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A review by gabesteller
Night Moves by Jessica Hopper
4.0
Memoir of Biking and going to shows in the Early 2000's in Chicago. Read cuz I bike! and I go to Shows! And I live in Chicago! although I've had this book for like 3 years I waited till i knew the city (And Lydia recommended it again) to actually read.
My main quibble is that Jessica Hopper does not mention being hit by a car while on her bike, which is inaccurate to the life of the daily Chicago biker according to anecdotal and personal experience.
As for the good stuff I loooved the structure, which is like 1-3 page vignettes mixed up chronologically
but roughly sorted by theme, which felt closer to the feeling of memory and weaves this emotional portrait of the years when Hopper was striving and finding her voice.
But it also makes for this sense of fleetingness, and melancholy mixed with joie de vivre, that ,I don't know, it left me with a slightly hollow feeling. Theres a sense that while Jessica makes it out, not a lot other people do, and I suppose thats just life. hmmm
anyway was fun and often beautiful, even if it left me sorta uneasy. TY 4 rec lydia
My main quibble is that Jessica Hopper does not mention being hit by a car while on her bike, which is inaccurate to the life of the daily Chicago biker according to anecdotal and personal experience.
As for the good stuff I loooved the structure, which is like 1-3 page vignettes mixed up chronologically
but roughly sorted by theme, which felt closer to the feeling of memory and weaves this emotional portrait of the years when Hopper was striving and finding her voice.
But it also makes for this sense of fleetingness, and melancholy mixed with joie de vivre, that ,I don't know, it left me with a slightly hollow feeling. Theres a sense that while Jessica makes it out, not a lot other people do, and I suppose thats just life. hmmm
anyway was fun and often beautiful, even if it left me sorta uneasy. TY 4 rec lydia