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jmack491 's review for:
Instructions for Dancing
by Nicola Yoon
I was not prepared to give this book four stars. And yet here we are.
First, it took me a week to read this when it should have taken me a day or two at most. This does not have the depth of Shakespeare, after all.
And yet, I also wouldn't say it's superficial -- though I might have said that if you had asked me what I thought of the story about 180 pages in. Yes, that's how long it took for this to really get going for me. But surprisingly, get going it did. Yoon actually ended up crafting an unexpectedly insightful coming-of-age story about love and life and yes, even dancing.
Now bear with me here, because I'm about to share something particularly cringey, but also very relevant to Yoon's message here. After a painful breakup, I got a quote tattooed on my bicep that says, "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." The difference here, of course, is that Evie didn't have to guess -- but she still took the leap. Because that's what life, and love, are all about.
Take the leap.
Side note: That quote? It's from Agnes de Mille, an award-winning dancer and choreographer.
First, it took me a week to read this when it should have taken me a day or two at most. This does not have the depth of Shakespeare, after all.
And yet, I also wouldn't say it's superficial -- though I might have said that if you had asked me what I thought of the story about 180 pages in. Yes, that's how long it took for this to really get going for me. But surprisingly, get going it did. Yoon actually ended up crafting an unexpectedly insightful coming-of-age story about love and life and yes, even dancing.
Now bear with me here, because I'm about to share something particularly cringey, but also very relevant to Yoon's message here. After a painful breakup, I got a quote tattooed on my bicep that says, "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." The difference here, of course, is that Evie didn't have to guess -- but she still took the leap. Because that's what life, and love, are all about.
Take the leap.
Side note: That quote? It's from Agnes de Mille, an award-winning dancer and choreographer.