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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The book was an infatuated boy who grows to understand that loving someone is a complicated and often futile matter when you are not in the position. Especially when your own friends and family members are involved. The main character is not the only one attracted to this girl in this moment, it's everyone.
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
This book is truly hilarious...sensitive soft-boy falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful older woman who through her charm manipulates and plays with the hearts of the men surrounding her. Surprisingly kinky and wonderfully dramatic, I would recommend giving First Love a shot.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
the year my voice broke if it was 19th century russian lit
Turgenev writes with great sensibility in flowing prose that I couldn't stop reading, about complex uncontrolled passions and its violent excitements and torments, and a changed view of life for Vladimir. The exhilaration of love, the intolerable and unyielding fervour of love...
I very much enjoyed the comedy - when the men, all her many suitors, are first introduced and described; and when Zinaida tells her story of what each of them would do to a fictional lover.
I also rarely laugh openly when reading... '- a man apprared - O God, it was my father!' is a prime example, then i was flooded with 'O God', then it became slightly more humorous again... 'Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy…'
And what is with these father-son love triangles? Is there something about the familial connection between the pair that becomes all rather similar and blurred to the third?
Over time I actively felt I could see more and more of his naiveté and saw through beyond, the larger picture, of his feelings: 'I shall show the whole world and her, the traitor (I actually used the word “traitor”) that I know the meaning of revenge!'
This is rated it in terms of how it spoke to me, and that's all I will write publicly.. I shall want to purchase a physical copy one day and pour my thoughts into the margins.
'linking mind and feelings', 'growth of knowledge of the heart' - Pritchett, in introduction
'It seemed to me that I had known her for a long time, and that before her I had known nothing and had not lived....'
'I pined away, but her presence brought me no relief. I was jealous and felt conscious of my worthlessness.'
'I gave myself freely to my sensations as they came, telling myself lies and hiding from my own memories, and closed my eyes to what I sensed was coming.'
'What did she hope for, was she not frightened of ruining her whole future? Yes, I thought, this is it - this is love; this is passion; this is devotion.'
I very much enjoyed the comedy - when the men, all her many suitors, are first introduced and described; and when Zinaida tells her story of what each of them would do to a fictional lover.
I also rarely laugh openly when reading... '- a man apprared - O God, it was my father!' is a prime example, then i was flooded with 'O God', then it became slightly more humorous again... 'Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy…'
And what is with these father-son love triangles? Is there something about the familial connection between the pair that becomes all rather similar and blurred to the third?
Over time I actively felt I could see more and more of his naiveté and saw through beyond, the larger picture, of his feelings: 'I shall show the whole world and her, the traitor (I actually used the word “traitor”) that I know the meaning of revenge!'
This is rated it in terms of how it spoke to me, and that's all I will write publicly.. I shall want to purchase a physical copy one day and pour my thoughts into the margins.
'linking mind and feelings', 'growth of knowledge of the heart' - Pritchett, in introduction
'It seemed to me that I had known her for a long time, and that before her I had known nothing and had not lived....'
'I pined away, but her presence brought me no relief. I was jealous and felt conscious of my worthlessness.'
'I gave myself freely to my sensations as they came, telling myself lies and hiding from my own memories, and closed my eyes to what I sensed was coming.'
'What did she hope for, was she not frightened of ruining her whole future? Yes, I thought, this is it - this is love; this is passion; this is devotion.'
a vida de um heterossexual é muito sem graça, um ensaio de 100 paginas
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“i felt a strange excitement, as if i had set out for a rendezvous – and had remained alone and walked past someone else’s happiness.”
“youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, even grief is a comfort to you…bold, you say: “Look, I’m the only one alive!” while the very days of your life run away and everything in you disappears like wax, like snow…”