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heleneium's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
kneuk's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Different kind of book that consists entirely of life stories told by secondary characters. I wish I were someone who didn’t feel bad about underlining passages in books because I’d love to revisit the many reflections on life that rang true to my own experiences. That being said, I was a little bored through some of it.
mae_inlove's review against another edition
4.0
Each one of us has a story to tell, each one of us have their own version of truth and each one of us have their own suffering.
This book started off as dull(it had some really cliché ideas that you could encounter in an average book) but then after the fifth chapter it got really interesting and fun.
It was one of them books that left me thinking a bit after certain paragraphs.
What I enjoyed the most was how the author kept switching between stories (it made it interesting for me).
Even though I am no parent nor a married/divorced woman, i felt that i could relate to so many things in this book such as the femininity crisis, the times when you even lose ur will to try, the affection seeking, the way i have to give up certain things for things that matter to me, the burden you put on urself just to please ur loved ones but it never matters to them etc…
To conclude this book felt like therapy somehow.
This book started off as dull(it had some really cliché ideas that you could encounter in an average book) but then after the fifth chapter it got really interesting and fun.
It was one of them books that left me thinking a bit after certain paragraphs.
What I enjoyed the most was how the author kept switching between stories (it made it interesting for me).
Even though I am no parent nor a married/divorced woman, i felt that i could relate to so many things in this book such as the femininity crisis, the times when you even lose ur will to try, the affection seeking, the way i have to give up certain things for things that matter to me, the burden you put on urself just to please ur loved ones but it never matters to them etc…
To conclude this book felt like therapy somehow.
lukkewarrm's review against another edition
4.5
wow i love the importance of conversation… i love observing…… i love words and descriptions….
“…while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank. Yet this shape, even while its content remained unknown, gave her for the first time since the incident a sense of who she now was.”
“…while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank. Yet this shape, even while its content remained unknown, gave her for the first time since the incident a sense of who she now was.”
leonorcferreira's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.5
scohen_'s review against another edition
4.0
Simultaneously delicious and infuriating; a good subway read
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”
rubyprior's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0