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mika_ryan's review
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Eating disorder
lybarron's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
The best memoir I've ever listened to.
This is the second book of hers that I've read. I enjoy her prose and listening to her narrate the novel was a huge plus. It was also interesting to hear her talk about her past books and how her life has changed since then. Leslie Jamison also has a beautiful way of writing about complicated relationships with yourself and others, creativity, and trauma in a way that feels candid and insightful.
The next time I see it on the shelf I will probably pick up a couple of copies to give to loved ones too.
This is the second book of hers that I've read. I enjoy her prose and listening to her narrate the novel was a huge plus. It was also interesting to hear her talk about her past books and how her life has changed since then. Leslie Jamison also has a beautiful way of writing about complicated relationships with yourself and others, creativity, and trauma in a way that feels candid and insightful.
The next time I see it on the shelf I will probably pick up a couple of copies to give to loved ones too.
Content Warnings
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
drippydots's review
emotional
tense
medium-paced
2.75
This was the first memoir I read in a while and I inhaled it within a few days. It felt kind of delicious to read about somebody else's messy life. I think this is a book that I would have found revelatory in my 20s because there are so many descriptions and sentences that vibrate on the page. There is a part of myself that sees myself in her restlessness, her self absorption, her over-analyzing her relationships, her bumping up against an idealized version of adulthood and that part of myself makes me want to cringe. I think there is a lot here for a lot of people to enjoy but as a work of literature I just needed to feel like there was a purpose, a point to laying this all so bare.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder
raekit's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic
readalongwithyasmin's review
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Raw and emotional memoir on motherhood and life post divorce.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Eating disorder, and Drug use
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