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A review by brogan7
Knot Body by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
challenging
slow-paced
3.5
You don't have to like every part of a book to get something out of it, but you have to like a book enough to keep reading it to get to the really good parts.
This book could have used a fiercer editor. The most interesting part was "Self prescribed bed rest," pp. 79-96, and I almost didn't get there.
Unfortunately, a lot of the writing was precious, capitalizing on the attraction of identity politics...their "Dear friends, lovers and in-betweens" were frequently boring, self-focussed and self-centered.
But then, this part, about the struggle, about chronic pain, about marginalization and the struggle to get information about one's specific syndrome, specific experience....it's beautiful and real and political and important.
This book could have used a fiercer editor. The most interesting part was "Self prescribed bed rest," pp. 79-96, and I almost didn't get there.
Unfortunately, a lot of the writing was precious, capitalizing on the attraction of identity politics...their "Dear friends, lovers and in-betweens" were frequently boring, self-focussed and self-centered.
But then, this part, about the struggle, about chronic pain, about marginalization and the struggle to get information about one's specific syndrome, specific experience....it's beautiful and real and political and important.