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Ein wenig Leben by Hanya Yanagihara

608 reviews

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

my heart has shattered into a million pieces and i am patching it back together like a jigsaw puzzle. this book will wrench your heart so deeply yet make you overflow with love - you will want to love so deeply and appreciate every beautiful thing that comes your way. jude st francis, i love you i love you i love you. i love my friends i love my family i love my home i love the mundane moments of existence. im so glad life didn’t end at 18 when I thought it would, im so excited to grow old. 
“I try to be kind to everything, and in everything that I see, I see him”. 

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challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

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emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I think this book is beautifully written but this book is wholly tragic and feels to be a burden of misery. At some times it feels irresponsible in its depiction and unnecessary. I struggled to look through the words to find the meaning, it was gut wrenching and through all the literature I’ve read in my life, this was far too much for me. Again an amazing writer but I can’t even imagine what was edited out of this book and how we arrived here. 

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DID NOT FINISH: 36%

brother look at the content warnings and you’ll see why

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

why would HK write this. i loved this book and was destroyed by this book; i have never EVER reacted so emotionally to literature. i cried, i sobbed, i gagged, i had to remove myself to take a beat before continuing to read. i loved this book so dearly and grew so attached to the characters. i also will never recommend this book to anyone!!!! i will always ALWAYS think about jude and willem and harold and andy. i will always remember how malcom looked out for jude before jude looked out for himself, and JBs art that always had jude as the main muse. 

a little life was so unexpectedly dark and explicit. i don’t think that it is meant to be just trauma on trauma on trauma but a commentary about how trauma doesn’t always make people the best versions of themselves during the healing process. sometimes the healing process hurts the victim as it hurt jude. reading this book was like screaming for help for the characters but nobody hearing you. it was like watching a train crash and being helpless to do anything but watch. the writing was beautiful and didn’t feel “slow” to me because everything everything everything was in there for a reason. it is meant to immerse you in their world and crush you when it’s over. i loved this book!! don’t read it!! 

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i understand the trauma porn critiques but i love it

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Such a traumatic read

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this book permanently altered the way thay I think about myself and the people around me that I care about. cannot recommend it more!

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