A review by frogwithlittlehammer
Outline by Rachel Cusk

reflective

3.75

Very fortuitous that all of her interviewees speak in just her cadence, huh. Almost DNFed as I thought it would be better suited for when I one day travel to Athens and also because if I’m going to be reading in English I am looking for a trashy and campy thing. But I continued because I enjoyed too much her insights on love and marriage. On the latter she writes, “You build a whole structure on a period of intensity that’s never repeated.” And from this quote on I have been developing the thought that I have an alarmingly large capacity to love after all, as this is all I do. 

It’s funny, because of how much I haven’t been reading in English this year, I felt so much on autopilot while reading Outline, as if I’d written this book myself and it was just an old journal I was paging through. Then, I was sitting in my regular cafe reading this and eavesdropping on the wizard of a barista who was handling with finesse both the rush and pleasant conversations with many insufferable people and I thought how much I missed haphazardly affective interactions with strangers, who I could compare myself to and distinguish myself from in order to understand better my identity. 

Oops I am getting introspective again, seems unfortunately it’s that time of year when I’ve got trigger fingers and restless legs and an overactive cerebrality about me.