ahz_art

While there are some great fragments in this book--a meditation on the color blue in the author's life--I feel slightly unsatisfied with the end results. The more personal chapters (or fragments--there are over 200 of them) are the most revealing and the best--stuff about lovers, a paralyzed friend, her past--but I feel like she detracts from those parts with textbooky quotes and name-dropping. It seems like she even admits a few times a kind of fear about revealing too much personal stuff. But that's WHAT I WANT! I want Nelson to write like a person and not a professor. But I know a lot of people loooove this book and this opinion is just my bias.

2020-08-18 07:33