bibliophile_02 's review for:

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

3.25

hopeful reflective medium-paced

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Looks like she really meant it when she said I'm writing this book for myself and not you. It really felt like a bunch of ramblings written after a week of sleepless nights. It did not feel like it was edited at all, I suppose that does align with her thoughts in the book. Honestly each of those chapters could have been condensed to one single message and hence six messages in total which could have been 1 page instead of 300. My only takeaways from this book really are that you should steadily pursue what you like (mostly in the background of other more important things) and that she has a lot of artist friends who've agreed to be quoted in this book (or maybe not).