BOOK REVIEWThank you so much @penguinrandomhouse for sending this free copy of Zadie Smith’s Intim
BOOK REVIEW Thank you so much @penguinrandomhouse for sending this free copy of Zadie Smith’s Intimations my way! Swing Time was the first Zadie Smith novel I read and also happened to be the very first book I received from a publisher. I didn’t enjoy Swing Time at all, where I found it to be beautifully written, I was also extremely bored by it. However, I have still been interested in reading more of her work. I finished this one today. Intimations is a collection of Smith’s short personal essays written at the inception of the quarantine. Permeated throughout each essay is Smith’s deeply softhearted, funny and emotional introspection as she’s processing life’s foundational and existential questions. Reading her essays made me reflect on my own ebb and flow in our current climate. In the beginning of quarantine I was thriving. I had no problem sitting with myself, basking in the little things and processing my feelings. Where others complained of boredom, I saw the opportunity to self improve; to try to grow in some area or in some way. Then when the civil unrest began, that was interrupted. It caused me to lose sight of the little things so I began to feel a heaviness - a weight that both belonged and didn’t belong to me and so I HAD to be MORE intentional about my time, my energy and my peace. This one is all of 97 pages. I didn’t find these collection of essays “deeply” moving but I like that they made me reflect on my own sense of self & how I’ve processed my feelings during these unorthodox times. (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1_CrWHsCc/?igshid=117mil38qj2xh -- source link