Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - Bluets

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dearbhlanoonan's review

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challenging reflective fast-paced

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mads_jpg's review

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dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

1.25

It's ironic that Nelson spends so much of this book debating whether putting something in writing robs it of its essence, since I thought I'd love reading about blue but I actually really disliked this book. Maybe it was her frequent insistence on referring to sex as "fucking". Idk maybe this is just my asexuality showing but I find it so annoying when writers talk about their "lovers" *gag*. There were some lines that I did like but overall it just wasn't what I thought this book would be, I guess.

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stuffinmybrainhole's review

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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bi_n_large's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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penofpossibilities's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

“but I can say this: in watching her, sitting with her, helping her, weeping with her, touching her, and talking with her, I have seen the bright pith of her soul. I cannot tell you what it looks like, but I can say that I have seen it."

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lcyarnall1's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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hannahdulaney's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

I first tried reading this little blue book back in August of 2021, but every time I picked it back up I would start it over, hoping I'd be able to glean all its wisdom in one afternoon. That being said, I've probably read the first fifty pages ten times over at this point, and finally told myself that I needed to finish it over the course of 24 hours maximum. I'm so glad I did as the last few pages severed something in me that needed severing. It's been a few weeks now since I finished Bluets, and Maggie Nelson's masterful stanzas are still living rent-free in my brain as I'm sure they will be for a long long time. My favorite of them being <"I admit that I may have been lonely. I know that loneliness can produce bolts of hot pain, a pain which, if it stays hot enough for long enough, can begin to simulate or to provoke---take your pick---an apprehension of the divine. (This ought to arouse our suspicions.)">

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christinereichard's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Essay entries describe the indescribable feeling of obsession and how it bleeds into other challenging emotions. If I read & digested this again, I'd surely bump it to a 5/5 despite actually hating the color blue.

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