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So bold, funny, poetic, melodramatic, and shameless. It’s hilarious that this is the opening paragraph of a 500 page memoir.
I love how she confesses these anxieties and apparent failures and yet also has this passion for life and writing to still tell people her story… like she’s not getting over anything!! Who says you have to!
Also pioneer of lesbian relationship autofiction did I mention that
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Unlike anything I have ever read before. Raw. Dazzling. Paradigm-shifting. Tender. I have just been chewing through it. Underlining every third sentence. I was reading it while eating French toast this morning and leaning over to reach the straw of my iced oat milk latte with my mouth because I literally did not want to take my hands off the pages.
Feb 25, 2024
When I first started reading this I was in shock because I didn’t know people were allowed to write books like this — so incredibly honest in an almost jarring way. I’m already re-reading it.
The book is only around 65 pages and is a reflection on a passionate affair Annie had with a married man. She was so obsessed with him in, at times, a very relatable way. It feels so intimate, like you’re reading a personal diary.
Feb 4, 2024
“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
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It’s funny being alive in the early rubbish days of AI.
Listened to my Wrapped Ai podcast on Spotify and got to experience my artificially-generated bodyless soulless ‘host’ chuckle and say ‘I can just imagine you strutting down the street listening to the BRAT album’
Dec 4, 2024