A bedtime sstory for adults analysis roxanne gay

One of my goals for is to read more nonfiction.

Finding delight.

In my opinion, a good book both entertains and teaches. Gay addresses every aspect of her life that I might have had a question about given the premise, and she does so in an intelligent and considerate way. She talks about diets and eating disorders, the clothing industry, cooking shows, health affects, gyms and trainers, travel, restaurants, etc.

Each chapter feels like its own mini essay. As a writer, armed with words, I can do anything, but when I have to take my body out into the world, courage fails me. This is a book about struggling, about being in the middle of a journey rather than the end. Determination, though, has not gotten me very far.

We should not take up space. We should be seen and not heard, and if we are seen, we should be pleasing to men, acceptable to society. Sometimes it even works wonderfully in this book. But there were also chapters that began in such a way that for an entire paragraph or two I had the impression that I had already read those exact words, that exact phrasing.

A couple of times I even started a chapter wondering if there had been some sort of editorial mistake and the same chapter had somehow been included twice. This is by no means a long or unbearable memoir; I read the entire book in three sittings, and it only took more than two because I was interrupted.

But with such powerful content, I think a more succinct style could have fit this book even better than constant repetitions. At least not any time soon. But I know different readers have different tastes, and the fact that the only issue I had with this book was such a stylistic one explains to me why this book has been so well-received.

It is difficult. For me, it is difficult to believe I matter and I deserve nice things and I deserve to be around nice people. My reaction: 4 out of 5 a bedtime sstory for adults analysis roxanne gay. Fikrya newer Zevin novel. About the Book: A. Fikry has a lot to be upset about, and he is.

The beloved wife who convinced him to leave school and open a bookshop with her in a hard-to-reach town died in a car accident one night after an author event, leaving A. He turns snobby and rude, and sometimes drunk. The Storied Life is a bookish book, a tale about a bookseller who reads and talks about books and buys and sells books and lives and breathes books.

There are title drops and references, discussions of genres and writing techniques and reader habits. There are thefts and losses and deaths, lies and missed opportunities. There are some great moments too, of course— weddings and babies and great books and wins.

But for me, there were not enough of the good moments to outweigh the sad. As Fikry notes. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three. And so it does, metaphorically speaking.