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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
It's not perfect, but it came to me at the perfect time
Not something I would have ever picked up on my own. I’m glad I did.
It’s interesting that this is marketed as a memoir - really it is more essays, with some memoirish aspects, which isn’t unusual for Solnit. I felt like it was going to be something slightly different, but it’s still fantastic.
Got my hands on an ARC and ya'll will not be disappointed when this one comes out. I love a memoir and, true to her soul, Rebecca Solnit's is tender, poignantly rendered, and fascinating. More than being solely about herself, this memoir is about all manner of people and experiences that helped shaped her journey to existing and to honing her now critically-acclaimed and uniquely beloved voice. I read it all in one big chunk because I just wanted to keep feeding her words to my brain!! Her wisdom and insight are (unfortunately, in some cases) timeless, but as always she leaves you with hope, a sense of curiosity and wonder about the parts of the world that lie exposed. Hope in the dark (to quote Rebecca herself) and narratives of progress are what we need more than ever moving in to 2020! So pleased to have read this.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
“Men’s bodies are weapons and women’s bodies are targets and queer bodies are hated for blurring the distinction or rejecting the metaphors.”
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Smart reflections on art, life, and activism
Readers like me who, over Rebecca Solnit’s thirty years of writing, have fallen in love with her seismic, world-shifting essays will not be disappointed in this memoir, her first longform writing in seven years. True to her form, this is a memoir not necessarily of the events of Solnit’s coming of age, but rather the greater influences in her development as a feminist, an activist, and a writer in 1980s San Francisco. In these pages, Solnit describes the formation of her own powerful voice while interrogating the culture that routinely silences women through violence and disregard. By sharing these formative years, Solnit is sure to inspire and vindicate generations of women and offer much-needed encouragement to people of all genders to invest in voices long suppressed.