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yalderly's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.25
would like to become one of Deborah Levy’s brain folds, it sounds glorious and insightful to live there permanently.
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Moderate: Grief
andreamatallin's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
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Graphic: Grief and Sexism
Moderate: Death of parent
afion's review against another edition
3.25
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Graphic: Grief and Sexism
Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness
aleckxsandra's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
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Moderate: Death of parent, Misogyny, and Grief
thewoodlandbookshelf's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
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Graphic: Sexism, Death of parent, and Grief
utuisuus's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Misogyny
booknug's review against another edition
emotional
funny
sad
slow-paced
5.0
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Moderate: Death of parent and Grief
writtenontheflyleaves's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
4.75
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy 🚲
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⛴ The concept: Writer Deborah Levy examines her life in the aftermath of her shipwrecked marriage. Her musings take in love, grief, being a whole person, relations between men and women, writing. It’s beautiful and wandering, a meditation.
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This book really crept up on me. @the.storygraph tells me I’ve been reading it for 9 days, but it doesn’t feel anywhere near that long. It feels like only a few days ago I was plodding along with it, enjoying the way that Levy writes about her life like a fragile thing she’s turning over in her hands. Then all of a sudden I was hooked, and almost in the same moment it was over. I read over half the book yesterday afternoon I think. Every page seemed to bring a new and peculiar insight, and I wrote so many quotes down in my journal upon finishing.
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🌊 Read it if you love memoir, and particularly writers’ memoirs. This is a really great one. Also if you like essays that meditate on relations between men and women, and aging.
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🚫 Avoid it if you like essays or memoirs to have a strong direction. This is much more impressionistic, it ebbs and flows and takes you inside her mind, rather than through a gallery of scenes.
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Overall, I loved it and it’s made me want to revisit Things I Don’t Want to Know! I think it’s also (hopefully 🤞🏻) put paid to my December reading slump as I’m now in a mood to be reading all the time!
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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⛴ The concept: Writer Deborah Levy examines her life in the aftermath of her shipwrecked marriage. Her musings take in love, grief, being a whole person, relations between men and women, writing. It’s beautiful and wandering, a meditation.
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This book really crept up on me. @the.storygraph tells me I’ve been reading it for 9 days, but it doesn’t feel anywhere near that long. It feels like only a few days ago I was plodding along with it, enjoying the way that Levy writes about her life like a fragile thing she’s turning over in her hands. Then all of a sudden I was hooked, and almost in the same moment it was over. I read over half the book yesterday afternoon I think. Every page seemed to bring a new and peculiar insight, and I wrote so many quotes down in my journal upon finishing.
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🌊 Read it if you love memoir, and particularly writers’ memoirs. This is a really great one. Also if you like essays that meditate on relations between men and women, and aging.
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🚫 Avoid it if you like essays or memoirs to have a strong direction. This is much more impressionistic, it ebbs and flows and takes you inside her mind, rather than through a gallery of scenes.
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Overall, I loved it and it’s made me want to revisit Things I Don’t Want to Know! I think it’s also (hopefully 🤞🏻) put paid to my December reading slump as I’m now in a mood to be reading all the time!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
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