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Around the World Reading Challenge Item #14: A Book with One of the Five Ws or H in the Title
This is one of those books that is hard to review.
It's an "unconventional memoir," a collection of short reflections and memories that are instigated by Williams' mother bequeathing her journals to her before she dies. When Williams opens the journals, she finds nothing but blank pages.
I liked to imagine that Williams filled those journals with the thoughts that became this book, but that is never explic ...more
This is one of those books that is hard to review.
It's an "unconventional memoir," a collection of short reflections and memories that are instigated by Williams' mother bequeathing her journals to her before she dies. When Williams opens the journals, she finds nothing but blank pages.
I liked to imagine that Williams filled those journals with the thoughts that became this book, but that is never explic ...more
This is a beautiful memoir about a woman my age, finding her voice. The timing was perfect.
This book came highly recommended to me from friends and the folks at Book Riot. It was an engrossing book but not one that I'm sure I loved. I found the "set up" fascinating-- what do years worth of blank journals mean? At the same time, Williams' brand of feminism (at least in this book) isn't my kind of feminism. The introspection that lead to her own feminist awakening is interesting but for someone who thinks consciousness isn't enough, I wasn't sure what a reader was supposed to DO after r
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Beautiful language, as expected, but more esoteric than some of her work. Nonetheless, there is just so much heart in Tempest Williams' writing.
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Beautiful and wise. I'll be reading this one again and again.
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I really wanted to love this book, but it was so scattered that I just couldn't get enthusiastic. The book itself is beautiful and certain passages killed me. But overall, I was just frustrated by it.
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Oct 25, 2018
Laura Spaulding
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it was amazing
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This is a book I know I will go back to over and over, a book that leaves me contemplating.
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