A review by hrhacissej
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

 
I don't think reading this book during a pandemic was the best idea for me.

O'Farrell is a wonderful writer. Her prose gets to the heart of what she's experiencing succinctly but with an enormous depth. She FEELS things; she writes them down; you read them; and then you FEEL things.

Feeling things is a good thing, but right now, I FEEL a lot of things. Most of them anxiety producing.

In this book of essays, O'Farrell shares 17 of her near death experiences. And even though, I know she's alive (duh...she wrote the book...), I got so anxious reading some of these stories.

So, pardon me, but I skimmed some of them and promptly returned the book to the library. Just breathe. 
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