I feel like this book found me during the most adequate moment in my life.
Sep 29, 2024
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I read it years ago so the details are hazy but I still think about it often. Does a really good job depicting what itβs like to be a human trapped in your own body and mind, and trying so hard to connect with another, but sometimes our own devices get in the way. how something as minor as indigestion can feel like an insurmountable and untimely occurence
Feb 4, 2025
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Itβ a beautiful and heart breaking memoir that changed the way I view the world. The perspective this book gave me is incredible, and taught me so much about how to be grateful, and how to live happily in the moment despite the darkness that often surrounds us.
Dec 14, 2024
I know I am technically late to this book but I just finished it and it has fundamentally changed me forever. Maybe its because I am an academic, or because I often introduce myself as the speaker of 2 and a half languages but it hit hard. It is vivid and spectacular and grief inducing and devastating. It has so much heart, so much love, yet so much despair. The attention to detail regarding history and conflicting philosophies, politics, religious beliefs and belief systems is so carefully and precisely constructed, it is in and of itself poetry. It's so vivid that I can taste it, I can feel the texture of the pages, different passages are rattling around my brain and I can remember where I read them, I am a different person from before I read this book. After the reading slump I was in, it feels like all along I was waiting to find this book, I didn't know I was missing it, or waiting for it and yet when I read it it is like all at once I suddenly knew that I had needed this book all along. Read it, if you are one of those people that gets skeptical of things that reach a certain level of popularity, just know that all the hype in the world has undersold this book. It is that good. And yes, I attached a low light photo of my copy because I have reread chapters of this so often that the pages are curling, fished it out of my backpack when I found random spots to sit or stand idly, accidentally smudged it when I immediately reached for it after writing sprawling pages in my notebooks. You see how my earphones aren't connected to anything because all I am thinking about is this book? Yeah exactly! This is a good fucking book I am so serious you guys if you have held off on reading it, bump it up your list.
Jan 9, 2025
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if ur a hoarder and want to keep leaflets flowers bills pictures etc
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you should definitely get yourself a small notebook and watch him getting chunkier
it made me observe my surroundings better cuz now im constantly looking for things i can put here.
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