Friday, November 15, 2019

Book Review - Patti Smith's Year of the Monkey

Anything is possible - it's the Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

cover blurb - February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and also inescapable sorrow. For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing - this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. 

As Patti Smith travels from CA to AZ to KY, her dreamlike writing and haunting Polaroids give Year of the Monkey quite a reflection on a life. She's a unique woman - funny,  wise,  odd, endearing,  and weird. There are times I wasn't sure I truly understood her message or thought process. However, this book is unique and intriguing,  as is the singer poet rebel that is Patti Smith.




8 comments:

  1. Most of that description you used about Patti Smith could be... me. HA (Especially the "odd" and "weird"...)

    Sounds like an interesting book. Thanks.

    Have a super weekend.

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    1. my favorite of hers is Just Kids. She's an interesting person always a bit ahead of her time

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  2. It do sounds interesting Joanne. Thanks for the review.

    Enjoy your weekend.

    Yvonne.

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  3. This sounds intriguing. Thanks for the review. Hope you have a great weekend!

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    1. you have to be in the mood for some weirdness. One to read an ponder

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  4. haha sounds like all attributes that work well as one

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    1. she's been through a lot and truly does sit, think, and write

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