A review by cazmcdo
I Love the Bones of You: My Life, My Family, My Father by Christopher Eccleston
4.0
It is being given a 4, but it's more like a 4.5. Beautiful and heartfelt, if a little repetitive in places.
I don't think Christopher Eccleston is a born writer. But, as he says of his acting, he put his heart and soul into this book, he worked so hard and has this excellent work to show for it. Unlike a lot of working class men, and a lot of working class men of his era (I mention no names) he shows a grasp of the oppressions he had to face in his life and in how they relate to the oppressions of other people and how that is shaped by wider society. He's openly critical of these influences on society. He talks of his mental health with such eloquence that I've never seen in someone of his background. He owns his past, and his mistakes. He owns his present, how he thinks his future will be. He owns his attitude to intersectional feminist principles which would see him laughed out of my local Labour Club, but which are important and necessary for the kind of societal improvement he wants to see.
Sometimes he repeated himself, and it didn't always seem like the kind of purposeful repetition used to drive home a point, which is what loses him that half a point, or the full star on Goodreads because they don't seem to allow half stars.
Simply, it was FANTASTIC.
I don't think Christopher Eccleston is a born writer. But, as he says of his acting, he put his heart and soul into this book, he worked so hard and has this excellent work to show for it. Unlike a lot of working class men, and a lot of working class men of his era (I mention no names) he shows a grasp of the oppressions he had to face in his life and in how they relate to the oppressions of other people and how that is shaped by wider society. He's openly critical of these influences on society. He talks of his mental health with such eloquence that I've never seen in someone of his background. He owns his past, and his mistakes. He owns his present, how he thinks his future will be. He owns his attitude to intersectional feminist principles which would see him laughed out of my local Labour Club, but which are important and necessary for the kind of societal improvement he wants to see.
Sometimes he repeated himself, and it didn't always seem like the kind of purposeful repetition used to drive home a point, which is what loses him that half a point, or the full star on Goodreads because they don't seem to allow half stars.
Simply, it was FANTASTIC.