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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
It feels like the structure and style of this book managed to communicate the experience of chronic pain, or specifically the experience of wellness-seeking/relief-seeking really well. It captured the circularity of chasing relief from pain, then becoming more active physically with increased wellness, only for that increased activity to result in another bout of pain from which you're going to seek relief from.
Merged review:
It feels like the structure and style of this book managed to communicate the experience of chronic pain, or specifically the experience of wellness-seeking/relief-seeking really well. It captured the circularity of chasing relief from pain, then becoming more active physically with increased wellness, only for that increased activity to result in another bout of pain from which you're going to seek relief from.
Merged review:
It feels like the structure and style of this book managed to communicate the experience of chronic pain, or specifically the experience of wellness-seeking/relief-seeking really well. It captured the circularity of chasing relief from pain, then becoming more active physically with increased wellness, only for that increased activity to result in another bout of pain from which you're going to seek relief from.
A raw, beautiful, haunting, and flowing mix of diary entries, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The book chronicles the author's experience with chronic illness, pain, water, and the seemingly never-ending cycle between being unwell and (almost) well, and believed and questioned about the validity of one's disability. She includes the beautiful and the ugly. It's strange and hypnotic, but I'm into that kind of thing.
(Sidenote: it kind of angers me that my local library labeled this as fiction, instead of the biography/non-fiction that it is. Almost as if women telling their stories of pain and disability in this format isn't real enough for those categories. But maybe it's not that deep. I don't know).
Merged review:
A raw, beautiful, haunting, and flowing mix of diary entries, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The book chronicles the author's experience with chronic illness, pain, water, and the seemingly never-ending cycle between being unwell and (almost) well, and believed and questioned about the validity of one's disability. She includes the beautiful and the ugly. It's strange and hypnotic, but I'm into that kind of thing.
(Sidenote: it kind of angers me that my local library labeled this as fiction, instead of the biography/non-fiction that it is. Almost as if women telling their stories of pain and disability in this format isn't real enough for those categories. But maybe it's not that deep. I don't know).
(Sidenote: it kind of angers me that my local library labeled this as fiction, instead of the biography/non-fiction that it is. Almost as if women telling their stories of pain and disability in this format isn't real enough for those categories. But maybe it's not that deep. I don't know).
Merged review:
A raw, beautiful, haunting, and flowing mix of diary entries, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The book chronicles the author's experience with chronic illness, pain, water, and the seemingly never-ending cycle between being unwell and (almost) well, and believed and questioned about the validity of one's disability. She includes the beautiful and the ugly. It's strange and hypnotic, but I'm into that kind of thing.
(Sidenote: it kind of angers me that my local library labeled this as fiction, instead of the biography/non-fiction that it is. Almost as if women telling their stories of pain and disability in this format isn't real enough for those categories. But maybe it's not that deep. I don't know).
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism
reflective
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oh saint teresa! teresa, floating on your back in ecstasy. teresa, gargling clouds and holy water. teresa who wails, face crumbled in triangles. teresa, dressed in a wet-look wedding dress, damp hair hanging around her shoulder. saint teresa, refuser of bread.
Merged review:
oh saint teresa! teresa, floating on your back in ecstasy. teresa, gargling clouds and holy water. teresa who wails, face crumbled in triangles. teresa, dressed in a wet-look wedding dress, damp hair hanging around her shoulder. saint teresa, refuser of bread.
Merged review:
oh saint teresa! teresa, floating on your back in ecstasy. teresa, gargling clouds and holy water. teresa who wails, face crumbled in triangles. teresa, dressed in a wet-look wedding dress, damp hair hanging around her shoulder. saint teresa, refuser of bread.
challenging
informative
reflective
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
relaxing
tense
fast-paced
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced