raveller wants to read A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New …
I really wanted to like this and I do like the topic and the author's voice. Intuition is a thing that operates in many people's lives unspoken because it's put in so much doubt. And the core question of the book is so useful: is it intuition or anxiety?
The main problem is the format. By trying to be mainstream and fill more than half the book with scientific interviews, Greenwood sidelines her own most interesting insights and experiences with psychics. She even says so in the end, that she's swamped her own voice checking it against others. I wish the book was more focused on stories about intuition and the role it plays in people's lives, with a lot of the science and caveats as footnotes instead of 2/3 of the book.
Still, by reading this i did get help with the core question--is it intuition or anxiety?--and I've …
