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A review by lesausser
The Folded Clock: A Diary by Heidi Julavits
5.0
The beginning of this memoir felt slow to me; Julavits's choice to change the order of her diary entries bothered me and I couldn't understand her personality. Why was this even a diary at all? It was clearly written with the intention to be a book.
But then I kept reading.
There's something amazing about how you can connect with someone who in so many ways is unlike you. Yet once I settled in, I loved living inside Julavits's head and the world she created in the pages of a "diary." I didn't mind that situations felt forcibly linked because it's the type of thing I do in my own head. She said the things I think but an often too nervous about saying out loud or writing down. And by the end, she brought everything together. I realized she's been writing about what I fear every day- time is passing by us. By there are moments when we can grab on to it and not fear what time will bring next, but be reassured in what's coming next.
But then I kept reading.
There's something amazing about how you can connect with someone who in so many ways is unlike you. Yet once I settled in, I loved living inside Julavits's head and the world she created in the pages of a "diary." I didn't mind that situations felt forcibly linked because it's the type of thing I do in my own head. She said the things I think but an often too nervous about saying out loud or writing down. And by the end, she brought everything together. I realized she's been writing about what I fear every day- time is passing by us. By there are moments when we can grab on to it and not fear what time will bring next, but be reassured in what's coming next.