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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
reflective
slow-paced
https://boklaadan.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/hagkomster-av-min-icke-existens/
Impossible to convey how much I enjoyed this book; the prose lifts off the page and straight into the mind, balancing sparkling, romantic images with some of the most cutting social criticism I’ve read in a long time. Sonlit is angry (and why shouldn’t she be!) but she remains so measured and calculated in her excoriation of patriarchy that her talking points blend seamlessly into a deeply personal narrative about living (as a woman, as a writer and a historian, as a multiplicity). This book feels like sitting down with an intelligent, compassionate stranger, and hearing them speak until you feel yourself morphing into a new, better person.
There are authors who I read who make me excited and happy to experience literature, and I’m very happy to have found many this year alone.
There are authors who I read who make me excited and happy to experience literature, and I’m very happy to have found many this year alone.
challenging
hopeful
reflective
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
سولنیت اینجا بیشتر از تجربهٔ حذف شدن/نادیده گرفته شدن در موقعیت‌ها و قالب‌های مختلف گفته، در مورد خودش، در مورد زنان، در مورد اقلیت‌ها.
بسیار به تجربه‌های خودش اشاره می‌کنه و گذار خودش از nonexistence به existence یا به عبارتی پیدا کردن صدایی از آن خودش رو شرح میده.
جایی با باریک‌بین در مورد تجربهٔ خواننده هنگام خواندن کتاب‌ها گفته، که اینجا می‌تونید بخونید:
“There is something astonishing about reading, about that suspension of your own time and place to travel into others’. It’s a way of disappearing from where you are—not quite entering the author’s mind but engaging with it so that something arises between your mind and hers. You translate words into your own images, faces, places, light and shade and sound and emotion. A world arises in your head that you have built at the author’s behest, and when you’re present in that world you’re absent from your own. You’re a phantom in both worlds and a god of sorts in the world that is not exactly the one the author wrote but some hybrid of her imagination and yours. The words are instructions, the book a kit, the full existence of the book something immaterial, internal, an event rather than an object, and then an influence and a memory. It’s the reader who brings the book to life.”
بسیار به تجربه‌های خودش اشاره می‌کنه و گذار خودش از nonexistence به existence یا به عبارتی پیدا کردن صدایی از آن خودش رو شرح میده.
جایی با باریک‌بین در مورد تجربهٔ خواننده هنگام خواندن کتاب‌ها گفته، که اینجا می‌تونید بخونید:
“There is something astonishing about reading, about that suspension of your own time and place to travel into others’. It’s a way of disappearing from where you are—not quite entering the author’s mind but engaging with it so that something arises between your mind and hers. You translate words into your own images, faces, places, light and shade and sound and emotion. A world arises in your head that you have built at the author’s behest, and when you’re present in that world you’re absent from your own. You’re a phantom in both worlds and a god of sorts in the world that is not exactly the one the author wrote but some hybrid of her imagination and yours. The words are instructions, the book a kit, the full existence of the book something immaterial, internal, an event rather than an object, and then an influence and a memory. It’s the reader who brings the book to life.”
Thank you to the San Francisco Library for this book book and it is the best way to read this Memoir.
this is my first book by Rebecca Solnit, She is a treasure especially for us women. That I am also living in San Francisco is another connection to her and to this book which is about her life here. t is a powerful book about her life as a woman and a writer. Two lines important - a writer needs a cosmology and then another now I forget about a writer. This memoir brought up for me many not so pleasant memories of working and abuse of all kinds and basically the disrespect towards women by men and for me also by women. She had to fight against so many "natural" tendencies to give up to hide to not exist...
this tho is definitely not a book for all..
Judy g
this is my first book by Rebecca Solnit, She is a treasure especially for us women. That I am also living in San Francisco is another connection to her and to this book which is about her life here. t is a powerful book about her life as a woman and a writer. Two lines important - a writer needs a cosmology and then another now I forget about a writer. This memoir brought up for me many not so pleasant memories of working and abuse of all kinds and basically the disrespect towards women by men and for me also by women. She had to fight against so many "natural" tendencies to give up to hide to not exist...
this tho is definitely not a book for all..
Judy g