Notes to Self

This felt more like a memoir without a continuous structure than a true collection of essays. There are only 6 of them, and they're all focused on different periods in Pine's life, without leading to much discussion of a broader or external conclusions. It's more about her own life experience and fantastic if you read it as a personal memoir. Engaging, brutally honest, and full of detail and life. The first two essays were without a doubt the strongest (‘Notes on Intemperance' on her father's health crisis after a lifetime of alcoholism, and ‘The Baby Years' on infertility), so that made the book feel even slightly uneven because of that, but I still loved it as a whole.