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A review by kaydee
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits
5.0
Sometimes I think things that I don't share with another soul. Or perhaps I'll share them with my select devoted few. This book is full of those kind of things.
This is a diary but not in a chronological sense and while each entry starts with 'Today I' they often morph into reminiscences of things that happened in the distant past, or last week and opinion and philosophising.
It is an exploration of self in an almost Proustian manner, that concept of involuntary memory. I loved that Julavits seems to really know herself and (mostly) genuinely likes herself. It is mercifully free of self-loathing and self-aggrandising (which would have been an easy trap to fall into given the charmed life that is being examined).
Julavits is engaging and funny and I identified with so much of what she revealed here.
'I am also missing a person I know only from a book.'
This is a diary but not in a chronological sense and while each entry starts with 'Today I' they often morph into reminiscences of things that happened in the distant past, or last week and opinion and philosophising.
It is an exploration of self in an almost Proustian manner, that concept of involuntary memory. I loved that Julavits seems to really know herself and (mostly) genuinely likes herself. It is mercifully free of self-loathing and self-aggrandising (which would have been an easy trap to fall into given the charmed life that is being examined).
Julavits is engaging and funny and I identified with so much of what she revealed here.
'I am also missing a person I know only from a book.'