"you grow up thinking that somebody who loves you should automatically know how to care for you, and vice versa. that to love is to understand, and to understand is to know exactly how to act. but so much gets lost between people. we don't even know how to best care for ourselves a lot of the time, so how could we expect to do it so effortlessly for others? "
pub: 2018
pages: 242
read: jan 11 to feb13, 2022
book: 6 in 2022
THOUGHTS
I loved this book. ❤️
I loved this book. ❤️
i love this book because it taught me that maybe i could have loved essay books all along, that just maybe i was reading them wrong (for me) all along. i kept trying to speed race through them instead of letting each essay do what it needed to do in order for me to understand it as best as possible.
i appreciated a lot of what she was trying to say through her essays and while in the beginning i was kind over the whole boyfriends crap (this is where i learned to put the book down, cool down and come back to it whenever i was ready again) for me this one ends pretty strong.
i love the way she brings her sister into this story. the way she talks about her mother and the way she makes them all feel at home no matter the length of stay. and the chapter about her dad! ahh! i was crying by the end of it. I couldn't stand it! i was so happy that she gets to have parents that show up for her the way that hers have. her writing about her father made me sooooo happy for her that she's had that support all along. How tight is that?
"did you know that your parents are also people? i did not."
phew. i think if a book can make you feel all that, its a good book no? *nervous laughter*
anyway, im glad i accidentally came across Alanna as i was googling (and tbh mad girl crushing) on Aya Cash, im glad i got it from my library only to buy it later to read it even later than that. i think this book came into my life at just the perfect moment; books will call you when they're ready to let you in. <3
timing is everything.
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