Somebody’s Daughter is like stomach droppingly exacting in describing identity related struggles growing up as a girl with a family and relationships like omfg but you won’t even realize you’re reading nonfiction
I Am Not Myself These Days is like being brought into a vaccume like emotional word that is so wacky that you also will hesitate to lump it in with a more traditional nonfiction book
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not that the MC is a ghost or something but just that feeling a book gives off when you only know the characters' first names (how should a person be sheila heti) or you dont know their name at all (whereabouts jhumpa lahiri). even the autobiography of alice b toklas is sort of like this because toklas didn't actually write it and it's barely about her.
like they obviously exist in the world of the story but because you have less details and definitions, there's no question that you are reading a story as you read. when the characters are sort of enigmatic or allegorical it leaves more room for imagination and projection. makes them more of an idea than something you have to physically picture which is dope
Feb 23, 2024
good companion piece to her films and good on its own if you don’t know who she is. Very sad and raw the most emotions I’ve felt in months.
Jan 15, 2025
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Sheila Heti is one of my favorite novelists. Each new book seems to be a step in a larger literary project, or an expansion of a Heti-ian way of thinking. They break aesthetic ground but are also a pleasure to read. How Should a Person Be is key reading for whatever “modern life” is at this point and Motherhood is a daring examination of choice — her use of I Ching coin tosses as a literary mechanism is breathtaking Her latest is Pure Colour, which moves from a fairy-tale-ish story of young city-dwelling adults into a more abstract mythology of grief, art, nature, and beauty. It can’t be described, which is high praise for writing, and yet it’s seamless and joyous. Almost more a painting than a novel.
Feb 22, 2022
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Guys I made a portfolio. (Click to see full image) I’m thinking of starting commissions for portraits for like 10$. Pencil or charcoal or digital. My funds are dangerousllllyyyy low these days lol.
What do we think?
If anyone wants one dm me for info:)
Apr 10, 2025
Its snowing today-in April- just for me. Snow is something special and personal to me. So the universe basically just wished me a happy birthday. Here’s to 24 I guess.
Apr 7, 2025