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marialianou 's review for:
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: Essays on Modern Life
by Pandora Sykes
3,5*
Ενδιαφέροντα τα θέματα με τα οποία καταπιάνεται, αλλά υπάρχουν φορές που μοιάζει πιο πολύ με μια ακαδημαϊκή εργασία παρά με δοκίμιο.
Επίσης νιώθω απίστευτη ταύτιση με αυτό το απόσπασμα από το δοκίμιο "Relentless Pleasure":
«People often ask me how I read as much as I do, and the truth is that I prioritise it - often to the detriment of most other things (like cooking). When I read for two hours without distraction, I don't feel marvellous because I am specifically shunning technology; I enjoy it because I am indulging in a single narrative, made of equal parts focus and imagination. As Laura Freeman, the arts journalist and author of The Reading Cure, puts it, rather beautifully: 'A book never bothers. A book doesn't wheedle. No one has asked you to subscribe, sign up, enter your card details, your username, your password. The battery never dies. The WiFi never cuts out. In an age when we are ever more targeted and profiled and mined for information, reading a book allows you to be, for so long as the covers hold you, truly quiet and undisturbed.' It is the only time when I feel that I am escaping the noise of the contemporary world. Not just the actual noise, but the anxious noise in my head. Reading is a crucial part of my mental health. I don't want to say that it's 'self-care', as that almost trivialises it and makes it sound temporary. Rather, it is and has always been, an essential part of me. it is probably my defining characteristic. Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do.»
Ενδιαφέροντα τα θέματα με τα οποία καταπιάνεται, αλλά υπάρχουν φορές που μοιάζει πιο πολύ με μια ακαδημαϊκή εργασία παρά με δοκίμιο.
Επίσης νιώθω απίστευτη ταύτιση με αυτό το απόσπασμα από το δοκίμιο "Relentless Pleasure":
«People often ask me how I read as much as I do, and the truth is that I prioritise it - often to the detriment of most other things (like cooking). When I read for two hours without distraction, I don't feel marvellous because I am specifically shunning technology; I enjoy it because I am indulging in a single narrative, made of equal parts focus and imagination. As Laura Freeman, the arts journalist and author of The Reading Cure, puts it, rather beautifully: 'A book never bothers. A book doesn't wheedle. No one has asked you to subscribe, sign up, enter your card details, your username, your password. The battery never dies. The WiFi never cuts out. In an age when we are ever more targeted and profiled and mined for information, reading a book allows you to be, for so long as the covers hold you, truly quiet and undisturbed.' It is the only time when I feel that I am escaping the noise of the contemporary world. Not just the actual noise, but the anxious noise in my head. Reading is a crucial part of my mental health. I don't want to say that it's 'self-care', as that almost trivialises it and makes it sound temporary. Rather, it is and has always been, an essential part of me. it is probably my defining characteristic. Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do.»