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A review by aadya
Another Country by James Baldwin
3.5
FINALLY omg I feel like I really battled through this but I was determined because I think it was enriching and I worry I’m becoming fundamentally stupid as measured by not reading classics.
I did enjoy this, I just found it difficult to read many pages in a sitting. Some of the dialect I struggled to understand so I was just guessing the vibes. A few sentences in French that got the cogs turning for me. A few gorg lines a took photos of quite a few pages which I feel is generally a measure of I liked it.
I did enjoy this, I just found it difficult to read many pages in a sitting. Some of the dialect I struggled to understand so I was just guessing the vibes. A few sentences in French that got the cogs turning for me. A few gorg lines a took photos of quite a few pages which I feel is generally a measure of I liked it.
Sometimes we make it, beautifully. And sometimes we don’t. And it’s hideous.
A lot of great confrontation vibes I liked the scene where Cass says you can’t say men have made something up because what they’ve made up is everything there is
Obviously some incisive race commentary that is surprisingly and maybe sadly contemporary. Like when Ida hits Vivaldi with “because you’re white” every so often… lovely. I also liked Ida’s ‘grim view on love’ monologue
Ok in summary I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t love this because I think it makes me a bad person and an unintelligent reader but i don’t think I can say I loved it since it took me like 2 months to read and I finished maybe 5 other books between starting and finishing this one….