A review by in2reading
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters

3.0

I have very mixed feelings about this book. Through much of it I felt rather annoyed with the author and his thoughts about the writer of the diaries.

Spoiler

But after the diarist was identified and found alive, I admired her thoughts about her writing. And I was glad that the author recognized that many of his conjectures were not true. This book feels like a cautionary tale about ascribing meaning and motives to anyone, even with the possession of millions of their written words.