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4.0
même si l'histoire est déjà vu - étudiante en littérature découvre que le monde de travail n'est pas fait pour les rêveurs - ça m'a plu jusqu'à la fin ou j'ai dit merde ! une autre histoire qui termine comme ça. bon j'ai adoré le style graphique et le "confrontation" avec le vendeur mini mart. et si je n'ai pas lu autant de livres ou vu autant de films je ne serait pas gêné par la fin
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I couldn't remember if I'd read it, so I picked it up again at the library in a graphics novel grabbing frenzy (somebody stop me!!!) and as soon as I saw the line about perfume for 9 year old girls, I remembered that indeed I had.
Perhaps I'm at the right time in my life to enjoy this kind of story, an impending change in my work life, having had that perfume slogan moment and known that I wasn't in the right place, letting a corporation steal from my life, committing small acts of self sabotage, and just being on the cusp of changing everything and almost teetering back to the corporate side (let's face it, if her encounter with the photographer had gone better she could've convinced herself to hang on for longer).
I was annoyed by the ending last time because it wasn't realistic, like okaaaay, I live in NYC and have mad rent to pay but I'm gonna say hang it and become a writer - and using black & white composition books to boot (still better than a typewriter lol)! I am often annoyed by books about people becoming writers or books about writers for a while (Henry Quebert x_x), probably because it's something I would love to do and I just can't figure out how to buckle down and do it.
Comparing this book to the last one I read [b:Marche Ou Rêve|12174954|Marche Ou Rêve|Laurel|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1539027989l/12174954._SX50_.jpg|17146527] is interesting because both characters are faced with the opportunity to make big decisions and here our heroine does it, she makes a really big decision, even if perhaps nudged in the right direction by a couple of events like discovering her friend in bed with the hot photographer or being confronted by the 7-eleven employee - whereas Harold in Marche doesn't really decide, things just happen to him and instead of moving away from being like his father, which he wants to do, he ends up setting up the conditions for the exact same life.
But let's face it, Corrina has already played the phoenix rising from the ashes game once and lost, by leaving her small town and moving to the big city. So who knows if she will be a success, and maybe she too is setting up the same conditions for her to feel as miserable and soulless as she felt before, because let's face it, she's going to have to become a barista or something to make ends meet.
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I couldn't remember if I'd read it, so I picked it up again at the library in a graphics novel grabbing frenzy (somebody stop me!!!) and as soon as I saw the line about perfume for 9 year old girls, I remembered that indeed I had.
Perhaps I'm at the right time in my life to enjoy this kind of story, an impending change in my work life, having had that perfume slogan moment and known that I wasn't in the right place, letting a corporation steal from my life, committing small acts of self sabotage, and just being on the cusp of changing everything and almost teetering back to the corporate side (let's face it, if her encounter with the photographer had gone better she could've convinced herself to hang on for longer).
I was annoyed by the ending last time because it wasn't realistic, like okaaaay, I live in NYC and have mad rent to pay but I'm gonna say hang it and become a writer - and using black & white composition books to boot (still better than a typewriter lol)! I am often annoyed by books about people becoming writers or books about writers for a while (Henry Quebert x_x), probably because it's something I would love to do and I just can't figure out how to buckle down and do it.
Comparing this book to the last one I read [b:Marche Ou Rêve|12174954|Marche Ou Rêve|Laurel|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1539027989l/12174954._SX50_.jpg|17146527] is interesting because both characters are faced with the opportunity to make big decisions and here our heroine does it, she makes a really big decision, even if perhaps nudged in the right direction by a couple of events like discovering her friend in bed with the hot photographer or being confronted by the 7-eleven employee - whereas Harold in Marche doesn't really decide, things just happen to him and instead of moving away from being like his father, which he wants to do, he ends up setting up the conditions for the exact same life.
But let's face it, Corrina has already played the phoenix rising from the ashes game once and lost, by leaving her small town and moving to the big city. So who knows if she will be a success, and maybe she too is setting up the same conditions for her to feel as miserable and soulless as she felt before, because let's face it, she's going to have to become a barista or something to make ends meet.
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