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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
slow-paced
This is my first Rebecca Solnit, but definitely there will be more!
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Leave it to Rebecca Solnit to write a memoir that’s sort of about her… but not really. It speaks to her authenticity as a writer, she really thinks and exists as poetically as she writes! I’ve only read one of her books prior to reading this, but very excited to dive into more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I will read (and love) anything Rebecca Solnit writes. With every passing day, my desire to be like her increases exponentially!
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Most of what I knew about Rebecca Solnit’s writing centered around her feminist essays. Reading this memoir I learned about her early work in art history and environmental advocacy. Over and over, Solnit asserted her independence and courage as a woman creating a life for herself. She has been a trailblazer on many fronts.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I like Solnit as a writer and as an activist. This is written in her usual style, but it’s not essays, it’s a memoir. It took me a bit longer, than with her other books, to get into it and I found her thoughts a bit contradictive in some small parts.
Overall positive on this latest one from Solnit. She’s a great writer and is just as enjoyable on the many podcast appearances she has done lately for the book promotion – for me her speaking voice tops her writing but personal preferences may vary. The descriptions about life in San Francisco before the tech boom when one could actually afford to live there are well told, and her accounts of being a woman at that time and in her milieu were especially intriguing (especially the W.S. Burroughs anecdote).