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ejreadswords's Reviews (100)
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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dark
emotional
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adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
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It's the book I needed at the time. And there'll be so much to pull from it for life!
Evan Puschak, more affectionately known as NerdWriter on YouTube, was one of my first and favorite YouTube video essayists to follow. I don't really follow any at all anymore, so for him to make that mark on me means something.
You can hear his voice shine through in these distillations of huge ideas, by way of pop culture, cinema, art, music, and just his discoveries as a fellow vagabond of life.
He references a lot, and sometimes 'tastemakers' really just assemble these seemingly unrelated and innocuous points, combine them, and then create something totally new and digestible. It's like when you're at an art museum, and if a painting reminds you of a tv show you just watched, that's not bad. It's our frame of reference; the tv show scene or shot made you feel a certain way, right? In what way is the painting, a work from an unknown French painter some time in the 1500s, evoking a similar feeling?
Emerson said, which Puschak referenced in an essay, that "we learn by expressing, not thinking." Him writing down that revelation in a way, helped something stick with him. Me writing this review, remembering how I felt while reading it, helps me express these thoughts, emotions, and inspirations from his musings.
"Culture guides us, but there is a thing as agency. Individuals get their symbols from culture, but we can choose how to put them together. That's the work of thinking, the source of new ideas on which an evolving culture depends. Every mind can add to the symbolic commonwealth." -- dang.
"In art, you can indulge in the consolations reason denies in life." -- oof
I also got to fondly recall when I sat on some green senat chairs in Paris from his chapter about the public benches, my favorite one.
Evan Puschak, more affectionately known as NerdWriter on YouTube, was one of my first and favorite YouTube video essayists to follow. I don't really follow any at all anymore, so for him to make that mark on me means something.
You can hear his voice shine through in these distillations of huge ideas, by way of pop culture, cinema, art, music, and just his discoveries as a fellow vagabond of life.
He references a lot, and sometimes 'tastemakers' really just assemble these seemingly unrelated and innocuous points, combine them, and then create something totally new and digestible. It's like when you're at an art museum, and if a painting reminds you of a tv show you just watched, that's not bad. It's our frame of reference; the tv show scene or shot made you feel a certain way, right? In what way is the painting, a work from an unknown French painter some time in the 1500s, evoking a similar feeling?
Emerson said, which Puschak referenced in an essay, that "we learn by expressing, not thinking." Him writing down that revelation in a way, helped something stick with him. Me writing this review, remembering how I felt while reading it, helps me express these thoughts, emotions, and inspirations from his musings.
"Culture guides us, but there is a thing as agency. Individuals get their symbols from culture, but we can choose how to put them together. That's the work of thinking, the source of new ideas on which an evolving culture depends. Every mind can add to the symbolic commonwealth." -- dang.
"In art, you can indulge in the consolations reason denies in life." -- oof
I also got to fondly recall when I sat on some green senat chairs in Paris from his chapter about the public benches, my favorite one.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
10/10. I loved this. Each story so vast and full, silly and crazy, but all so romantic — sometimes in ways you wouldn’t expect.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A tremendous work. I love Miranda July :)
The last short story might be my favorite one.
The last short story might be my favorite one.