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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
Es muy difícil leer e imaginarse al personaje no poder sentir ninguna emoción. Fue un camino en el que ves crecer a todos los personajes de la historia. Me hizo pensar en la esencia del ser humano y lo que debemos apreciar en nuestras vidas.
Y que todos tenemos una chispa para dar en el mundo.
Y que todos tenemos una chispa para dar en el mundo.
People later asked me why I hadn't run away. Why I'd stayed until the end. I told them I'd only done what was easiest for me, the only thing someone who can't feel fear could do.
I love the concept of the story. I thought this novel will tell about Yunjae's forerunners to becoming a psychopath, considering the genre of the novel is mental health. Even though it turns out that this novel is not about psychopaths and serial killers, I still love the concept of the story raised in this novel, which is about Yunjae who cannot feel any emotions because he suffers from Alexithymia.
I like seeing the friendship between Yunjae and Gon, the numb one and the vulnerable one. Their friendship is so cute and adorable. Especially after seeing Gon's efforts to help Yunjae feel his own emotions like fear and anger. But unfortunately, I didn't see many scenes where Gon taught Yunjae about emotions, there were some scenes but not many so i was a little unsatisfied :')
I love the concept of the story. I thought this novel will tell about Yunjae's forerunners to becoming a psychopath, considering the genre of the novel is mental health. Even though it turns out that this novel is not about psychopaths and serial killers, I still love the concept of the story raised in this novel, which is about Yunjae who cannot feel any emotions because he suffers from Alexithymia.
I like seeing the friendship between Yunjae and Gon, the numb one and the vulnerable one. Their friendship is so cute and adorable. Especially after seeing Gon's efforts to help Yunjae feel his own emotions like fear and anger. But unfortunately, I didn't see many scenes where Gon taught Yunjae about emotions, there were some scenes but not many so i was a little unsatisfied :')
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wanted to like this so bad, but I really hated the writing style and didn't connect with or care about the characters at all. Love the concept but the execution fell flat for me :(
Reading Anxious People by Fredrick Bakman put me in such a slump, I haven’t read anything in months. Sense and Sensibility, my secondary book has been in progress since last year and I haven’t read anything since then. That’s when I finally decided to join a book club and get a library card to read more books. It’s free, after all. One of the books which did not have a waitlist there was almond. I dove in blind before going to bed and I got hooked immediately.
Almond is a YA book about a Korean boy who suffers from a disease where his amygdalas in his brain (that he refers to as almonds) are so small and underdeveloped that he can’t feel any emotions. The book narrates in a very first person straightforward - matter of fact way as emotional things happen to him one by one. The book follows his life till he turns 18.
This book brings up questions of what it means to be “ordinary” and “normal”. Why should there be a “right” way to act and react and behave? This book also has themes of friendship and love. It’s thought provoking but a very easy read with super short chapters - making it a perfect pick to get out of a reading slump!
Almond is a YA book about a Korean boy who suffers from a disease where his amygdalas in his brain (that he refers to as almonds) are so small and underdeveloped that he can’t feel any emotions. The book narrates in a very first person straightforward - matter of fact way as emotional things happen to him one by one. The book follows his life till he turns 18.
This book brings up questions of what it means to be “ordinary” and “normal”. Why should there be a “right” way to act and react and behave? This book also has themes of friendship and love. It’s thought provoking but a very easy read with super short chapters - making it a perfect pick to get out of a reading slump!
A warm exploration into the human condition and emotions. I was initially drawn to the concept of a boy who is incapable of experiencing fear, anger, sadness etc even in the face of tragedy. The tragedy I was expecting came early in the book, then it pivoted to an unlikely friendship between two “monsters” who end up learning more about themselves from the traits the other lacks. This was a very easy read filled with quite a few excellent quotes. In the end I was a little let down by the ending. It felt as if it was building up to be this dramatic climax for the story just for the “climax” to last maybe 10 pages and everything to fall together a bit too perfectly. Although I was hoping for more from the ending, this is still a very solid and unique take on the classic coming of age story.
dark
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
i wanted this to be remarkable, truly. it only made me grieve for the children of palestine who will never grow old, the parents who will never write a book after gazing at their newborn baby.
is this how life will always be? this intense despair and rage at the lives so viciously stolen? the unfathomable disdain for anyone who can think of anything else, who can write about anything else?
is this how life will always be? this intense despair and rage at the lives so viciously stolen? the unfathomable disdain for anyone who can think of anything else, who can write about anything else?
“Am I”, she whispered, “qualified to be in your story now?”