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ang44's review
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
These two quotes -
"The world doesn't count me as anything and every time I get hold of a corner of it, it slips out of my hands again. People die and buildings are torn down over them.
"The world doesn't count me as anything and every time I get hold of a corner of it, it slips out of my hands again. People die and buildings are torn down over them.
The world is constantly changing - it's only my childhood's world that endures."
"I think that I'm always having to say goodbye to men - staring at their backs and hearing their steps disappear in the darkness. And they seldom turn around to wave at me."
Both of these sum up the sadness and the heartbreak that these first two books have conjured in me thus far. I find myself so desperate to finish the trilogy and simultaneously so frustrated with this being an autofiction story, as I want to know so badly what some of the details are in Ditlevsen's life that aren't elaborated on!!! I'm so excited to explore the rest of her writing after reading about her own life by her own pen.
karinlib's review
4.0
Ditlevsen's second book in the Copenhagen Trilogy.
Tove is forced to leave school once she has finished Middle School because her parents can't afford the fees, and she finds herself working in very low paying jobs. She is looking forward to being 18 so that she can move into her own place. She wants to write poetry and be loved, which she thinks will only happen if she lives on her own. WII is about to start.
I find that I cannot put these books down. Luckily for me they are novellas.
Tove is forced to leave school once she has finished Middle School because her parents can't afford the fees, and she finds herself working in very low paying jobs. She is looking forward to being 18 so that she can move into her own place. She wants to write poetry and be loved, which she thinks will only happen if she lives on her own. WII is about to start.
I find that I cannot put these books down. Luckily for me they are novellas.
megsthomas's review against another edition
4.5
my youth is nothing more than a deficiency and a hindrance that i can’t get rid of fast enough! 😎