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annefroukje's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
gioia1's review against another edition
4.0
good breakup book. other than that I don’t know why I really liked it.
floraelmcolone's review against another edition
4.0
I wanted pure colour 2.0. Which I know does not exist. This was still an enjoyable read though. Occasionally made me feel Bad. But also occasionally made me feel Good. I hate writing reviews
kwalsh18's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.75
sineadw9's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
jay_reading's review against another edition
2.0
mhm, this book felt a little hollow (like there’s no true meaning to these ramblings).
after the first couple chapters i thought to myself, the author must be white (and she is) and that “kind of” helped me try to understand where she’s coming from, but overall still left feeling nothing for it
after the first couple chapters i thought to myself, the author must be white (and she is) and that “kind of” helped me try to understand where she’s coming from, but overall still left feeling nothing for it
cremefracas's review against another edition
5.0
You don't have to idolize your narrator. This was great. You see the male version of this narrator all the time. Why is a female version still so fresh/controversial/anger-inducing? Laugh riot?
e333mily's review against another edition
4.0
“In all of this, there was one overarching question that never left my side, an ongoing task that could never be called complete, though I hoped one day it would be: What was the right way to react to people? Who was I to talk to at parties? How was I to be?”
“For so long I had been looking hard into every person I met, hoping I might discover in them all the thoughts and feelings I hoped life would give me but hadn't.”
“They must work — without escaping into fantasies about being the person who worked. And I don't mean work for its own sake; but they must choose work that begins and ends in a passion, a question that is gnawing at their guts, which is not to be avoided but must be realized and lived through hard work and the suffering that inevitably comes with the process.”
“My panic increased as I thought of ways I could take my decision back, trying to remind myself meanwhile that the point of life was not to avoid suffering — that any choice involved suffering — and that in choosing to leave the salon, I was choosing one kind of suffering, while choosing to stay would involve another, whereas going back and forth as I was doing now was the worst kind of suffering of all, as it was an attempt to avoid life, which would leave me finally with nothing.”
“For so long I had been looking hard into every person I met, hoping I might discover in them all the thoughts and feelings I hoped life would give me but hadn't.”
“They must work — without escaping into fantasies about being the person who worked. And I don't mean work for its own sake; but they must choose work that begins and ends in a passion, a question that is gnawing at their guts, which is not to be avoided but must be realized and lived through hard work and the suffering that inevitably comes with the process.”
“My panic increased as I thought of ways I could take my decision back, trying to remind myself meanwhile that the point of life was not to avoid suffering — that any choice involved suffering — and that in choosing to leave the salon, I was choosing one kind of suffering, while choosing to stay would involve another, whereas going back and forth as I was doing now was the worst kind of suffering of all, as it was an attempt to avoid life, which would leave me finally with nothing.”
colleenxm's review against another edition
4.0
Sheila is such a fcking genius it makes me sad that I can’t have constant access to her daily musings