Contemplative and mesmerizing, Recollections of My Nonexistence thoughtfully charts the famous essayist’s coming of age as a thinker, activist, and writer. In lucid prose Solnit recounts how, in her...
Solnit is an author I have meant to read for quite a while. I have another book of hers somewhere around here, that I received in one of my book boxes. I, now regret waited so long as she is a fabulou...
One of the iconic stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses is the terrible tale of Philomela, raped by her brother-in-law and then silenced by him hacking out her tongue so that she can't accuse him or speak o...
Readers like me who, over Rebecca Solnit’s thirty years of writing, have fallen in love with her seismic, world-shifting essays will not be disappointed in this memoir, her first longform writing in...
Yes, Rebecca Solnit is a radical feminist, this book, 'a memoir', confirms that once again. At first I found it strange that someone of barely 60 years old writes a kind of memoir. Apparently, she fel...
This book was...fine. I enjoy reading Solnit's essays, so I was looking forward to reading her memoir, thinking that I would actually learn a bit more about her. This was very much focused on Solnit f...
One does not review Solnit, one imbibes her wisdom and words and feels grateful. ...
4.5 rounded downWhen I heard Rebecca Solnit was publishing a memoir this year it quickly became one of my most anticipated releases of 2020 - having enjoyed a number of her previous collections (inclu...
My, my, my .... that was an exquisite, though-provoking, sublime, powerful book.Sure, it's a memoir, but it's much more. Solnit recollects a writer's life, and the history, the journey, the articulati...
Absolutely gorgeous, love Solnit! Will definitely revisit this one again.🖤“It was a lovely fortune to be handed by a stranger, and I took it, and with it the sense that who I was meant to be was ...