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casab's review against another edition
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 immigrant 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, this was informative, honest and cathartic at times.
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, this was informative, honest and cathartic at times.
bookmateriality's review against another edition
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
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Death of parent
endraia's review against another edition
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
bibliocyclist's review against another edition
3.0
Do you know your place? Do you know it “well enough to see it change”? Is it the case that, “eso aquí es así,” and does it have to be that way? If you, too, detect the earth’s alarm and feel emergency within your bones, check out The Nerves and Their Endings: Essays on Crisis and Response by Swedish-Colombian-British writer and activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson. What happens when your Birth Strike group splinters between those who practice non-parenthood on behalf of our planet and those who do so for the sake of the unborn? Does climate action translate from the country of one parent to that of the other, and what if you move to a third? How do you respond to the caller who latches onto your accent and asks how far you are from “home”? Listen to your nerves, make your place your own, and learn from what each has to say.
ada_chan's review against another edition
1.5
the thoughts were there but not fleshed out. some bits were hard to sit through (insufferable)