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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
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challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
reflective
slow-paced
reflective
I will read whatever Maggie Nelson writes, she's one of my favourites! I really enjoyed this book, even though I didn't fully agree with some of her perspectives.
it did not slap for me guys :((((((((( i had no idea who some of these people in conversation with her were so i wasnt invested in like 70% of this so i dnf'd. might get the physical copy to skim thru to just the essays but kinda seemed like a meandering book of compiling existing writing
I will absolutely read anything that Maggie Nelson writes, but personally I couldn't connect much with these pieces. Maybe it's the specific topics it covers not resonating with me as I didn't have any familiarity with the majority of the media and/or artists/authors mentioned in this one, or maybe the collection aspect didn't work for me as I have previously enjoyed her works the most as they deeply considered a particular subject from many different angles. I didn't dislike this by any means, but it didn't resonate as much as I had hoped it would.
the thing about collecting everything an author has ever written about a subject as broad as "art," as she wrote it with no future awareness of its looming collection, is that you definitionally are kinda taking the good with the bad.
i'm not new york-y, in so many ways: i don't pay a lot in rent, i'm not adventurous, i stay inside a lot, and i don't know how to even begin to understand abstract art. i don't think i'm above it. quite the opposite. i would never be like "my four year old could create this painting / bash this barbie's head in / create this sculpture that is a talking refrigerator." i'm closer to the four year old — it just goes over my head.
i loved the parts of this that included maggie nelson in conversation with interesting people, including those i hadn't heard of and those i had. i loved the parts that were explorations of things i know, or of books.
but for me, there is only so much blood and sh*t and gore and violence smashed into a canvas or a polaroid or film recording i can bear.
bottom line: i always love maggie nelson but she is way cooler than me. this was made up of exclusively the cooler than me parts.
(thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)
i'm not new york-y, in so many ways: i don't pay a lot in rent, i'm not adventurous, i stay inside a lot, and i don't know how to even begin to understand abstract art. i don't think i'm above it. quite the opposite. i would never be like "my four year old could create this painting / bash this barbie's head in / create this sculpture that is a talking refrigerator." i'm closer to the four year old — it just goes over my head.
i loved the parts of this that included maggie nelson in conversation with interesting people, including those i hadn't heard of and those i had. i loved the parts that were explorations of things i know, or of books.
but for me, there is only so much blood and sh*t and gore and violence smashed into a canvas or a polaroid or film recording i can bear.
bottom line: i always love maggie nelson but she is way cooler than me. this was made up of exclusively the cooler than me parts.
(thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)