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A review by blooperreelz894
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
This book was super slow but it was meant to be. I got a deeper dive into art history and expressionism than I expected when I picked it up.
The book has a lot of wonderful anecdotes about how subtly loneliness takes over and the feelings of guilt, irrelevance and shame that accompanies it. I loved the intersectionality of people and timelines the author explored while describing loneliness to prove how enduring this feeling has been throughout human history.
The book has a lot of wonderful anecdotes about how subtly loneliness takes over and the feelings of guilt, irrelevance and shame that accompanies it. I loved the intersectionality of people and timelines the author explored while describing loneliness to prove how enduring this feeling has been throughout human history.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content