Emily, thank you for sharing your thoughtful words about this book and the author. You pose tough questions and challenges faced by many readers that elevate that question: "Is it possible to have a relationship with a work of art that is independent from the artist?". With thoughtful consideration. I suspect that the proposed answer to your question: "Would it be better to throw it all out and put my energy elsewhere?".....with time, could possibly be to not throw it out, but to set it aside. I feel that our feelings/attitudes evolve with time and maybe you don't have to decide. Just settle with it, that it is not comfortable, will never be comfortable, and that it is interesting to think about. Hang on to those joys that her book brought you, and keep them separated from the evidence that your mature self sees revealed by the author herself. How will you feel in 20 years? Wouldn't it be interesting if Rowling has an epiphany in the future and changes her attitude?
I don't think it ever leaves you because it is unresolvable.....you just figure out how to ooze into the enjoyment of the art with an understanding that there is a purity missing.
Emily, thank you for sharing your thoughtful words about this book and the author. You pose tough questions and challenges faced by many readers that elevate that question: "Is it possible to have a relationship with a work of art that is independent from the artist?". With thoughtful consideration. I suspect that the proposed answer to your question: "Would it be better to throw it all out and put my energy elsewhere?".....with time, could possibly be to not throw it out, but to set it aside. I feel that our feelings/attitudes evolve with time and maybe you don't have to decide. Just settle with it, that it is not comfortable, will never be comfortable, and that it is interesting to think about. Hang on to those joys that her book brought you, and keep them separated from the evidence that your mature self sees revealed by the author herself. How will you feel in 20 years? Wouldn't it be interesting if Rowling has an epiphany in the future and changes her attitude?
Thank you for sticking with the reading all the way through. I'll keep thinking about this in the future.
I don't think it ever leaves you because it is unresolvable.....you just figure out how to ooze into the enjoyment of the art with an understanding that there is a purity missing.