A review by leecalliope
Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

 I really enjoy the essay-collection/memoir hybrid. I think John Hodgman is quite good at it. This is a sort of sad book? Which I also enjoyed. Sad books for sad times. I think largely I'm in another narrative-is-inherently-immoral phase, and I really appreciate the act of overlaying a narrative structure on real-life events in a way which both allows me to parse it as a story and also acknowledge that the narrative impulse is always imperfect. And Hodgman writes in a way that does regularly acknowledge the overly-constructed narrative arc.

Which is just to say. We're always choosing randomly how/to what to ascribe meaning, and I like that to be made very explicit.

It's poignant and well-written and just goes down very smoothly! I had a nice time.