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I Came All This Way to Meet You: A Memoir by Jami Attenberg
4 reviews
skeltzer's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
I agree with the folks who said this was good on a sentence level. She wrote some lovely, reflective sentences. But I found myself quite bored with this book. It was fine.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide attempt
Minor: Fatphobia
deedireads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
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First, big thanks to Libro.fm and Harper Audio for the audio review copy of this book! I’d been looking forward to it for a while, because I’m a big fan of Jami Attenberg’s substack newsletter, “Craft Talk,” and her annual 1000 Words of Summer write-a-thon.
I Came All This Way to Meet You is one of my favorite kinds of memoirs: about an ordinary life, made meaningful in the details. There’s no denying that Attenberg is a great writer of words, and it shows here. The book is honest, funny, heartfelt, sincere, and very generous.
I will say that the narration style of the audiobook wasn’t my favorite. (She did not read it herself, FYI.) Some people may prefer it; I think it was meant to be a more expressive style. But for me, I think the intonation distracted a bit from what were, underneath, really resonant and hard-hitting sentences. I may decide to reread a print copy in the future. But the book itself is excellent enough that I really enjoyed it anyway.
Thank you, Jami, for sharing this gift with us.
First, big thanks to Libro.fm and Harper Audio for the audio review copy of this book! I’d been looking forward to it for a while, because I’m a big fan of Jami Attenberg’s substack newsletter, “Craft Talk,” and her annual 1000 Words of Summer write-a-thon.
I Came All This Way to Meet You is one of my favorite kinds of memoirs: about an ordinary life, made meaningful in the details. There’s no denying that Attenberg is a great writer of words, and it shows here. The book is honest, funny, heartfelt, sincere, and very generous.
I will say that the narration style of the audiobook wasn’t my favorite. (She did not read it herself, FYI.) Some people may prefer it; I think it was meant to be a more expressive style. But for me, I think the intonation distracted a bit from what were, underneath, really resonant and hard-hitting sentences. I may decide to reread a print copy in the future. But the book itself is excellent enough that I really enjoyed it anyway.
Thank you, Jami, for sharing this gift with us.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use and Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Suicide attempt
emzireads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, and Alcohol
Minor: Suicide attempt
caseythereader's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Thanks to Ecco Books and Libro FM for the free advance copy of this book.
- I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU is less a recounting of Attenberg's life, and more a consideration of how she got here and how she became the person she is today - someone fully devoted to art and life and the joy of community.
- I appreciated the exploration of the mental effects of coming up in the art and literature world as a woman, and particularly a woman mostly doing it on her own. She looks at both the joys of going solo and choosing your own path, and the pitfalls and scary moments.
- I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU is less a recounting of Attenberg's life, and more a consideration of how she got here and how she became the person she is today - someone fully devoted to art and life and the joy of community.
- I appreciated the exploration of the mental effects of coming up in the art and literature world as a woman, and particularly a woman mostly doing it on her own. She looks at both the joys of going solo and choosing your own path, and the pitfalls and scary moments.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail