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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
3.5 ⭐️
it’s good, beautiful quotes, honesty about the author’s experiences. quite lovely.
‘You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.’ - james baldwin
it’s good, beautiful quotes, honesty about the author’s experiences. quite lovely.
‘You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.’ - james baldwin
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Scanlon writes with such clear eyes and so incisively. I have never felt that my own struggles with mental health have been so perfectly reflected in a memoir. The ties to other writers and books are so interesting and eye opening
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
I confess, I stopped reading at page 270. It's a very unusual memoir in that it's not trying to tell any real story. This book is made up of snippets of ideas, memories, and observations all detailed in flowery prose. It's more of a musing collection of essays than a memoir.
I enjoyed that for the first 100 pages. It felt very literary and intellectual but then it just kept going without any real narrative arc. I think this would have been lovely if it was shorter or if the essays were arranged to tell a story. I had to stop reading it because I was beginning to hate it and I wanted to like this very badly. If I had continued to the end, it probably would get a lower rating.
I enjoyed that for the first 100 pages. It felt very literary and intellectual but then it just kept going without any real narrative arc. I think this would have been lovely if it was shorter or if the essays were arranged to tell a story. I had to stop reading it because I was beginning to hate it and I wanted to like this very badly. If I had continued to the end, it probably would get a lower rating.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
“what is madness if not the horror of being misunderstood, of being unable to make a self comprehensible to another?”
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
I don’t have the words to describe this book. I related to a lot of it and more than that it was just interesting to read the author’s story.
I think I’m going to come back this one again in the future.
I think I’m going to come back this one again in the future.