as well. I am not sure I could have stayed here for weeks, so being able to listen to the book over two days was really helpful.
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
sad
slow-paced
The book felt thrown together. Memoirs or not they felt like the ravings of a mad woman. Which may have been the point. I felt little sympathy or empathy for the authors story. I just wasn’t a fan. It won awards, and to each their own… but it wasn’t my style .
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Mailhot’s writing is beautiful, and honest in a way that is transgressively intimate. It feels strange and almost wrong to be given a story I haven’t earned through my own trustworthiness.
Some writing feels like you can make it your own, but not this. It is wholly Mailhot’s. But I think I will sit with it for a long time.
Some writing feels like you can make it your own, but not this. It is wholly Mailhot’s. But I think I will sit with it for a long time.
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
This was very different from my normal read. A very different read, much more like prose, thoughtful, deep and pulling emotions from me even when the words were hard for me to put into a clear thought. Even now it is hard for me to put it into words.