A review by cass_lit
Bluets by Maggie Nelson

2.0

As I was reading, before about the halfway mark, I thought maybe this just wasn’t for me. I liked the concept, but the execution wasn’t doing anything for me personally. I liked the exploration of blue and all of its meaning across various media, but I slightly disagreed with some of her takes. Possibly because Maggie Nelson came off as so pretentious, but we’ll never know. And then the “essays” (it’s really one long essay) became very focused on a friend of hers who became disabled in an accident. Like, borderline fetishly focused, which I thought was weird. And then, if that weren’t enough, Maggie Nelson throws out the r-word completely unnecessarily to reference Andy Warhol’s sexual tendencies. I was completely taken out of the collection and never brought back in. 
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