How Should a Person Be?
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846557545 (1846557542)
Publish date: January 24th 2013
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Pages no: 306
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Art,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Womens,
Canada
How does one begin talking about this book? I had remembered on its release something of a battle along gender lines; there were men who thought it unbecoming and women who found it brilliant. It seemed appropriate to read something dangerous in the year of #ReadWomen2014, and Sheila Heti delivers s...
I've never seen Girls, that TV show everybody seems terribly keen on, but from time to time I read articles criticising it for being about Privileged White Girls. How Should A Person Be? made me think of every criticism I've ever read levelled at that TV show which I haven't seen. I didn't like it. ...
Continuing from last week, where I reviewed the subpar SAD DESK SALAD by Jessica Grose, I’m just now reviewing HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? by Sheila Heti. It’s in the same vein of book – hipster fiction about twentysomethings who have lost their way in life before their lives have even really begun. (No...
I'm not revealing anything or plot busting here... As usual, I'll be including 'too much' of myself in my writing, and for that I have no remorse.For someone like myself, coming across an 'in the news' novel titled "How Should A Person Be?" is like looking in the mirror and seeing someone look back....
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