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Relish by Lucy Knisley
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did not like it
bookshelves: graphic-novel-comics-manga, bir-2018

This book is the epitome of white privilege living in a bourgeois bubble of gentrification.

I love to read memoirs because you get to learn about a person's life experience, but also the lessons they have learned and how the events in their life shaped their world view. This graphic novel was a woman's incredibly privlidged existance with no real message and not really grounded in most people's reality. No matter how much you insist you were a poor student and your parents were poor artists, traveling around the world and eating fine cuisine is not the life of a poor person. (not to mention that all fat people are brainwashed sheep willing to eat trash because they aren't cultured enough to value a $50 block of cheese like her enlightened parents, ick).

This memoir ultimately reminds me of a hipster cafe with exposed brick walls, booths made from reclaimed wood, and serves you organic kale water inflused with lavender from miss-matched mason jars. It tries so hard to convince you that it's "authentic" you leave feeling the exact opposite.
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Reading Progress

October 5, 2015 – Shelved
October 5, 2015 – Shelved as: to-read
March 16, 2018 – Shelved as: graphic-novel-comics-manga
April 10, 2018 – Started Reading
April 10, 2018 – Shelved as: bir-2018
April 10, 2018 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Landon (new)

Landon I'll be avoiding this like the plague


Amanda Landon wrote: "I'll be avoiding this like the plague"

Yeah, it's very Eat, Pray, Love. Not really worth the time to read it.


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