A review by sylvia_flora
The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully
5.0
Boully's book is a fantastic formal narrative of footnotes with esoteric post-modern references and other MFA-worthy things.
Her writing exceeds what you might see online, so don't take Boully's speaker as being interested in click-bait. The reader gets no evidence of the main character of this book except through the speaker in the footnotes.
The reader gets, essentially, the body, the outlines, of some person, but every section leaves much interpretation up to the reader, and her or his familiarity with the topics being discussed. It's wordy at times.
That being said, it's good for short reading sessions...and the physical book is fertile ground for literally drawing connections between narrative notes.
Writers should read this if they haven't already.
Her writing exceeds what you might see online, so don't take Boully's speaker as being interested in click-bait. The reader gets no evidence of the main character of this book except through the speaker in the footnotes.
The reader gets, essentially, the body, the outlines, of some person, but every section leaves much interpretation up to the reader, and her or his familiarity with the topics being discussed. It's wordy at times.
That being said, it's good for short reading sessions...and the physical book is fertile ground for literally drawing connections between narrative notes.
Writers should read this if they haven't already.