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A review by a_modernstoryteller
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
5.0
There's something about essay collections that tackle media and the connections that the author may have to it that is just amazing.
But at the same time saying that this book is just a collection of essays about music and films wouldn't make it justice, because it's so much more than that.
Because there's a big heart here, displayed in every essay and every text. It's a display where Hanif Abdurraqib shows us the music that he loves, the artists that have marked his life, the concerts that have mattered and he tells us: 'See? That's why all of this matters to me. That's what this evokes me, these are the feelings that come through, the thoughts they have brought me, the things that they have inspired me to say'
And that...
That's truly everything.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I love this kind of non-fiction that picks any piece of media and deconstructs it, trying to show it through the eyes and thoughts of the person that has loved and has been changed by it. And maybe that's why I love Bookstagram too. Isn't that what we do in the end?
TL;DR: I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!
But at the same time saying that this book is just a collection of essays about music and films wouldn't make it justice, because it's so much more than that.
Because there's a big heart here, displayed in every essay and every text. It's a display where Hanif Abdurraqib shows us the music that he loves, the artists that have marked his life, the concerts that have mattered and he tells us: 'See? That's why all of this matters to me. That's what this evokes me, these are the feelings that come through, the thoughts they have brought me, the things that they have inspired me to say'
And that...
That's truly everything.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I love this kind of non-fiction that picks any piece of media and deconstructs it, trying to show it through the eyes and thoughts of the person that has loved and has been changed by it. And maybe that's why I love Bookstagram too. Isn't that what we do in the end?
TL;DR: I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!