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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was an odd one. I picked it up at Blackbird Books & Coffee, and it has this beautiful cover with a lot of symbols from the book itself.
Anyway, I think this book perhaps suffers a little in translation. The formatting feels a bit off putting instead of effective. I like the house as a character and how it interacts with the other characters. It seems to have a mind of its own. This book has some nice commentary on class consciousness and feminism. A lot of this reminds me of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, particularly in the narrators.
There were a number of times throughout this book that I felt kind of confused by who was narrating. At a few points, it seemed like there was a third narrator, even. Just a few things to keep in mind if picking this one up.
Some quotes:
"May the Virgin forgive me but sometimes I don't think God exists because if he did he'd surely have found a place in heaven for those poor souls, who never did anything in their lives but go hungry and slave away for other people... But how can there be a God who sends those people to hell if hell's where they were already living, cheek by jowl in those caves without a crumb to eat."
"I'd hated that job because ever since I was little I'd found the smell of dead hair disgusting, but my mother didn't care because disgust, like compassion, is a luxury the poor can't afford."
Anyway, I think this book perhaps suffers a little in translation. The formatting feels a bit off putting instead of effective. I like the house as a character and how it interacts with the other characters. It seems to have a mind of its own. This book has some nice commentary on class consciousness and feminism. A lot of this reminds me of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, particularly in the narrators.
There were a number of times throughout this book that I felt kind of confused by who was narrating. At a few points, it seemed like there was a third narrator, even. Just a few things to keep in mind if picking this one up.
Some quotes:
"May the Virgin forgive me but sometimes I don't think God exists because if he did he'd surely have found a place in heaven for those poor souls, who never did anything in their lives but go hungry and slave away for other people... But how can there be a God who sends those people to hell if hell's where they were already living, cheek by jowl in those caves without a crumb to eat."
"I'd hated that job because ever since I was little I'd found the smell of dead hair disgusting, but my mother didn't care because disgust, like compassion, is a luxury the poor can't afford."
dark
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
La casa misma actúa como un organismo vivo, un útero en descomposición que encierra y alimenta los fantasmas del linaje.
Hace mucho no leía este tipo de libros de terror.
Hace mucho no leía este tipo de libros de terror.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Explores anger, resentment, and violence across a generation of women. Allows for reflection on how trauma and anger are passed down and how we choose to live with it or process. Critiques social class structures and how misogyny is also passed down. We love angry women and we love dead hateful men. Questionable through and through.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
dark
Plus je lis des récits d'autrices hispaniques (Espagne et Amérique du Sud) et plus j'observe un fil rouge dans la manière dont l'horreur prend forme.
Que ce soit dans Carcoma, Notre part de nuit (Mariana Enríquez), Les Dangers de fumer au lit (Mariana Enríquez) ou Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), l'horreur est tangible, elle se loge dans le recoin des maisons, dans les armoires, sous les lits, s'empare du corps des femmes, se matérialise dans quelque chose de dégoûtant, de viscéral allant parfois jusqu'au grotesque.
Un truc à étudier...
Que ce soit dans Carcoma, Notre part de nuit (Mariana Enríquez), Les Dangers de fumer au lit (Mariana Enríquez) ou Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), l'horreur est tangible, elle se loge dans le recoin des maisons, dans les armoires, sous les lits, s'empare du corps des femmes, se matérialise dans quelque chose de dégoûtant, de viscéral allant parfois jusqu'au grotesque.
Un truc à étudier...
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
dark
tense