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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I am being joyful in this very instant because I refuse to be defeated: so I love. As an answer. Impersonal love, it love, is joy: even the love that doesn’t work out, even the love that ends. And my own death and that of those we love must be joyful, I don’t yet know how, but they must be. That is living: the joy of the it. And to settle for that not as one defeated but in an allegro con brio.
As a matter of fact I don’t want to die. I rebel against “God.” Let’s not die as a dare?
I’m not going to die, you hear, God? I don’t have the courage, you hear? Don’t kill me, you hear? Because it’s a disgrace to be born in order to die without knowing when or where. I’m going to stay very happy, you hear? As a reply, as an insult. I guarantee one thing: we are not guilty.
An impassioned and unorthodox exploration of what it means to live and love in the present. It’s wonderful to be carried along in the stream of poetic thought, certainly something I’d dip into again readily.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I feel like I would be so enamored with this book if I hadn’t read the whole thing at a busy and incredibly warm airport as my flight got continuously delayed. Read this at night, with jazz playing, and candles burning.
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Felt like i was reading a psych patients slam poetry
Read it last night and liked it.
It reads like an inner monologue, journal entries....the narration is loquacious, delicious and delirious even. You don't know what you'll read in the next paragraph and it could be anything from tulips, turtles, mirrors to just the unbearable despair that merely existing entails. It is a conversation that is erratic, frantic, passionate and despondent all at once.
If you don't mind reading something that is mostly vibes and brilliant prose, go for it!!
(also please read the introduction before reading the book if you're one of those people who don't read them)
It reads like an inner monologue, journal entries....the narration is loquacious, delicious and delirious even. You don't know what you'll read in the next paragraph and it could be anything from tulips, turtles, mirrors to just the unbearable despair that merely existing entails. It is a conversation that is erratic, frantic, passionate and despondent all at once.
If you don't mind reading something that is mostly vibes and brilliant prose, go for it!!
(also please read the introduction before reading the book if you're one of those people who don't read them)
loved. loved it; stream of consciousness not like a story but like the attempt to catch the now, the perpetual instants. her word use is so gorgeous i fell in love.
only thing i disliked was the rasict part where she started implying that black ppl somehow can't feel pain and that she's an african and i don't remember what else but i didn't like it
only thing i disliked was the rasict part where she started implying that black ppl somehow can't feel pain and that she's an african and i don't remember what else but i didn't like it
Content Warnings
Minor: Racism
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated