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“Hard to look at this one objectively, the premise holds such potential and I feel thwarted by this particular execution.
Choosing a selection of nine books or authors, coming back to these works over a period of decades, reflecting on what the books had to say to a person at different times in their lives, relating to the authors' lives as well as pivotal moments in your own, is in itself an essay collection with dash of memoir I could get on board with, especially as the author is a competent and seemingly insightful writer.
The tricky part lies in what is chosen for close reading and personal reflection: I don't think there was a single book covered that I had an interest in reading upon hearing more about it. It's objectively interesting to see a shift in perception about characters, motivations, inner lives, author influences, especially as it relates to the reader's life, but there seems to be a large proportion of what my approaching-40 self now classifies as unnecessary drama in the telling. [And not for nothing, but the maddening character psychoanalyzed and prescribed with religious mania and rather clumsily alternately as frigid and asexual was not a fun reading experience.]
Speaking of fun reading experiences, if anyone knows of other non-fiction takes on re-reading, especially exploring the habit itself, I'd love to move from specifics of one person with a set of books, to either one person investigating the phenomena as a passion/proclivity among readers, and/or collating responses from many people about books they like to reread.
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About Vivian Gornick
is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed memoir
, named the best memoir of the past 50 years by the
in 2019; the essay collections
and
, both of which were nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and
, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She began her career as a staff writer for
in 1969, and her work has since appeared in
,
,
,
, and many other publications.
Other books by Vivian Gornick
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