On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

BATB score: 5/10 🍂

BATB Reading Level: Advanceeee

Ocean Vuong is a poet and his story-tell rhythm is likeas a poem; you either love that about him or you don’t

Best to: this book tries to be too many things - a memoir, history channel, animal planet, national geographic, coming of age; and touching on too many topics - immigration, war refugees, PTSD, illiteracy, racism, poverty, family, homosexuality #omg

Best as: a very difficult book to write, to read, and to follow through; you know how poems repeat itself so there’s a musical tempo to it yet it’s not saying much from the last paragraph

Best for: vietnamese people would probably relate to this book more than any other ethnicity

Best quote: “You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”

See? Saying so much but also so little in one paragraph.