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A review by lizawall
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
The opening of this book is basically perfect, but can I just say... this is the first book I've managed to read in a long time not explicitly by/about queer ladies, and it is just so CHOCK FULL of cock and hetero oppression. Is this how they all are? Did I forget? It's maybe not really fair to blame the book, like she is just telling her truth, but ugh.
I actually liked the part in the beginning where she talked about how 19th c had novels and our age has blowjobs, but did not expect so many literal blowjobs. Not to yuck her yum, but I just wished she would cut it out. Of course I loved the lady friend times, the title, and, like I said, the introduction. Also parts of it kind of reminded me of a lazy [a:Iris Murdoch|7287|Iris Murdoch|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1238673382p2/7287.jpg] (including, actually, the thrall to dumb dudes), which is pretty good.
I actually liked the part in the beginning where she talked about how 19th c had novels and our age has blowjobs, but did not expect so many literal blowjobs. Not to yuck her yum, but I just wished she would cut it out. Of course I loved the lady friend times, the title, and, like I said, the introduction. Also parts of it kind of reminded me of a lazy [a:Iris Murdoch|7287|Iris Murdoch|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1238673382p2/7287.jpg] (including, actually, the thrall to dumb dudes), which is pretty good.