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Chelsea Girls
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bookshelves: 1990-s, catch-up, queer-lit, queer-lives, 20th-century-women, memoir-and-autobiography, read-in-2022, to-reread
Dec 12, 2022
bookshelves: 1990-s, catch-up, queer-lit, queer-lives, 20th-century-women, memoir-and-autobiography, read-in-2022, to-reread
Never was able to pinpoint exactly why this didn't quite worked for me beyond brilliant brief flashes & intermittent stretches; reaching the end I finally started feeling more on its wavelength... but even then it just never really gelled for me. To be clear I suspect this is more a commentary about me than the book itself, & even before finishing was acknowledging I will need to give this another go someday. It happens!
"You can’t force a story that doesn’t want to be told."
"You can’t force a story that doesn’t want to be told."
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Reading Progress
July 14, 2015
– Shelved
July 14, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
July 14, 2015
– Shelved as:
1990-s
September 30, 2021
– Shelved as:
catch-up
September 30, 2021
– Shelved as:
queer-lives
September 30, 2021
– Shelved as:
queer-lit
Started Reading
February, 2022
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Finished Reading
December 12, 2022
– Shelved as:
20th-century-women
December 12, 2022
– Shelved as:
memoir-and-autobiography
December 12, 2022
– Shelved as:
read-in-2022
June 15, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-reread
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Dec 24, 2022 06:32AM
Aw, this is definitely a favorite of mine. I get not being in sync with her stream-of-consciousness or finding it annoying, but she is just so goddam funny!! I found the way she describes things and situations hilarious. My favorite chapter is the one centered on all the money borrowing in her circle of poor artist friends.
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I know, I felt bad giving the rating/review I did, because I really, really wanted to like this even more than I did. Usually when I'm struggling to get on a wavelength with a text I'll set it aside & wait for another time, & I really should should have done that here, but I kept hoping I'd find it but just never did. The chapter about the money borrowing was definitely my favorite too! I am looking forward to giving this another look in the future, & hopefully it'll click then.
Michael wrote: "Aw, this is definitely a favorite of mine. I get not being in sync with her stream-of-consciousness or finding it annoying, but she is just so goddam funny!! I found the way she describes things and situations hilarious. My favorite chapter is the one centered on all the money borrowing in her circle of poor artist friends."
