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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
funny
reflective
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medium-paced
i think we all collectively agree that hemingway was shit and there was no way he could justify his actions towards what he did to hadley.
nevertheless, this was an enjoyable read for me. hotchner’s writing was truly enticing to me. i wanted to devour this whole book in one night. alas, i had to prioritise what matters first.
it was so interesting getting to peek inside hemingway and hotchner’s friendship along with hemingway’s constant turbulence in his love life. hadley truly did deserved better and i could never understand hemingway’s desire of wanting and loving two women at the same time (which i 100% think pauline is a major homewrecker having read this account). was hadley not enough? was the life he had with hadley, the family that they built, was that not satisfaction enough that he needed someone new?
these are the questions that i repeatedly ask as i progressed through the book. but reading of hemingway’s deteriorating mental health truly hit the sympathetic nerve in me. sure his love life is messed up and that may have contributed to the decaying of his mental health but reading hemingway talk of suicidal intentions and his depression sends me a melancholic wave that i never thought it would. so if you are interested in giving this memoir a go, please bear in mind such trigger warnings (talks of mental health, suicidal ideations, cheating etc.).
nevertheless, this was an enjoyable read for me. hotchner’s writing was truly enticing to me. i wanted to devour this whole book in one night. alas, i had to prioritise what matters first.
it was so interesting getting to peek inside hemingway and hotchner’s friendship along with hemingway’s constant turbulence in his love life. hadley truly did deserved better and i could never understand hemingway’s desire of wanting and loving two women at the same time (which i 100% think pauline is a major homewrecker having read this account). was hadley not enough? was the life he had with hadley, the family that they built, was that not satisfaction enough that he needed someone new?
these are the questions that i repeatedly ask as i progressed through the book. but reading of hemingway’s deteriorating mental health truly hit the sympathetic nerve in me. sure his love life is messed up and that may have contributed to the decaying of his mental health but reading hemingway talk of suicidal intentions and his depression sends me a melancholic wave that i never thought it would. so if you are interested in giving this memoir a go, please bear in mind such trigger warnings (talks of mental health, suicidal ideations, cheating etc.).
informative
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I’ve never resonated with Hemingway before reading this book. I guess it’s true, in the end we all fall back on our first love. What a terribly beautiful tragedy to look forward to.
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emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
A book to be taken with a grain of salt as the narrator narrating another narrator squares the probability of unreliability, but nonetheless a fantastic, enjoyable, and easy read. While i do not love Hemingway's style of prose, i respect him for the writer he was. He was larger than life, adventurous, foolish, and unabashedly himself. Hotchner humanizes the Hemingway we all know, showing Ernest - or Papa - with many pensive moments of brutal honesty and humility. I resonated with his loving, losing, and never quite recovering from Hadley.
Everyone has a story. I find Hemingway's most interesting.
Quote:
“I want you to know, Hadley, you’ll be the true part of any woman I write about.”
“I want you to know, Hadley, you’ll be the true part of any woman I write about.”