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A review by brandysith
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by Stephanie LaCava
4.0
If only we could give half stars, I want to rate this as a 3.5.
LaCava reminded me of myself a bit as a child and teen. Being a bit odd, the fascination with collecting things. The writing style is beautiful, but for a memoir, it's very disjointed. It starts strong, but there isn't a rhyme or reason to the massive time jumps. There are certain areas that I think she should have expanded upon (like her treatment after her mental breakdown) and towards the end, she's not very clear why she is going back and forth between Paris and New York again.
I had very mixed feelings about the pictures and footnotes. While I enjoyed them, they interrupted the flow of reading. Maybe they could have been bettered served at the end of the book, after the epilogue.
LaCava reminded me of myself a bit as a child and teen. Being a bit odd, the fascination with collecting things. The writing style is beautiful, but for a memoir, it's very disjointed. It starts strong, but there isn't a rhyme or reason to the massive time jumps. There are certain areas that I think she should have expanded upon (like her treatment after her mental breakdown) and towards the end, she's not very clear why she is going back and forth between Paris and New York again.
I had very mixed feelings about the pictures and footnotes. While I enjoyed them, they interrupted the flow of reading. Maybe they could have been bettered served at the end of the book, after the epilogue.