A review by akshaya07
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson

2.0

It is funny that even though I am giving this book a lower rating I annotated this one a lot, and it has snippets that are stunning and relatable at times. The essay collection deals with topics like childhood memories and crushes, love interests, and how we perceive love later as an adult, desires and in turn, becoming objects of others' desires. As someone who has a habit of writing journals in this format, I was biased when I started this book. It is an essay collection, and we already know what to expect going into the book, right? However, despite dealing with intriguing topics of day-to-day life I couldn't grasp any depth in the whole collection. While some are more interesting than others, I personally liked her longer writings than short snippets. The longer ones had a narrative style, examples through experiences, and a way of including the readers to feel a relatability factor. It could have been better, but I loved some parts of the book even though all-in-all I wasn't a big fan.