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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
Great writing. And I don't think I ever want to meet this version of the author.
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
A lot of really intense entitlement, with a really gripping story buried in the middle.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
I am not gonna rate a book about someone's occuring and non-fictious life because even though I'd be rating the book it would feel like I am rating the experience. Or maybe that's just the feeling with this book because it is so deeply personal.
That doesn't mean that I don't have an opinion about my own reading experience. I do.
It was an easy read: as in, I read it in one sitting. The language flowed.
Personally, I am fundamentally enriched by any and all stories by women that they themselves freely choose to share. No matter the aspect of their lives they focus on or the level of similarity to my own. It doesn't get more empowering than a real-life woman saying 'Here I am.'.
The mere fact that this is not a female character made up (apart from the own making up we all do about ourselves) for a particular reason by anyone else is a liberating act.
That doesn't mean that I don't have an opinion about my own reading experience. I do.
It was an easy read: as in, I read it in one sitting. The language flowed.
Personally, I am fundamentally enriched by any and all stories by women that they themselves freely choose to share. No matter the aspect of their lives they focus on or the level of similarity to my own. It doesn't get more empowering than a real-life woman saying 'Here I am.'.
The mere fact that this is not a female character made up (apart from the own making up we all do about ourselves) for a particular reason by anyone else is a liberating act.
challenging
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage
I have a prickly feeling about the implicit politics of this book, but a soft spot for memoirs about beautiful, ambitious people and their misspent twenties and thirties in New York City. Gobbled this book up in a day, feels like a dangerous snack.
Tears were streaming down my face while I sat on my couch one night, reading this book. This is what I wanted Eat Pray Love, etc to be.