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holy shit! this was my first book of 2024, and to say it had a big impact on me would be understating the situation dramatically.
picked it up while traveling and started reading on the train back, absolutely could not put it down. i had a delightful and new experience of finding sections of prose that resonated so strongly with me, i felt compelled to just stop and reread the lines a few times in place.
the characters manage to feel both intimately real and magically unreal, in a way that makes the book feel like a dream, familiar but hazy.
fair warning that reading this book is one of a handful of things that helped me realize i was a girl, ymmv
Feb 29, 2024
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“I discover a journey not identical to my life’s path, and yet blazed with the intimate familiarity of my own lived experience. I locate theory—the way it is lived— in motion and in interconnection. Not hard to understand; hard to live.“
- Leslie Feinberg (10th anniversary edition)
heartwrenching from start to finish. a warm hug for someone like me.
i can’t really criticize the writing of this book, just because it’s the uniqueness and importance of this story that sets it apart. it is a story that absolutely needed to be written. what’s even more amazing is that such simple writing could capture the lived intricacies of gender and sexuality in so many shades.
i had never felt seen like this.
Jan 7, 2025
Just read Writing by Marguerite Duras in one go which is often either a sign of my mental health going haywire or a book being so tantalizingly real and/or inspiring that time goes out the window and I am hooked into every word like a calf to a teat in search of protein I was especially drawn into these reflections about writing a book and what it means to a be a writer A contradiction that is both of the world and seperate from it that is a witness and being witnessed constantly in two phases Highly recommend for writers and readers that love reading writing about writing
Dec 21, 2024
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my favourite book !! when i first read it i didn’t know writing could take form in this way or resonate with me so deeply. opened me up in a lot of ways. even when i re read sections of it now i gain something new- highly recommend
Dec 12, 2024
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