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Glad I read it. Not sure who I'd recommend it to. I connected with the book when Nelson got personal, but the theory bits reminded me why grad school was not something I enjoyed - just not my thing.

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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5.0

This book is magnificent. I wanted to re-read each paragraph immediately after having read it. At its best, Nelson's work makes you re-think the structures of your relationships, the how and the why of love and sex and friendship. At the very least, these are beautiful considerations of Nelson's own life. I can't recommend it highly enough.

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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3.0

Parts of this book I loved. I see why parts of it was used for lecture. I thought I was going to read a memoir of sorts, and it was, but parts were intimidating as a non-lit major and seemed like an essay more than an insight into her life. I enjoyed to much of it but a lot of parts were lost on me because I didn’t recognize the names used or stories referenced, so it took a bit longer to understand where she was going.

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