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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don't even know how to rate this book because I hated it. Andnthat is just my opinion and my taste. There were some good passage. I felt like it was a boon I would have taken a university course on and then loved it. But I made me hate it even more because I think no book should require a university course to understand it. But this left me closed out and I could on peak through the surface and see a deep lake. For me though the donctor's endless tirades were nothing but tirades with occasional loud splashes into my face. So, no, not for me.
Also, did this even have a plot? I'm still looking for it.
Also, did this even have a plot? I'm still looking for it.
Kräver en del energi pga ganska svårläst språk, men ska definitivt ge den ett till försök i framtiden!
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
So many things I could say, first, what I would give to be a wealthy lesbian transplant in 1920s Paris. Second, Robin, she was feeling very Shane everyday - I appreciated her absence throughout the book it was clear that this was a highly sought after woman and having her out of the picture for most of the novel made her seems even more mysterious, unattainable, and attractive. Next, the doctor, what a character. I love the part where the doctors explains that [they] refer to god as She in retaliation to “the way she made me; it somehow balances the mistake.” there are so many amazing quotes about gender identity by the doctor, “the girl lost, what is she but the prince found?” Love that the doctor is a canonical chismosa. Such great use of characterization to move the plot forward, I really enjoyed the doctor’s final crash out after finally crumbling over the weight of everyone’s gossip collected. The scenes in which the “wronged” lament their pains caused by Robin are excellent dyke dramatics and emotional vampirism and have not changed in the slightest in the last 100 years. Jenny in the carriage losing her mind over Robin speaking to another woman, I mean what sapphic hasn’t been there? Overall, satisfying depiction of lesbianism and gender in the 20s/30s. Sometimes a family is masc lesbian mommy, transgender doctor, lesbian disaster, lesbian disaster, autistic son, liar.
might come back to this one later, might not. i'm not a huge fan of modernist style
nothing compares. this novel is everything and nothing all at once. a heavy meditation on the heartbreaking way lovers possess you, the way that people are built with bones dug up from dreams, the way everything unknown is dressed in golden cloaks. misery, madness, beauty, and suffering is animated by curious arrangements of words that evoke pieces of your own heart that you didn't know were hiding. every sentence is something that both catches you off guard and feels unbearably familiar. to read this novel you must let go of the desire to understand, surrendering completely to the ecstasy of pure response. it tosses you around like a passive object touched by hands that do not write for you but manage to bleed into you anyway. it demands something unusual and helpless in its reader. every page contains multitudes of silvery pleasure-pains that are the biggest truths without explicitly explaining themselves to you. read this.