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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
god i love a book that makes me really feel the little cogs in my brain turn!!
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Last 3 chapters didnt really fit with the rest of the topics
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<i><blockquote>It is only via accumulation - of friends, of fears, of phobias, and of the myriad paraphernalia that accompany any life - that we graduate from schema to soul.</blockquote></i> She had me in the first half, ngl. Breezed through the first couple of essays (on maximalism, on womanhood, violence, longing and love) but ultimately lost me around the 2/3rd (chapter 9 to be exact). Some nice ideas that at times get lost in quotations from secondary literature. Personal fav was the essay on Marie Kondo and on Cronenberg.
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A challenging, sharp-tongued essay collection that requires the reader's full attention and rewards it with thought-provoking conversations, rigorous writing, and a full-throated rejection of modern minimalism and restraint. As a fan of sprawling, ambitious novels, I particularly enjoyed the essays focused on literary criticism, especially her analysis of Sally Rooney. The final essay on romance as conversation is also wonderful. There's an essay or two where I learned a bit more about her personal life than I perhaps wanted to but overall this was the kind of reading experience that stretched my brain in the best way.