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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i liked it because it was entertaining for the most part. but the ending fell flat.
also, omg, sarah pissed me off so much 😀
i also had some passages i enjoyed and underlined.
for example:
also, omg, sarah pissed me off so much 😀
i also had some passages i enjoyed and underlined.
for example:
The meaninglessness of it all washes over me again, another intoxicating wave, the floor opening beneath me. Isn’t this what you wanted? No. When I was a child my mom used to tell me that life was like a game, and sometimes you had to do things you didn’t want to do in order to do the things that you did want to do. I always thought this was strange advice. I only ever had brief and fleeting ideas for things that I wanted to do, but mostly I felt completely overwhelmed by possibilities, and then just went down the list saying no, no, no, not that, not that, until I was playing this idiot’s game of racking up things I was doing that I didn’t want to do in service of some imaginary thing I might one day stumble upon.
3.5 - Like Severance and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I oscillate between contempt for upper middle class girls with parents who pay for all their crap and commiseration with the millennial malaise we all suffer from.
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reading this was a unique form of self-torture. This is a claustrophobic, depressing, and acidic novel. Millie is all the worst imaginary versions of myself, the versions I fear the most, rolled into one detestable character. Perhaps even worse than this is the intercepting chapters from outside perspectives, where we see exactly how transparent Millie’s attempts to appear normal are. Made me feel sick and sad and like I wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out.
Millie is evidently depressed, but she is also not a nice person. She has such a fascinating mix of self-hatred and delusional self-confidence that it makes you doubt every single aspect of the novel. I wanted her to get out of her cyclical spiral almost as much as I wanted to leave her to her pity. I also really want to clean her flat… and do her job and fix her whole life, but do I have the motivation to do that for myself? Its a confrontation of one of many potential bleak futures that I was not in the right place to be having.
Millie is evidently depressed, but she is also not a nice person. She has such a fascinating mix of self-hatred and delusional self-confidence that it makes you doubt every single aspect of the novel. I wanted her to get out of her cyclical spiral almost as much as I wanted to leave her to her pity. I also really want to clean her flat… and do her job and fix her whole life, but do I have the motivation to do that for myself? Its a confrontation of one of many potential bleak futures that I was not in the right place to be having.
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i enjoyed the narrator’s voice and her musings on capitalism, the mundanity of work, and privilege. it captures the feeling of ennui well and the humour was well executed. however it did feel slightly underdeveloped in various aspects and i just wish it had gone further.
Started off strong, but ended embarrassingly weak. Millie, a bitter, claustrophobic, depressed carrier of middle-class female rage reeked of My Year of Rest and Relaxation vibes. This, obvs, is a good thing, but Butler let the tea simmer cold and while that was a deliberate style choice, it wasn't for me. Left wanting more... which , come to think of it, is the whole point of the book. Life gets a generous 3 stars too.
Wow what an amazing book. I’m always surprised when my favorite books end up being rated lower than I expect. This book is sassy and funny, and a great example of the endless feeling of living in a capitalist society, A non functioning society, an unsympathetic society. Very relatable and just had me laughing out loud but also sad, in a good-ish way.
This book is the My Year of Rest and Relaxation WANTS to be. Satirical and sprinkled with dark humor. If you like character-focused books that will make you shake your fist at capitalism, you will love The New Me.
It was readable but not necessarily life changing in the genre of white women who need to get their shit together but can’t
I enjoyed many of the narrator's observations.
Often this novel seemed the perfect Millenial counterpart to Coupland's 'Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture' ~
Often this novel seemed the perfect Millenial counterpart to Coupland's 'Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture' ~