booksinmyhouse

Genre: Memoir
How it got in my house: I bought it last week--I could not resist the local bookstore sale
Do I recommend it: YES

So a while ago on this here internet, I saw a prompt going around asking, to paraphrase, "what book can you not recommend to other people because you love it so much?" And this question baffled me. In the intervening years, I've occasionally thought about it and been baffled once more. I always want more people to read my favorite books! I would like to mandate that everyone read Braiding Sweetgrass, for example. Why would you read a book, love it, and hesitate to recommend it?

I get it now.

I loved this book. I don't know how Emezi can write like that--divine power?--but WOW, the things they can do with words! The book was a breathtaking combination of vivid immersion into experiences I've never had and eye-opening connection. It's hard to articulate how much I loved the more-than-human perspective. And because it's that more-than-human perspective I loved, maybe that's why I'm wary of sharing it with other people. I am not good at being vulnerable, and this book is so vulnerable. I loved what it had to say about humanity, divinity, writing, ambition, magic...and I am not good at talking about many of those things myself. But perhaps I can get better at it.

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Heavy, heavy content warnings on the book  for graphic descriptions of suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts, gore, and reference to rape and abuse.

Lifetime blog tally:
Number of books read: 2
Net change in unread books in my house: +3