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A review by ameliasbooks
Earthed by Rebecca Schiller
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
3.0
Parts of this book I found interesting, but other parts went off on tangents, that I couldn't really connect to. No judgement on this, it makes totally sense considering the author's ADHD and I am sure it was really important to her to use these imagines stories as a vehicle. But I wanted more of her personal journey and less of these digressions or the nature stuff.
In the acknowledgements she also thanks her editor to allow her to let loose in that way, but I still think that this book would have benefitted from a better editing. Of course a memoir is not a novel, but if it doesn't stay a manuscript in a drawer, but becomes a published book, seeking an audience, parts that aren't necessarily needed, should still be reviewed more deeply. So overall this book left me less engaged, than I expected it to make me.
In the acknowledgements she also thanks her editor to allow her to let loose in that way, but I still think that this book would have benefitted from a better editing. Of course a memoir is not a novel, but if it doesn't stay a manuscript in a drawer, but becomes a published book, seeking an audience, parts that aren't necessarily needed, should still be reviewed more deeply. So overall this book left me less engaged, than I expected it to make me.