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This Is Running For Your Life: Essays (2013)

by Michelle Orange(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374533326 (ISBN13: 9780374533328)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

FSG Originals

review 1: I grabbed this on a whim based on a brief reference to "manic pixie dream girls" which is a phrase that has been delighting me since Cary's last movie night, and found myself absolutely encapsulated in many bits and pieces of these essays. "That's ME!" I kept exclaiming. I do that! I feel that! I contemplate that! And then, well, no.... I never did or felt or contemplated some of the other things in here. Nevertheless, I loved recognizing myself and I also found the rest of it valuable. I am haunted still by her statement that age 28 to age 42 is one stage in which you feel all-the-same-age and then you don't. I'm about to be 41, you guys. It's almost over, this late-youth stage. This I'm-not-REALLY-an-adult,right? stage. I am not sure, yet, if it's true. Inte... moreresting topics abound in this collection of essays. Read it!
review 2: It's been a while since I've come across a book as emotionally and intellectually engaging as this one, and rather saddened (like with Susan Sontag or Rebecca Solnit) that I didn't get to spend more time living in Michelle Orange's cranium. The collection isn't flawless as there are a couple of essays that fall a bit short in that they could have gone farther in terms of analysis and drawing of parallels along with the odd heavy-handed passage, but so much of the book is outstanding in how it marries the personal with the insightful both in the discussion of nostalgia and living and engaging with popcultured and increasingly technological world. less

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