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So important. So thought provoking. The best book I’ve read in a long time.
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Really recommend! Castillo provides such considered takes in such an engaging way without pulling punches but still leading with compassion (I can’t put into words what the experience of reading this was like only that I hope everyone reads this book to feel this way too). This is so good and gave me so many things to think about and words to convey those thoughts. I’m obsessed!!
ETA 01/27/23: I think I'm going to need to re-read this one already this year. So good. Required reading for all.
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Interesting and challenging essays on how our cultural perspective dramatically influences our perception of what we are reading. As a Phillipino American, Castillo brings her rather different point of view to the work of writers like Joan Didion and to the stories that we each understand primarily from our own perspectives, suggesting that we step back and challenge ourselves to set aside our cultural biases in order to see the world (and the written words) as others might.
loved this when i first read it but i’ve had some time away now to let it settle. i think the points brought up in this and how they’re articulated are interesting and necessary but i think why i enjoyed this so much was because it was mostly ideas and thoughts that i already agreed with. perhaps would be a more revolutionary book to someone who isn’t in the trenches of twitter social and literary discourses every day (and this is not a jab at the book but at me) but otherwise it’s like, at best very vindicating. i enjoyed the first half more than the second half from what i remember—and i found the joan didion section a slog not because it was written poorly but moreso because it was personally uninteresting to me as someone who is pretty uninterested by joan didion in general. i think the astrology stuff was a bit too much but that’s a personal preference i suppose.