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A review by ziltoidia
Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres by Jan Grue
4.0
I know this is a 5 star book, but for me it was a 3 star book, so I'll average it to 4. I'll certainly recommend this book without hesitation. But as ever, I struggle with books that expect me to read between the lines. Some paragraphs were a *pleasure* to read whereas I've got no clue what other paragraphs are trying to convey. So a lot of the 5-star material go straight over my head.
The book is doing many things at once, and I love it! But I struggled to get a sense of the structure as it's neither ordered thematically nor chronologically. I could read the paragraphs in a different order and it'd make the same amount of sense to me. I'd find bits that I was excited to read and then the book went back to the more clouded language I couldn't grasp.
In conclusion, I enjoyed this book more for the disability reflections than the writing style. And when those reflections were clear to me I was mentally cheering. If anything, it's the story of an emerging "I won't accept inaccessibility anymore" capital-D-Disabled person. In that sense, it reads more like the prequel to the beginning of a story, and I'm here for it. I can't wait to read the next book on my shelf by Grue.
The book is doing many things at once, and I love it! But I struggled to get a sense of the structure as it's neither ordered thematically nor chronologically. I could read the paragraphs in a different order and it'd make the same amount of sense to me. I'd find bits that I was excited to read and then the book went back to the more clouded language I couldn't grasp.
In conclusion, I enjoyed this book more for the disability reflections than the writing style. And when those reflections were clear to me I was mentally cheering. If anything, it's the story of an emerging "I won't accept inaccessibility anymore" capital-D-Disabled person. In that sense, it reads more like the prequel to the beginning of a story, and I'm here for it. I can't wait to read the next book on my shelf by Grue.