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4.19 AVERAGE
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3.5⭐
I don't know if I read or watch enough cult classic literature and film to understand this book. I loved the first essay on how reading is truly a political act and the last essay on how cultures change "classic" fairy tales but the middle essays were completely lost on me. 🤷♀️
I don't know if I read or watch enough cult classic literature and film to understand this book. I loved the first essay on how reading is truly a political act and the last essay on how cultures change "classic" fairy tales but the middle essays were completely lost on me. 🤷♀️
informative
reflective
slow-paced
This was not at all what I expected from the title. Each essay was very thoughtful and informative and in light of currents events it came to me at the right time.
so many thoughts. this is a series of longform essays on reading not as the literal act of reading (well, also that, but) on reading the world around us. on being the expected (white) reader or the unexpected, and that concept writ large. really interested and provocative looks at specific writing (everything from austen to didion and even homer). i can't recommend this enough. it put into words discussions i've had with friends about how (white) ppl interact with media.
there were times i railed against this book in my head and heart and there are still some parts (reading and empathy, for one) that i don't totally agree with on the thesis level but at no point did i not understand where the author was coming from and going. i'm white. i think it's the sign of good writing if it can make you mad and still make sense and bring you around though explicitly that is not the author's purpose. she isn't writing to white readers and writers but to/about the parts of their writing and reading that are just off screen—to them (us).
def one of those books that will stick with me.
there were times i railed against this book in my head and heart and there are still some parts (reading and empathy, for one) that i don't totally agree with on the thesis level but at no point did i not understand where the author was coming from and going. i'm white. i think it's the sign of good writing if it can make you mad and still make sense and bring you around though explicitly that is not the author's purpose. she isn't writing to white readers and writers but to/about the parts of their writing and reading that are just off screen—to them (us).
def one of those books that will stick with me.
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challenging
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medium-paced
This book have given me a lot to think about in how I approach all media in the future. There was a ton of information in here. A few of the chapters felt like they could have been shorter and still delivered just as powerful a message.
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Required reading if you claim to be “well read” 🫶🏽💕 (and especially if you have a bookish platform)
informative
medium-paced
Important and thoughtful thesis presented in the introduction. I felt like some of the essays really worked and some didn’t. I think the first and last essays were strongest.
challenging
emotional