Minor Feelings

I'm sad about it but this book just didn't work for me. I LOVED the first ~100 pages but then it just lost me. I wish it had been more of a memoir, but in many moments it felt like something I would have been assigned in grad school - which isn't necessarily a negative, but it's a specific kind of reading. I really disliked the section focused on Erin and Helen, I felt like it lost a lot of momentum picked up in the first half of the book, and I just generally have a very limited appetite for thinking about the political climate of 2016 - it's still too charged for me. Also a lot of art-specific stuff that went over my head.

Stuff I personally would have liked to pre-read in order to best digest this book: Jhumpa Lahiri, Ocean Vuong, Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Catcher in the Rye, Wordsworth, and the Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom