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A review by katellison
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
4.0
i love manguso's economical prose but then the book becomes pro-baby/parenthood which is gross
"Shortly after the turn of the millennium, I read the diary from beginning to end. Finding nothing of consequence in 1996, I threw the year away.
I'd already shredded the volumes I wrote in high school--not to keep them from others but to keep them from myself. So it seems I didn't want to remember everything.
I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was."
"Shortly after the turn of the millennium, I read the diary from beginning to end. Finding nothing of consequence in 1996, I threw the year away.
I'd already shredded the volumes I wrote in high school--not to keep them from others but to keep them from myself. So it seems I didn't want to remember everything.
I wanted to remember what I could bear to remember and convince myself it was all there was."