Strangers to Ourselves

Book 47 of my 2024 Reading Challenge

read from June 2 - 15

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us

by Rachel Aviv

My Opinion

2 stars 

Checking In (about 17% through):

This is very slow going for me.  I pretty much always have 3 books going at a time but I've started and finished multiple books since starting this one because I just never come back to it.

I don't feel like abandoning it but I'm also struggling to get into it.  I think focusing on one person at a time both makes the read enjoyable because hearing individual stories is part of the appeal but also makes it difficult because there hasn't been much of a throughline so far.

Checking In (about 60% through):

It's been about a week since I wrote the checkin above so it's still slow going.

Naomi's story was particularly compelling so I believe I now have the momentum to finish the book today or tomorrow.

Final Thoughts:

I did finish the book by the end of the day.

My feelings remain the same.  It wasn't that I was struggling to read it while I was reading it, it was that I didn't feel any compulsion to return to it when I would set it down.