bkelrod's review
reflective
slow-paced
1.75
it waxed and waned for me. i think i expected it to be too much like Eve Babitz and it didn’t have much of a chance from the start. sometimes it struck me, most of the time i resented it. maybe I just don’t like poetry, maybe I hate LA, maybe it’s not the right time. who knows.
pyrrhicspondee's review
5.0
I don't know why this was the book I confidently grabbed from the shelf, but it was the book I needed right now. I'm feeling very burned out and all I want is, like, time to myself to think. I want a life of the mind, even if that sounds super cheesy. Turns out reading someone else's document of the life of their mind is the next best thing to having time for introspection. Reading this made me feel like I was living alone in Berkeley again or in grad school again--that the days are full of nothing but time and your friends are always beautiful and your writing is paramount.
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