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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-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
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
ah, so interesting..
this feels like it took me literally forever to read and in many ways it did. I got through the first story really quickly, found the second one basically unreadable and the third one presented me with a tricky dillema. I think Beauvoir's writing, albeit translated, is incredible. This expression of madness, despair, the feeling of losing oneself. It's done so well and I was highlighting like a crazy person. But! I could barely read it because the subject matter is so so unrelatable. And this is coming from a person who loves escapism and reading about people whose lives I could never ever relate to. But this notion of falling into such a state of despair because you've given up your whole life to loving your husband and nothing else. And basing your entire happiness on that?? It's just something I am so fundamentally against, that I can't really read it and enjoy it one second. I loved the passages in which she contemplates how the way that she brought up her daughters reflects on how they've turned out.
Anyways, I think I am enjoying this keyboard and its swift buttons too much, I should stop
this feels like it took me literally forever to read and in many ways it did. I got through the first story really quickly, found the second one basically unreadable and the third one presented me with a tricky dillema. I think Beauvoir's writing, albeit translated, is incredible. This expression of madness, despair, the feeling of losing oneself. It's done so well and I was highlighting like a crazy person. But! I could barely read it because the subject matter is so so unrelatable. And this is coming from a person who loves escapism and reading about people whose lives I could never ever relate to. But this notion of falling into such a state of despair because you've given up your whole life to loving your husband and nothing else. And basing your entire happiness on that?? It's just something I am so fundamentally against, that I can't really read it and enjoy it one second. I loved the passages in which she contemplates how the way that she brought up her daughters reflects on how they've turned out.
Anyways, I think I am enjoying this keyboard and its swift buttons too much, I should stop
A very different book from my normal read. Was it happy? Fill me hope for the future? No. But did I love it in its own way? Most definitely. I would describe reading it like people watching- easy and entertaining- I couldn’t look away
I was a few pages from the end of the book and decided to give up.
Reading this was like being force fed someone’s diary.
While there are discussions of some important topics like our eventual death and the struggle inside marriage and monogamy, most of it read like a big ole whiney drone he said … she said… I was annoyed.. yet nothing is learned or changes.
Reading this was like being force fed someone’s diary.
While there are discussions of some important topics like our eventual death and the struggle inside marriage and monogamy, most of it read like a big ole whiney drone he said … she said… I was annoyed.. yet nothing is learned or changes.
Didn’t read second but first and third were very emotional. The third one ended when she was at her lowest - did she kill herself? Is that why the diaries ended?
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I can’t even describe how the last story in this collection made me feel. I was so anxious throughout the entire section and just so hurt.