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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
yars_reading_corner's review against another edition
4.0
A beautifully written semi-autobiography about inner struggles, personal growth and Elif’s experiences with maturing on her own pace and turn regardless of her gender and societal pressure to hurry up with the process.
About her inner conflicts with The Choir of Discordant Voices on sacrificing motherhood for excelling at her career or vise versa, not resorting to people, but to books and the voices of previous authors (women if you must know) and their experiences from their works or their diaries, and how she found her way.
An amazing read overall! You see a lot of the characters and events from her books later on that pay homage to her personal path and experiences mentioned in this beautiful work of art.
About her inner conflicts with The Choir of Discordant Voices on sacrificing motherhood for excelling at her career or vise versa, not resorting to people, but to books and the voices of previous authors (women if you must know) and their experiences from their works or their diaries, and how she found her way.
An amazing read overall! You see a lot of the characters and events from her books later on that pay homage to her personal path and experiences mentioned in this beautiful work of art.
servane_m's review against another edition
5.0
Interesting window into Elif's world. I appreciated discovering the thumbelinas, especially reading this right after "No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55384168-no-bad-parts
Serendipitous to put some context around the theme.
:-)
Serendipitous to put some context around the theme.
:-)
reem7_rory's review against another edition
4.0
I think I met the book which could change my thoughts. I see it’s such an important book that every woman should read.
aladhouib's review against another edition
2.0
Serious topic, silly writing. The thumbelinas ruined the book. But I did enjoy reading some parts otherwise it would’ve gotten 0 stars…
apauliner's review against another edition
Je reste un peu sur le banc de touche de ce livre. Je n’ai pas accroché aux scènes fantastiques qui décrivent les différentes facettes de la personnalité de l’autrice comme des femmes miniatures avec leur habillement, leurs habitudes propres, et les dialogues qui s’ensuivent avec la narratrice. Peut-être un peu trop fantasque. Je n’ai pas non plus aimé tous les passages biographiques d’autrices, j’en ai passés certains sans complexe (flemme de lire encore sur de Beauvoir ou sur Ayn Rand…). J’aurais aimé que ce soit plus simplement un récit de l’expérience de l’autrice, car ces passages – et ils sont nombreux – sont fascinants, profonds et beaux. Depuis le rejet de la maternité jusqu’à réconcilier toutes ses facettes en passant pour le mariage et la dépression post-partum, ça j’ai profondément aimé le lire, mais le plaisir a été un peu gâché par les autres moments qui m’ont semblé très longs et pas toujours éclairants ni utiles.
ms_tiahmarie's review against another edition
- Did I exit from my depression and then start writing this book? Or did I complete the book and in that way manage to crawl out of the tunnel? The truth is, I cannot tell. -
- There is a poem [Sylvia Plath] wrote titled "I Want, I want." The central figure is a God=like baby who is yet to be born. Immense, bald and openmouthed, this is not a cute, angelic baby who coos and smiles but a powerful natural force that wishes to be given absolute love, attention and loyalty, and in the end, gets them. It is a baby that wants to *be*. The poet uses a volcano as the symbol of feminine fertility - the ability to breed, broaden and bear life within. But a volcano is also a dangerous and destructive force. -
- Men live without ever feeling the need to change their family names. Their credentials are given to them at birth...As for women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads...-
- Yet, worrying about the permission to tell the story - be it personal or familial - is particular to women writers around the world. -
- First, I convinced myself that I had forgotten how to write. Then I started suspecting that writing had forgotten me. -
- There is a poem [Sylvia Plath] wrote titled "I Want, I want." The central figure is a God=like baby who is yet to be born. Immense, bald and openmouthed, this is not a cute, angelic baby who coos and smiles but a powerful natural force that wishes to be given absolute love, attention and loyalty, and in the end, gets them. It is a baby that wants to *be*. The poet uses a volcano as the symbol of feminine fertility - the ability to breed, broaden and bear life within. But a volcano is also a dangerous and destructive force. -
- Men live without ever feeling the need to change their family names. Their credentials are given to them at birth...As for women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads...-
- Yet, worrying about the permission to tell the story - be it personal or familial - is particular to women writers around the world. -
- First, I convinced myself that I had forgotten how to write. Then I started suspecting that writing had forgotten me. -
biancam89's review against another edition
4.0
Uitasem cat de mult imi place cum scrie Elif Shafak. De data asta intr-o relatare personala, autobiografica chiar, despre conditia scriitoarei in fata deciziei de a fi sau nu mama si felul in care aceasta a depasit depresia postnatala.
Motivul recurent al haremului interior e o metafora atat de faina si aplicabila pentru fiecare femeie, as putea zice aproape ca este un tutorial despre cum functioneaza femeia secolului XXI.
Motivul recurent al haremului interior e o metafora atat de faina si aplicabila pentru fiecare femeie, as putea zice aproape ca este un tutorial despre cum functioneaza femeia secolului XXI.