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All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg
5.0
I love this book. I love Natalia Ginzburg.
Ginzburg is unapologetic in her writing and that is what I love. The pacing is slow and she doesn’t care if you have the time. It’s on you to care, it’s on you to get invested. Ginzburg just tells the story without imposing any way you should feel. I felt like I gave a little bit of myself to this book and I got a little bit of it to carry around with me. The scene setting, the dialogue, the musings about life and death; it’s all so beautiful. No book I have read has been quite so perfectly executed.
I said this about the last Ginzburg book I read but I’ll say it again- no author displays such an excellent and uncompromising understanding of what it means to be human as she does. That, for me, is why she can get away with not coercing the reader to feel a certain way because the feeling is already there as a human being reading about being human.
I am normally left with a thirst for more reading after finishing a book but I desperately do not want to start another book for a while- I want to bathe in what I just read.
Ginzburg is unapologetic in her writing and that is what I love. The pacing is slow and she doesn’t care if you have the time. It’s on you to care, it’s on you to get invested. Ginzburg just tells the story without imposing any way you should feel. I felt like I gave a little bit of myself to this book and I got a little bit of it to carry around with me. The scene setting, the dialogue, the musings about life and death; it’s all so beautiful. No book I have read has been quite so perfectly executed.
I said this about the last Ginzburg book I read but I’ll say it again- no author displays such an excellent and uncompromising understanding of what it means to be human as she does. That, for me, is why she can get away with not coercing the reader to feel a certain way because the feeling is already there as a human being reading about being human.
I am normally left with a thirst for more reading after finishing a book but I desperately do not want to start another book for a while- I want to bathe in what I just read.