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A review by marmaelade
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
4.0
This book took me a while to read--I'm talking months. You need to sit down and give some undivided attention to it to get all the details and understand what is happening. Despite that, I found it thought-provoking, and the way that Ozeki describes Benny's experience with mental illness and uses The Book as a narrative device was very clever.
I have yet to read a book by Ozeki that I would not recommend.
The only thing that's keeping me from giving this a 5/5 star is the density of it, but just because about midway, the book felt like more of a chore to read to make sure I wouldn't forget about it among the other books I've been reading. However I do also think that this is partially my fault because I was not being consistent with the time I was giving this book.
I have yet to read a book by Ozeki that I would not recommend.
The only thing that's keeping me from giving this a 5/5 star is the density of it, but just because about midway, the book felt like more of a chore to read to make sure I wouldn't forget about it among the other books I've been reading. However I do also think that this is partially my fault because I was not being consistent with the time I was giving this book.