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A review by writtenontheflyleaves
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
4.75
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy ๐ฒ
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โด The concept: Writer Deborah Levy examines her life in the aftermath of her shipwrecked marriage. Her musings take in love, grief, being a whole person, relations between men and women, writing. Itโs beautiful and wandering, a meditation.
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This book really crept up on me. @the.storygraph tells me Iโve been reading it for 9 days, but it doesnโt feel anywhere near that long. It feels like only a few days ago I was plodding along with it, enjoying the way that Levy writes about her life like a fragile thing sheโs turning over in her hands. Then all of a sudden I was hooked, and almost in the same moment it was over. I read over half the book yesterday afternoon I think. Every page seemed to bring a new and peculiar insight, and I wrote so many quotes down in my journal upon finishing.
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๐ Read it if you love memoir, and particularly writersโ memoirs. This is a really great one. Also if you like essays that meditate on relations between men and women, and aging.
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๐ซ Avoid it if you like essays or memoirs to have a strong direction. This is much more impressionistic, it ebbs and flows and takes you inside her mind, rather than through a gallery of scenes.
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Overall, I loved it and itโs made me want to revisit Things I Donโt Want to Know! I think itโs also (hopefully ๐ค๐ป) put paid to my December reading slump as Iโm now in a mood to be reading all the time!
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โด The concept: Writer Deborah Levy examines her life in the aftermath of her shipwrecked marriage. Her musings take in love, grief, being a whole person, relations between men and women, writing. Itโs beautiful and wandering, a meditation.
-
This book really crept up on me. @the.storygraph tells me Iโve been reading it for 9 days, but it doesnโt feel anywhere near that long. It feels like only a few days ago I was plodding along with it, enjoying the way that Levy writes about her life like a fragile thing sheโs turning over in her hands. Then all of a sudden I was hooked, and almost in the same moment it was over. I read over half the book yesterday afternoon I think. Every page seemed to bring a new and peculiar insight, and I wrote so many quotes down in my journal upon finishing.
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๐ Read it if you love memoir, and particularly writersโ memoirs. This is a really great one. Also if you like essays that meditate on relations between men and women, and aging.
-
๐ซ Avoid it if you like essays or memoirs to have a strong direction. This is much more impressionistic, it ebbs and flows and takes you inside her mind, rather than through a gallery of scenes.
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Overall, I loved it and itโs made me want to revisit Things I Donโt Want to Know! I think itโs also (hopefully ๐ค๐ป) put paid to my December reading slump as Iโm now in a mood to be reading all the time!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief