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warroleggo's review
2.5
Like a gentle sentimental melody, Now Go uses approachable language to describe how grief approaches, subsumes and strangles. As Smith navigates grief through the child-like yet ahead-of-its-time allusions in Studio Ghibli's watercolour animations, he draws on the loss of childhood, the brutal assertions of capitalism and our society's drive to the collapse of nature. These topics are close to heart and I can safely say that Smith helped articulate and shape threads of thoughts I have entertained.
lokyan_reads's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
This is so beautifully written and heartfelt. Everyone can benefit from this emotional and raw discussion of grief in all it's forms
glennie's review
2.0
The prose were often nice, and very easy to read. This book at times felt self indulgent and overly biographical for someone who did not have a close relationship with personal grief. I love the studio Ghibli movies, so that helps a lot, but I didn’t really enjoy a white man who had lost his grandparents, explaining mansplaining cultural and environmental loss to me. Most of his analysis was quite obvious and there wasn’t a lot new there.
“In a way it doesn’t really matter if the world - in whatever form that takes - ever received that letter. It is the active writing, which is the act of love.”
“In a way it doesn’t really matter if the world - in whatever form that takes - ever received that letter. It is the active writing, which is the act of love.”
esthersucksatlife's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
"Most of us will live, but all of us will die"
theresa_timber's review
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.” - Princess Mononoke