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I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell

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woodlandbooklover's review against another edition

1.0

The essays were interesting in the way they spliced disconnected events and time together. Going through the collection covered me in a heavy weight of sadness, watching horrible decisions being made, decisions that kept causing pain and suffering. It is good the book didn't try to have a narrative hero arc. Some learning or wisdom from the events would have given me a sense of why this collection exists, what I was supposed to learn from it. In the end, it was just a catalog of a person doing dangerous, damaging things. Certainly many of us live life that way in our 20s, but what does the writer learn and understand on the other side of all that? That was missing from this book.

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5.0

"We loved each other, but we loved ourselves more." What a short, sweet burst of choppy malaise, literal and figurative ecstasy, and making peace with the mundane. A great, quick read, full of heart. And drugs. But mostly heart.