Review: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
I'm taking a memoir writing course this semester so recently I have been eager to get my hands on anything non-fiction. My main dilemma: how does one write honestly about themselves and their life? I've always found it incredibly difficult to be honest in my writing, and writing often felt like the place where I could lie and get away with it, even when writing about myself. Of course I could be a unicorn-owning, mathematically competent girl with seventeen dogs. I could be whoever I wanted to be in my writing! But, as it turned out, that genre is called fiction. So, writing non-fiction has been a challenge for me. Every week I sit at my keyboard trying to tell my life like it is or was, and fighting off the urge to add embellishment. But it would make the story so much betterrrrrr , my subconscious whines, and I have to shut it up every time. Point is: writing non-fiction (particularly about yourself, your life, and your most vulnerable moments) is fucking HARD. So, props to