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kjboldon's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
An impressionistic gathering of essays and notes from 1917 Russian. Marina is sharp and funny even when she is starving. My lack of historical knowledge means I missed a bunch, but these NYRB editions of women during wartime are fascinating and moving.
One of the rare instances where I recommend reading the Introduction not avoiding it till after finishing the book itself, since what follows is so discursive and unplotted that getting the historical context would have helped me appreciate it more.
One of the rare instances where I recommend reading the Introduction not avoiding it till after finishing the book itself, since what follows is so discursive and unplotted that getting the historical context would have helped me appreciate it more.
rchiuminatto's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
inspiring
slow-paced
spacestationtrustfund's review
3.0
Everyday life is a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.I have a very complicated relationship with published diaries.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition
3.0
While there is some repetition in the entries, there is some lovely writing here. I think I would have gotten more out of it had I read her poetry, but I have not. Now, however, I want to.
alexlanz's review
I won't read an anti-communist memoir unless the prose is this kind of next level good.
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