Reviews

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

_ali_lacey44's review against another edition

3.0

3.5 ⭐️ a year told between reality and a dream. Excerpts from Patti Smith from 2016 - 2020 and how life balances on the way an individual perceives the world. Surrealistic ideas on getting older and the future ahead.

phil_abernethy's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.25

sewfrench's review

2.0

“The trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up.”

tobeeornottobee's review against another edition

4.0

never once while reading did i feel like i fully knew what was happening, like my feet were not very firmly rooted to the ground at all. a dream you don’t wake up from, or rather, you continue to think you’ve woken up just to find yourself in another dream entirely. 

shellycbuchanan's review

5.0

Mesmerizing memoir of one year one and off the road searching for reckoning with loss, meaning, and the coming Trump era. The "A Kind of Epilogue" reads for me as a devastating set-piece that both encapsulates streams of thinking within the memoir and also stands on its own poetic prose.

brnnbrn's review

4.0

4.5/5

Liminal space in novel form. A beautiful and strange meditation on life and death.

lilykatz_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.5

wood_pigeon's review

emotional mysterious reflective

4.0

glock_shmee's review

5.0

So good I couldn’t put it down for 8 hours until it was done :’)

emilybilodeau's review

“The waitress was pretty but had a piece of skin hanging from her lip. I couldn't stop staring at it. In my mind, it got bigger and heavier, then detached and plopped into an imagined bowl of steaming broth that widened, forming a bubbling pool, where an imitation of life emerged. I shook my head. The things that transport us can be so random.”

I love Patti