Life As We Know It : A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com

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Summary: ...and Life As I Know It, too
Review: There is something beautifully eerie about the accuracy with which "Life As We Know It" depicts the rhythm of existence and its inherent jarring; one emerges from reading with the sense of having lived more years than chronologically accurate, or at least of having gained the experiential wisdom that would come with those years. This "collection of personal essays" is indeed personal; I had to bind the thing with a rubber band after reading it (something I've never done to a book before), as if it were my own raw material to be shared only when I'd come to terms with its truths.
The "Life" section at Salon.com- the source of this collection- claims some of the finest essayists of the genre, as this small volume demonstrates. Inciting outrageous laughter as well as speechless indignation, "Life As We Know It" elucidates some of the most joyful and most painful, rarely shared yet universally occurring experiences. These stories are for anyone to claim; you will feel that you own some of them. As for the stories you hold: you just might learn to claim more of those, too.

Rating:
Summary: ...and Life As I Know It, too
Review: There is something beautifully eerie about the accuracy with which "Life As We Know It" depicts the rhythm of existence and its inherent jarring; one emerges from reading with the sense of having lived more years than chronologically accurate, or at least of having gained the experiential wisdom that would come with those years. This "collection of personal essays" is indeed personal; I had to bind the thing with a rubber band after reading it (something I've never done to a book before), as if it were my own raw material to be shared only when I'd come to terms with its truths.
The "Life" section at Salon.com- the source of this collection- claims some of the finest essayists of the genre, as this small volume demonstrates. Inciting outrageous laughter as well as speechless indignation, "Life As We Know It" elucidates some of the most joyful and most painful, rarely shared yet universally occurring experiences. These stories are for anyone to claim; you will feel that you own some of them. As for the stories you hold: you just might learn to claim more of those, too.