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3Slightly diff nonfic stars
This might require a lot more legwork than I realize on first blush since I’m not sure the UI recognizes a big difference between fic / nonfic, but I would really like if the 5-category star breakdown were different on nonfic.
Specifically, since “plot” and “characters” don’t really apply, I think it would be maybe useful to have something like “structure” and “topic.” Or maybe “research,” but that wouldn’t really apply to something like memoir and it’s hard to gauge that sort of thing if you don’t know much about the subject.
I kind of hate leaving the plot and characters stars blank and I think it would be useful to know how well the flow of information (like structure) is organized.
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3Slightly diff nonfic stars
This might require a lot more legwork than I realize on first blush since I’m not sure the UI recognizes a big difference between fic / nonfic, but I would really like if the 5-category star breakdown were different on nonfic.
Specifically, since “plot” and “characters” don’t really apply, I think it would be maybe useful to have something like “structure” and “topic.” Or maybe “research,” but that wouldn’t really apply to something like memoir and it’s hard to gauge that sort of thing if you don’t know much about the subject.
I kind of hate leaving the plot and characters stars blank and I think it would be useful to know how well the flow of information (like structure) is organized.
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Every essay I really think back to the touchstone of the introduction, about how this is John Green’s attempt at loving the world, and I do think that’s the most important possible context for this.
When he writes essays about really difficult things from his life but through the lens of its objective and strange and sometimes-wonderful history intersecting with his own experiences, or when he talks about how irony-poisoned he used to be, you can really FEEL him grappling with trying to look the world dead in the eyes and love it.
I think it’s definitely more moving than if John Green were just this naturally relentlessly optimistic person from birth who’s always just been this little ray of sunshine appreciating all of God’s creatures in this wondrously sincere way. Everything is still colored a by his sardonicism and dry humor and quippy little asides, but his optimism and curiosity feel earned, so it makes mine feel earned too.
I have cried so many times over absolutely buckwild topics.
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I had forgotten what a COVID lockdown period-piece this is, in a way. In a way the lockdown almost feels like a through-line. I think he could have technically written a series of essays in 2019 similar to this, but I don’t think he could have written THIS series of essays earlier or later than he did.
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Every essay I really think back to the touchstone of the introduction, about how this is John Green’s attempt at loving the world, and I do think that’s the most important possible context for this.
When he writes essays about really difficult things from his life but through the lens of its objective and strange and sometimes-wonderful history intersecting with his own experiences, or when he talks about how irony-poisoned he used to be, you can really FEEL him grappling with trying to look the world dead in the eyes and love it.
I think it’s definitely more moving than if John Green were just this naturally relentlessly optimistic person from birth who’s always just been this little ray of sunshine appreciating all of God’s creatures in this wondrously sincere way. Everything is still colored a by his sardonicism and dry humor and quippy little asides, but his optimism and curiosity feel earned, so it makes mine feel earned too.
I have cried so many times over absolutely buckwild topics.
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