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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
out of stubbornness i’m not going to rate this right now but i will come back to it when i’m woker about modern french literature
purée, plus ça va, plus je me dis que c’était vraiment qualitatif et bg finalement
An evocative and scenic tour through Hadrian's life.
I honestly do not know what to say about this book. The Memoirs of Hadrian is one of those rare and miraculous books that are a larger than life, and yet so personal and intimate.
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Antinous
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A slow but absolutely fulfilling read. The antidote to our fast paced lives. Philosophy, history, life lessons.
When she was 12, Marguerite de Crayencour and her father sat down to figure out her pen name, something that would look good on the cover of a book, and settled on Yourcenar. She came up with the idea for Memoirs of Hadrian when she was 20, and finished it when she was 48, later saying that some books you can only write past the age of 40. You can tell that decades of work have gone into it—it is thorough, precise, beautiful, unlike anything I have read before. Being a letter from Emperor Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius on his deathbed detailing his life, it is dense. It took me a couple weeks of sustained effort to read, but it was so well worth it. Truly an incredible book.