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Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
4.0
i know!! me, not rating anything of anne carson's 5 stars? [shocked gasps from the audience]
i think, along with bone map, this is one of those books where i understand the literary viewpoint that it is absolutely gorgeous & groundbreaking but it just isn't for me in its entirety. there are some lines that i loved, phrases that shook me, but as an entirety it didn't pierce me the way, say, night sky did. honestly i think the [cough] "aesthetic" didn't fit mine in here. & tbh i was so much more interested in geryon's relationship with ancash rather than herakles so halfway through reading this i was dreadingg giving it a 3 but thank god he saved the day. also those translations > the actual retelling..... sorry ms carson.
i think, along with bone map, this is one of those books where i understand the literary viewpoint that it is absolutely gorgeous & groundbreaking but it just isn't for me in its entirety. there are some lines that i loved, phrases that shook me, but as an entirety it didn't pierce me the way, say, night sky did. honestly i think the [cough] "aesthetic" didn't fit mine in here. & tbh i was so much more interested in geryon's relationship with ancash rather than herakles so halfway through reading this i was dreadingg giving it a 3 but thank god he saved the day. also those translations > the actual retelling..... sorry ms carson.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
5.0
my god... really, how do i even start talking about this book? that i want carl sagan to be my uncle? that i finally found a "science"-y person who also appreciates the wonder of the universe, world, & humanity so intensely that i feel it in my chest? that the soliloquy in the backbone of night made me want to cry because of how beautiful it is? i don't know. this book just affirms me even more that i have to be the person who still believes in the interconnection of the humanities/arts & the sciences, because as carl sagan so eloquently puts it in here, they're all part of humanity. the choice is clearly the universe or nothing. cosmos both humbled & uplifted me. i can't thank it enough.
Girl at War by Sara Nović
5.0
my only complaint was YOU CAN'T END IT LIKE THAT WHt NO I WANTED MORE