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Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

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imjumokay's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I feel this has made me reflect on my life and given me hope that I'll also find equilibrium and the system that affirms my self.

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lunabbly's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Wow. I genuinely feel fucked up.

At first glance a lot of the passages look like word vomit, making grand leaps from one thought to the next. But truly it is gorgeous writing. It is beautiful, chaotic, terrifying reflections of heartache, love, romance, and self torture. Felix also interweaves her bipolar diagnosis and discovery -- one that revolved around her childhood trauma of CSA, as well as her mother not quite understanding on behalf of Camonghne but in the ways that mothers can and want to.

The descriptions of loving X are so vivid. It is so sweet. So gentle. But the chaotic falling out, the cheating, the absence, the abortion that Camonghne gets without telling him which results in his temper tantrum and distance, it is all so absorbing. It's so relatable. We've all been in those relationships where we loved someone so deeply and couldn't give our full selves to this person. Couldn't be 100% vulnerable, couldn't commit the way this person wanted us to. We had different dreams at the end of the day. Even though we loved this person. Even though this person loved us endlessly, unconditionally and it made us feel so good about being loved.

The heartache was so palpable I cried multiple times.

... how I let his love be my field of discovery, the green of his want tortured with the marks of my prancing, how I let self-obsession be an acid that corrodes the denim of a big heavy heart.

Thank you Camonghne for this beautiful memoir of the greatest heartbreak. Thank you for treating yourself with much kindness and accountability for your actions. I so appreciated every word of this memoir.

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vainnerj's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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alltyedup's review

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3.5

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csmoke85's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced

5.0

Beautifully written, with a unique writing style that’s reads as smoothly as poetry.

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andreaimc4's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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bookishbrenbren's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

I really liked it but it just went so fast, I feel like I need to read it again and again before I can really ~ understand ~ it. The audiobook is really well done too, narrated by the author, highly recommend although the poems might be more easily understood with the book version. It's interesting that the author chose to center the story on the supposed love story when that was really a minor note to the book, which was about her life as a whole. I also don't know how we're meant to feel about this man bc we don't know him long enough to love him or b e invested in her love for him as much as I feel like she was / wanted to convey?

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