Reviews

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

phil_abernethy's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.25

sewfrench's review against another edition

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 against another edition

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 against another edition

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 against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective

4.0

glock_shmee's review against another edition

5.0

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

emilybilodeau's review against another edition

“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

alexsmallwood's review against another edition

4.0

good read, hard to follow. probably meant for someone who is more patient than i am.