Reviews

The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

rekakovacs's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

casab's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

Very dense, took me months to finish it as I kept taking breaks in between chapters. Quite heavy, lots of thinking on current crisis (covid, climate), the occidental response to them, capitalism and identity as an immigrate woman. 

Some subjects made me push my reflections further, especially the whole part on potential motherhood in the 2020s. 

The author made me want to know her. Even though I found it hard to keep up at times, this was informative, honest and cathartic at times. 

bookmateriality's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

badger_badger's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

I struggled with this book at first, finding it simultaneously too academic and too poetic for me to understand, but as it went on I found myself enjoying it more and more. It's both uplifting in how it discusses hope and depressing in how it describes the fear and uncertainty that comes with future-planning in this current time. I'm left feeling a lot of complicated emotions now that it's over.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Death of parent

endraia's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

irenavukcevic's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

nastasiakal's review

reflective medium-paced

3.0

ktweeden's review

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

ada_chan's review

1.5

the thoughts were there but not fleshed out. some bits were hard to sit through (insufferable)