hollasan's review
2.0
Self-centred.
Contrived.
Boring.
Exactly what stream of consciousness should NOT be.
Not every feeling needs to be a metaphor, Durga.
For example -
What the hell?!?!
Contrived.
Boring.
Exactly what stream of consciousness should NOT be.
Not every feeling needs to be a metaphor, Durga.
For example -
"Watching this woman mechanically tie her hair was softly enormous"
"There's an understanding that my grandfather would have liked me. Loved me, sure. But liking is altogether different. It's gentle. Almost chewy. Liking someone is taffy."
"[On growing up with sisters] Not learning how to join. You were already part of something. You could be a crowd. You could troop places. You could be recruited the way a pop song recruits you."
What the hell?!?!
vivacissimx's review
3.0
In a positive, or at least neutral, way: this is the most self-obsessed book I've ever read. The author seems locked in a permanent stag of childhood, bewildered and a little afraid of being & becoming in a world they're still becoming, realizing several times over that her parents are human and that she exists in this tactile world. Gorgeous prose and metaphor, of course. There are no grand conclusions.
I don't know for certain but I strongly suspect the author is a Taurus.
I don't know for certain but I strongly suspect the author is a Taurus.
zoey69's review against another edition
2.0
I like this author’s taste in books more than her books lol
softykitsune's review
3.0
There were a LOT of parts that I resonated with buuuut I don't feel it sticking with me long term unfortunately.
3 out of 5.
3 out of 5.
kbratten's review
3.0
So hard to review. This book is so incredibly rambly and very self-indulgent. But that's kind of the point of the title. Durha Chew-Bose has little snippets of truly profound wisdom all throughout the book, I wish I had read it with a pen in hand to mark thoughts and passages that moved me or made me think. I'm never going to be able to find them again. Could be worth a second read, but the lack of cohesiveness throughout the book makes me not want to.