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Girl, Woman, Other
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bookshelves: authors-of-color, literary-fiction, lgbt-plus, non-ya, diverse, 3-stars, unpopular-opinion, eh, project-black-history-month, reviewed
Feb 21, 2022
bookshelves: authors-of-color, literary-fiction, lgbt-plus, non-ya, diverse, 3-stars, unpopular-opinion, eh, project-black-history-month, reviewed
Here is the thing: In a sense, I'm loyal. I'm dedicated. I give everything my all.
Or, in other words: When I hate something, I really really hate something.
And one such example is poetry.
I decided I hated poetry one day in seventh grade and I've never...quite...been able to shake it. And I've tried!
I've read poetry by authors I like. I've read prose poetry and poetry-y prose. I've read new poems, old poems, overwrought poems, that kinda Instagram poem where you just
hit
enter a lot
at random
points
(the worst kind of all).
None of it works.
And so while I wanted to like this so much, and it is fundamentally about my favorite thing (different people and how we are all flawed but the best), and it is so impressive, and I am so susceptible to the power of a good ending, but the truth of the matter is that this style - a sort of slammy poetry - didn't work for me at all!
I think if the style or structure had varied person by person, it would actually have added to my enjoyment, but the liberal use of the enter key kept me at a distance from everyone, and definitely didn't help in keeping the characters straight.
It's a bajillion different characters with interchangeable perspectives! The voice never changed and I couldn't keep anyone straight, and it capped my enjoyment level pretty low.
This is still a good book.
It's just not for me.
Not every unpopular opinion is a fun one.
Bottom line: I'm sorry!!! I wish I were different.
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reading books by Black authors for Black History Month!
book 1: caste
book 2: business not as usual
book 3: the color purple
book 4: the parking lot attendant
book 5: kindred
book 6: wrapped up in you
book 7: the boyfriend project
book 8: a song below water
book 9: filthy animals
book 10: passing
book 11: seven days in june
book 12: ayiti
book 13: notes of a native son
book 14: mediocre
book 15: sister outsider
book 16: the blue road
book 17: the fastest way to fall
book 18: real life
book 19: girl, woman, other
Or, in other words: When I hate something, I really really hate something.
And one such example is poetry.
I decided I hated poetry one day in seventh grade and I've never...quite...been able to shake it. And I've tried!
I've read poetry by authors I like. I've read prose poetry and poetry-y prose. I've read new poems, old poems, overwrought poems, that kinda Instagram poem where you just
hit
enter a lot
at random
points
(the worst kind of all).
None of it works.
And so while I wanted to like this so much, and it is fundamentally about my favorite thing (different people and how we are all flawed but the best), and it is so impressive, and I am so susceptible to the power of a good ending, but the truth of the matter is that this style - a sort of slammy poetry - didn't work for me at all!
I think if the style or structure had varied person by person, it would actually have added to my enjoyment, but the liberal use of the enter key kept me at a distance from everyone, and definitely didn't help in keeping the characters straight.
It's a bajillion different characters with interchangeable perspectives! The voice never changed and I couldn't keep anyone straight, and it capped my enjoyment level pretty low.
This is still a good book.
It's just not for me.
Not every unpopular opinion is a fun one.
Bottom line: I'm sorry!!! I wish I were different.
-----------------
reading books by Black authors for Black History Month!
book 1: caste
book 2: business not as usual
book 3: the color purple
book 4: the parking lot attendant
book 5: kindred
book 6: wrapped up in you
book 7: the boyfriend project
book 8: a song below water
book 9: filthy animals
book 10: passing
book 11: seven days in june
book 12: ayiti
book 13: notes of a native son
book 14: mediocre
book 15: sister outsider
book 16: the blue road
book 17: the fastest way to fall
book 18: real life
book 19: girl, woman, other
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February 8, 2022
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Jul 24, 2022 02:37PM
I am so glad I am not the only one struggling with this! I don't even hate poetry but I'm on page 34 so far and this weird style of writing without any bullet points has bugged me since the first page and makes it so difficult to just focus on the content. My mind is just constantly going back and forth trying to figure out if something is still part of the current "sentence" or a new one.
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