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mcwat's review against another edition
1.0
I rarely give a rating this low, but I just didn't like this at all. I don't think I got whatever there was to get. Probably would've felt differently if I'd read it in a worse mood. Would have liked it last Wednesday, for example.
pagewanderer_'s review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
I read this in my 20's and it really resonated with me. Maybe because Mira and I are the same age and had very similar experiences. I love the way she is able to capture those 'weird' feelings and being able to describe what I never could. Reading this again in my 30's, I still feel such a kinship to it and it reminds me of where I've been and how far I've come.
If you ever felt different or alone, Mira Gonzalez show you you were not the only one.
If you ever felt different or alone, Mira Gonzalez show you you were not the only one.
dvdpcp's review against another edition
4.0
Would have given 3.5 if able I think. Had written an entire paragraph working through my thoughts but my phone restarted & it got deleted. Was feeling pushback initially because this type of femininity that’s trying to finding meaning and identity outside of male desire isn’t something I experience and I think to be so dismissive of something I wanted for so long made me feel anger, which is stupid and either misogynistic or sad or both. But I worked through it while reading and was able to just sit with her emotions and let mine go and I really liked the abstractness of the imagery, and the titling of the poems. A lot’s happening in cars! That felt very LA to me. I liked how the descriptions of intimacy felt dissociative and clinical in a way I don’t experience, that felt very interesting. The feeling of being comforted by death was also a persistent undercurrent that is foreign to me but I understand. Overall liked but I think it didn’t speak to a truth I have and have tried to articulate, I was just absorbing someone else’s experience
jonathan_lee_b's review against another edition
5.0
I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together is a cold shower that gets warmer but cold again.
cameronbcook's review against another edition
Not everything works, but what does work is so good it’ll make you stand up
tyardley's review against another edition
1.0
Well if I had known I could take my blog posts from high school and become a published poet, I sure would have. I’m not exactly a poetry scholar, but I’m confused about the definition of “poetry” here.
I picked this up at goodwill because it was cute and small and had the word “fuck” in it. I am likely taking it back there because my bookshelf will not allow me to shelve this teeny 1/4” paperback.
I picked this up at goodwill because it was cute and small and had the word “fuck” in it. I am likely taking it back there because my bookshelf will not allow me to shelve this teeny 1/4” paperback.
zachwerb's review against another edition
2.0
It may seem unfair to compare this to others books in the recommended reading category, but it feels (justified?) to me. Alone with other people (Gabby Bess) deals with a feminine perspective combined with sexual experiences and the insufferable void that is our emotion with attachment to the internet, but does it in such a genuine and stylized way, that reading this fell short of that experience. Mira Gonzalez prose usually begin I, I, I, and although this is her choice, constantly saying I did something, I felt something, I ate something, does not constitute creating empathy (at least in my mind). This these actions could be taken as meaningless, but she constantly interacts with men and shares thoughts that I guess are meant to be vulnerable and become sort of shallow. Even when she talks about sex, its not taken to a raunchy/vulnerable place and it's so disassociated from any emotion the poems force the reader to view her in a sexless, sexual manner. She does not share her life, she takes action so she can have something to share to the reader.