A review by auroraboringallofus
The Lightness by Emily Temple

3.0

The book is about passion, desire, longing, and belief, I guess, but wow is it tedious. ("That same old slog," as the narrator says repeatedly to dismiss some cliched turn of events. How appropriate.) Perfectly, for a book about Buddhism, I felt completely detached, uninvolved, uninvested, removed -- no compulsion to continue with this book. It should have been interesting, since it pulls together so many themes and points of references. But it was just one big boring shrug.