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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Repetitive and even mind-numbing, but purposely so. I took a while to read this book despite it being fairly short because I needed to feel immersed in it anew each time I read.
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Didn’t realize until the end that this book was not just set in the 1950s but was written during that time period which made me appreciate it slightly more. But overall i found it a bit boring and repetitive, luckily it was a short read.
I find books like this so fascinating. How does a book with such minimal plot keep you hooked? Although on the surface a book of a woman maintaining her animals and self, when you look deeply into its criticism of capitalism, the patriarchy and how bogged down we get in materialism. What struck me so much is our lack of ability to think freely, and that once pretty much everything is taken from us, we can see. Also, the intentionality of it being a man that destroys things - shock. Feel fantastically forward for a book written in 1963.
girl, the wall is not a story—it’s an atmosphere.
a woman trapped by an invisible barrier, left with just a dog, some cows, and the wild.
no drama, no escape plan—just raw, slow loneliness that feels like it’s swallowing the whole world.
haushofer writes like she’s peeling back layers of your own skin—soft, quiet, but unshakable.
this book is a love letter to solitude and survival, and it wrecked me.
a woman trapped by an invisible barrier, left with just a dog, some cows, and the wild.
no drama, no escape plan—just raw, slow loneliness that feels like it’s swallowing the whole world.
haushofer writes like she’s peeling back layers of your own skin—soft, quiet, but unshakable.
this book is a love letter to solitude and survival, and it wrecked me.
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
My journey with this book as the reader felt similar to the narrator. Isolating and withstanding. I felt the timeline of the report become loose and jumbled as I think our narrator's own recollections did. How long have we been here? How long has this been life? It's a cold book but I felt connected to her loneliness.
I thought the way she explained no longer feeling as an individual but as a small part of the whole. Even as she seems to be completely alone. Not a book I'd recommend to a lot of people but interesting nevertheless.
I thought the way she explained no longer feeling as an individual but as a small part of the whole. Even as she seems to be completely alone. Not a book I'd recommend to a lot of people but interesting nevertheless.
informative
reflective
slow-paced