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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
challenging
slow-paced
DNF @ 75%
This book didn’t deliver on any of its promises and instead felt like a collection of options the author has on various books, shows, and films, which I, quite frankly, do not care about. I don’t care about Wes Anderson on a good day so of course I’m not going to care about someone I’ve never heard about talking about Wes Anderson.
This book didn’t deliver on any of its promises and instead felt like a collection of options the author has on various books, shows, and films, which I, quite frankly, do not care about. I don’t care about Wes Anderson on a good day so of course I’m not going to care about someone I’ve never heard about talking about Wes Anderson.
emotional
informative
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
These essays are incredibly thought-provoking and occassionally discomforting. Castillo invites us to rethink our critical thinking of the books, art and history we are surrounded by. Her voice and tone is intellectual but also funny. In response to the American Dirt saga she writes, ‘There is only so much space I can make for this controversy, both in these pages and in my life; controversies like this go beyond racial microaggressions—they’ve become predictable and occasionally lucrative trauma engines, and continually asking writers of color to produce a comment from the hot-take-jukebox on the latest fuckup perpetrated by a dementedly racist and tone-deaf publishing industry is asking those writers to wipe a shit they did not take.’ I still think about her debut novel America is Not The Heart all the time.
slow-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
This book changed something in me. I’ve meant to read it for at least a year now, and yet when I finally started it, it was exactly WHEN I needed it.
I missed these books. I missed noting important quotes, and not tracking my daily reading. I missed THINKING, and absorbing, and LEARNING, and EXPANDING. I missed what college life gave to the relationship between me and reading. With this awareness of the way I’ve been navigating my reading life, I realized I needed to pivot and change because I haven’t been getting what I need out of it.
I need to read more because I’m curious, and less because I’m collecting data and stats on my reading.
The quotes I’ve noted from this book are indispensible. I will read another collection of her essays if she comes out with one in the future.
Thank you Elaine.
I missed these books. I missed noting important quotes, and not tracking my daily reading. I missed THINKING, and absorbing, and LEARNING, and EXPANDING. I missed what college life gave to the relationship between me and reading. With this awareness of the way I’ve been navigating my reading life, I realized I needed to pivot and change because I haven’t been getting what I need out of it.
I need to read more because I’m curious, and less because I’m collecting data and stats on my reading.
The quotes I’ve noted from this book are indispensible. I will read another collection of her essays if she comes out with one in the future.
Thank you Elaine.
challenging
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
challenging
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced