Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit

4.22 AVERAGE

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chanadlerbong's review against another edition

5.0
emotional inspiring fast-paced
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donb's review against another edition

4.0
4.5
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okayso's review against another edition

4.0
Underlined nearly every sentence, what a work this is.
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emosheeran's review against another edition

2.0
slow-paced
 The first half of this book I enjoyed quite a bit; I had numerous passages highlighted and a lot of Rebecca’s feelings were very relatable, but the last half completely lost my interest and took me so long to get through. 

I’m not really sure what Rebecca was going for while writing this because it targets several different things. I expected to learn quite a bit about her—I had no knowledge of her existence before reading this—but I can safely say I still do not know much about her coming out of it. 
A lot about her life gets skimmed; very little drew me in and made me want to know about her experiences. I feel like trying to connect with your readers emotionally is rather important with these subjects, but that was missing from here, or at least the last half. 
At times it did feel kinda white feminist as well.
 
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fireofunknownorigin's review against another edition

5.0
emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced
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theprinceofdenmark's review against another edition

dnf her critical writing is more interesting than autobio

elizabeth_anne_elizabeth's review against another edition

5.0
emotional informative reflective
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metamanchester's review against another edition

3.0
hopeful reflective medium-paced
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heathero621's review against another edition

2.5
emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced
I thought that this book was really boring and it didn't capture my attention and I had a hard time wanting to read it.  I think that if I knew more about Rebecca Solnit (I had no idea who she was), I would have appreciated the book more.  There were some parts that were interesting and were relevant to current days (mostly how women have to navigate this world), but then there were parts (art stuff and the times in the 80s) that I just couldn't relate to.

gcbf's review against another edition

4.0
hopeful reflective slow-paced