Kelsey
There's no great way to say this, but... I had absolutely 0 expectations for this book. Not that I expected it to be bad; I just hadn't heard anything about it, and I received it in a quarterly shipment of books that were chosen for me (and, historically, I've only liked about half of them).
So I was surprised at how much I loved it. The internal dialogue was so poignant and interesting that the story itself could meander somewhat aimlessly (and it did) without notice or care. There's so much I appreciated about the narrator that I hardly know where to start... She put words to things that I have only ever felt but not been able to describe. She told anecdotes without over-describing the characters with anything but their actions. She was self-reflective and self-aware in a way that I long to be but have never achieved. To me, this halfway memoir was basically a master class in journaling.
Would recommend to everyone I know. It's a quick 200-pager that provided more insights and challenging ideas than most 400+-page books I've ever read.
There's no great way to say this, but... I had absolutely 0 expectations for this book. Not that I expected it to be bad; I just hadn't heard anything about it, and I received it in a quarterly shipment of books that were chosen for me (and, historically, I've only liked about half of them).
So I was surprised at how much I loved it. The internal dialogue was so poignant and interesting that the story itself could meander somewhat aimlessly (and it did) without notice or care. There's so much I appreciated about the narrator that I hardly know where to start... She put words to things that I have only ever felt but not been able to describe. She told anecdotes without over-describing the characters with anything but their actions. She was self-reflective and self-aware in a way that I long to be but have never achieved. To me, this halfway memoir was basically a master class in journaling.
Would recommend to everyone I know. It's a quick 200-pager that provided more insights and challenging ideas than most 400+-page books I've ever read.