Year of the Monkey
Ratings14
Average rating3.8
“One cannot approximate truth, add nor take away, for there is no one on earth like the true shepherd and there is nothing in heaven like the suffering of real life.”
“Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow.”
I read [b:Just Kids 341879 Just Kids Patti Smith https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1259762407l/341879.SY75.jpg 332242] and loved it despite being only a very casual fan of Patti Smith previously; her writing was so lovely and the story so compelling that it didn't matter so much to me that I didn't know all of the musical/artistic references she was making.That was...less the case here. It's an odd, dreamlike memoir that literally includes a lot of recaps of her dreams woven in and out of reality. On the sentence level it's lovely and there are some beautiful reflections on life and mortality, but my overall reaction to reading this was ¯_(ツ)_/¯
More fiction-ish than her past books, with passages that might be dreams or might be real life. Her dark thoughts about the current administration, and concern about issues such as climate change and immigration, come through clearly, though. On a side note, it seems like Patti Smith doesn't really need to be taking rides from strangers anymore. I was a little worried for her.