Aminatou Sow
Auteur van Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Werken van Aminatou Sow
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1985-04
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- female
- Nationaliteit
- Guinea
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- Guinea
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- Guinea
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United States - Opleiding
- University of Texas at Austin (BA|Government)
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- podcaster
digital strategist
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- #66,319
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- 3.2
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- 11
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Unfortunately, I am not in this demographic, so the book wasn't my cup of tea. But also, I'm not totally sure how much true fans will get out of it, either.
Big Friendship as it turns out is a joint memoir with stories very loosely organized by chapter themes like "the internet" and "compromise" (I really got the impression that these two actually wanted to write a bunch of different books chronicling their opinions on the internet or women in business, etc but instead forced themselves to shove ideas under these chapter titles). We get a lot of biographical information on Ann and Aminatou's personal/professional lives, but, because they clearly wanted to respect everyone else's privacy, we don't get details. A lot of the stories felt bland and impersonal - "I was in a bad relationship," is much less fun to read than "I was dating this guy named Kevin who consistently prioritized his dog and his workout schedule over me." I appreciate the desire to let all your friends and enemies maintain their anonymity, but couldn't they have simply changed some names and details and thus kept the color in?
They incessantly remind you that all this backstory is leading up to their big friendship blowout. They promise juicy details and drama, then when you actually get to the falling out (in the second to last chapter), there just isn't one. Literally. They just. Grew apart. And then they went to platonic couple's therapy and everything was okay again (except maybe it wasn't, because they get particularly vague about what has happened in their friendship since then, leading me to suspect that they are, in fact, maybe not as close of friends anymore). Y'all...
The most compelling parts ended up being the research-backed advice bits. These nibblets were sparse and sprinkled completely at random - some chapters had barely none, then the last chapter was almost 100% interesting data and suggestions. Maybe just read that last bit?… (meer)