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aki_flyte's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
ppchili93's review
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
“Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part”
“I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.”
“For as long as I can remember, this has been one of my favorite feelings. To be alone in public, wandering at night, or lying close to the earth, anonymous, invisible, floating. To be ‘a man of the crowd,’ or, conversely, alone with Nature or your god. To make your claims on public space even as you feel yourself disappearing into its largesse, into its sublimity. To practice for death by feeling completely empty, but somehow still alive.
It’s a sensation that people have tried, in various times and places, to keep women from feeling. Many still try. You’ve been told a million times that to be alone and female and in public late at night is to court disaster, so it’s impossible to know if you’re being bold and free or stupid and self-destructive. And sometimes practicing for death is just practicing for death. As a teenager I liked to take baths in the dark with coins placed over my eyes.”
“I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.”
“For as long as I can remember, this has been one of my favorite feelings. To be alone in public, wandering at night, or lying close to the earth, anonymous, invisible, floating. To be ‘a man of the crowd,’ or, conversely, alone with Nature or your god. To make your claims on public space even as you feel yourself disappearing into its largesse, into its sublimity. To practice for death by feeling completely empty, but somehow still alive.
It’s a sensation that people have tried, in various times and places, to keep women from feeling. Many still try. You’ve been told a million times that to be alone and female and in public late at night is to court disaster, so it’s impossible to know if you’re being bold and free or stupid and self-destructive. And sometimes practicing for death is just practicing for death. As a teenager I liked to take baths in the dark with coins placed over my eyes.”
calliebella's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
silentreadernaomi's review against another edition
3.0
True crime: er zijn boeken, series, documentaires, TikToks en noem maar op. En eerlijk gezegd, ik kijk/lees het zo nu en dan ook. Maar staan we echt stil bij hoe het nou echt voor de familie is? Eigenlijk niet. Dit (autobiografische) boek neemt je mee naar het perspectief van de familie, waarbij true crime vanuit de andere kant wordt belicht. Het is indrukwekkend en zet je aan het denken. Het boek week af en toe af van het hoofdonderwerp, maar deze zijsporen waren zeker niet slecht (geschreven). Hierdoor moest ik wel af en toe extra opletten, het ging soms wat ‘door elkaar heen’ als het ware.
savaging's review against another edition
4.0
I mostly avoid the True Crime genre, because I don't like what it does to my dreams and my heart, how it shapes the way I look at others. Reading about random violent crime makes me move through the world with more fear, my movement constricted, my best impulses stifled.
This lyrical-literary memoir isn't completely free of that problem. But it feels more intentional about giving readers (especially readers who are women) room to remain brave and free. Also, it sits better with ambiguity and unease, instead of drawing any neat conclusions about guilt and punishment.
This lyrical-literary memoir isn't completely free of that problem. But it feels more intentional about giving readers (especially readers who are women) room to remain brave and free. Also, it sits better with ambiguity and unease, instead of drawing any neat conclusions about guilt and punishment.
steelcutoats's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
5.0
chels14's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.25