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She was talented. At just 22, she had a strong sense of self in her writing. even when I was reading her fiction, I thought I was reading about her life. It's terrible that her life was cut so short - the book is ominous at times, almost as though she knew she would not live long. She spoke of death and what she hopes for her life, and what she hopes carries on after she passes. I am sure he mother is grateful for the one piece dedicated to her dedication as a mother. I read it in 2 days - I recommend.


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The Opposite of Loneliness Essays and Stories Marina Keegan Anne Fadiman Books Reviews

I honestly didn't expect to be as taken with this book as I was.

The essays were the best of the book though. The short stories were good they were just a little well, weirdly, I thought cold and distant for most of them. However I related to all the essays. The author had a great grasp of language and writing and I wish I could have read more of her writing. The titled essay The Opposite of Loneliness was my favorite of all of them.

Her writing does touch a lot on mortality and I wonder if it wouldn't have stood out so without the author's untimely death. I always wonder when I read about people like her who did so much in such a short time and seemed to think so much about mortality did some little part of them know they wouldn't have long? Who knows? In that respect it also made the book feel a lot more personal to me than it might other wise have. But that's only my opinion and reading of it.

I'd recommend this one to everyone but especially for people Marina's age or younger.
While I can appreciate the collection, the tone and style of the work. This is a collection of essays from a college student and far from a complete insight of what it means to be in your early 20s. I can recognize (and have sympathy for) the unfair reality that Marina died far too young. But that does not mean we should lift her writing higher than it is. The first essay is the strongest and the others feel like college writing assignments. I regret that we will never get to read the writer Marina could have become, but overall the book kind feels like what it is a composition of her limited works.
I am a high school creative writing teacher and I have been modeling Marina Keegan's writings and WORD poems for years now. Marina's extraordinary mom was kind enough to come speak to my class. Probably the best thing I can say is that a student of mine who was suicidal took interest in this book during Marina's mom's visit and read it all in one night---the next day he told me that the book changed his outlook on life. Thus, the book is true to its title---the opposite of loneliness is what the readers are able to feel because Marina Keegan is ever the best of company. She pulls you in by the hands and takes you on a spin that leaves you out of breath, beaming with amusement and pleading for more.
If anyone can save American democracy from this century's suffocating cloud of ignorance and violence, it will be our daughters and granddaughters.
A collection of scraps and pieces from the tragically extinguished life of a bright young woman reminds us again that a society must embrace the truth and candor of youth to save itself from the opportunistic mob of decaying liars, swindlers and self-serving fear-mongers who would drag it into darkness.
Give this book to your teenage daughters and granddaughters, and ask them to take up the torch that Marina Keegan barely had a chance to light.
Amazing! I am an avid reader. As a frame of reference, I like Haruki Murakami, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitch Albom, Lorrie Moore, and the like. I also like books like Christopher Moore's when I need laughs. But Marina Keegan is in a class by herself. Put aside her tragic and untimely death, which, admittedly, is very hard to do, it is almost impossible to believe these stories were written by someone in her very early 20's. To me, a great book is one that not merely keeps you involved while reading it, but adds something to you that doesn't go away. This is such a book. All but one of the stories in this book has made a lasting impact. It is truly sad that Ms. Keegan is not around to write more. I hold out hope that her family will see fit to publish more of her writing.
Sometimes there are moments where life reaches out and slaps you across the face. You find something that wakes you up and inspires action and most of all hope. Reading Marina Keegan’s work was one of those moments for me. I have been aware of this book for a while, but had put it off due to the ubiquitous “fear it won’t be as good as people claim”. Boy, was I wrong.

I was set up to be disappointed. I typically hate short stories. As far as I’m concerned it’s like eating one fun sized Snickers or reading one chapter in a book. Who does that? Once I started on this collection, I consumed the remainder within 18 hours despite work interruptions (No, I did not play hooky though extremely tempting). These stories had me alternating between tears, hope, thoughtfulness and joy. Read this book. Remember what it was like to be 22, and find an amazing collection of work infused with energy and enthusiasm.

Who should read it? Just buy it. Even you non-readers can handle short stories!

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She was talented. At just 22, she had a strong sense of self in her writing. even when I was reading her fiction, I thought I was reading about her life. It's terrible that her life was cut so short - the book is ominous at times, almost as though she knew she would not live long. She spoke of death and what she hopes for her life, and what she hopes carries on after she passes. I am sure he mother is grateful for the one piece dedicated to her dedication as a mother. I read it in 2 days - I recommend.