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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
I need to dwell on this one for a while. It is so real, it feels like memory. Painful and raw. But also an inkling of cathartic.
Oof, okay this is a hard one to review, but I'll give it a try. This is very well written and it is perhaps the most personal and vulnerable memoir I read in a long time. But this isn't the type of book you enjoy reading. Mailhot tells her story in a series of essays, and I found myself struggling to connect with her in the first few essays, but then her writing caught me up, so completely, and I found myself transported to some really dark, painful places. Mailhot writes a lot about pain, trauma, loss, mental illness, and abuse. Depending on your threshold for these subjects, this might be too much. It was probably too much for me. I read this in three sittings and each time I stopped I read a completely different book before returning to Heart Berries. Her language is so lyrical and the narrative is so non-linear, I think it would benefit from another, closer read. I just...don't think I can read it again. There's a lot of duality here. Mailhot's is frank but poetic, beautiful but painful to read. She pulls back from this a little at the end and you see a light in the darkness and how far she has come, there's a lot of strength there. I just...I don't know, I wish I could speak about this better.
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I finished this in one afternoon. It was written in a mysteriously amazing prose. This author has lived through painful, unbelievable moments.
Very difficult to understand tbh, it really wasn't for me. The writing style is... random? And most of it centers around the author's toxic relationship with this guy. This is my subjective opinion but it wasn't for me.
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