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The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir | 
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pickGreat memoir told through the streets of New York.
I like the multiple vignettes she writes,based on memory and utilising the city and its streets. Her gentle musings on relationship and the inhabitants of the places she walks.
pickA love letter to New York. The city where Gornick was born and has lived her entire life.
A look at her friendships and her relationships
A look at authors like Dickens and Hugo and unknown ones like Charles Reznikoff, Mary B. Miller, and how they view the city.
The memoir is told in vignettes, and I loved it.
When the library opens again I‘ll read her first memoir.
#BookReport
📚 I‘ve read a chapter a day in HP for #PotterADay
📚 I‘ve read some poems
📚 Everything else finished
🎧 Continue the forth Department Q book
So I‘ve read everything I wanted to read this week, and there‘s still many hours left of Saturday 😊
I‘ll go out for a walk now listening to my audio and when I get back, I‘ll decide what I pick up next
#WeeklyForcast
Since I‘ll be spending a lot more time at home in the foreseeable future, I thought I should read some literature I don‘t normally read
📚 I‘ll join in on #PotterADay for the fourth book. I‘ve been wanting to read the illustrated edition since it was published
📚 read a poem or two a day
📚 read a nonfiction and a short story collection
📚 finish Disappearing Earth an start the tagged
🎧 continue the fourth Department Q book
pickRiding my NYC book kick. This memoir was a series of short remembrances.
#rockinmay #newyorkminute
I love Vivian Gornick!Native New Yorker ,memoirist,feminist, essayist, I enjoy everything she writes.Odd woman so beguiling ,in that sometimes city life can be a solitary life , yet you are connected to the randomness of New York and interconnected to your fellow New Yorkers in odd ways you might not imagine.Her interests far ranging ,I wish I could meet her for coffee and see where the conversation takes us
This is a book about cities, walking, friendship, mothers, literature, and more. What's not to like? #recommendsday
'What independence has come to mean to me: The pain of solitude. The pleasure of self-knowledge." - Vivian Gornick.
Sadly this is DNF. I was excited and caught up at the beginning as Gornick discussed her friendship with Leonard. But then the snippets of street conversation just lost me. I didn't care enough to continue.
