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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is stunningly honest, emotionally rich, and humorous. Kate Carrol de Gutes faces difficult truths about her past, present, and future thoughtfully and compassionately. I found myself reading and rereading sections to figure out how she delves into her own memories and lived experience with such exactness and clarity. I recommend this book highly. Read it to understand what it is like to live through loss, finding healing in moments along the way. Read it to discover the writer's rich emotional landscape that may just broaden your own. Read it to feel less alone in the world. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons from the Best and Worst Year of My Life is the new collection of essays from award-winning writer Kate Carroll de Gutes. In 2012, Kate Carroll de Gutes found herself at a rest stop "ruined with anxiety. And when I say ruined, I mean in a car, in hundred-degree weather, with all the windows rolled up, sobbing and crouched in the passenger's seat rocking and waiting for the Ativan to take effect. I posted on Facebook, 'Hello, Redding. Dear gods yer hot.' A funny post that let my family and friends know where I was, but not how I was." De Gutes didn't yet understand how insidious social media had become - all of it curated to show a wonderful life, regardless of what was really occurring. But when her editor, her best friend, and her mother all died within ten months of each other, de Gutes could no longer keep up the charade. She began The Authenticity Experiment as a 30-day challenge, wondering if she could be more honest about her days. She used social media as her new back fence, a place where she could stand and talk to her "neighbors" about the good and bad. The essays resonated with a wide audience, so de Gutes kept writing, chronicling the dark and the light, and putting it out there for everyone to see. -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I didn't think this book was as good, the essays can be uneven. But there are some real gems in here, honest and vulnerable. This one is from "Death is Like This"
"Death is like this: it's exhausting is what it is. It's sitting at your kitchen table at 6:30 am, because you can't sleep. Your middle sister, Sue, is propped up on one elbow, sprawled across your Ikea sleeper sofa, her makeup from the day before streaked across her cheeks, skin showing through in spots where her CPAP mask rubbed off the carefully layer foundation of vitamin C serum, BB cream, Bare Minerals and blush. Eyes clumpy with mascara as much from lack of sleep as from crying all the way to your house after you left your mother unconscious at the care facility.
Death is like this: two sisters drinking a pot of coffee at 6:30 in the morning, and one saying to the other, "Kate, we've got to get $15,000 out of mom's checking account before the Feds notify the bank that she's dead." ( )