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rubyhosh's review against another edition
4.25
Minor: Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Infertility
yoursam's review against another edition
4.0
It baffles me that often songs and poems are written about love at first sight: those who claim to experience the phenomena have preened themselves, ready for love. There is nothing extraordinary about that. Childhood friendship, much more fatal, simply happens.
the book of goose is sort of about that. but, more specifically, it's about why it's all so painful. it's about the before, the lead up. it's about teenage girls and how intense their relationships can be. possessive, obsessive. teenage girls that are sometimes not as likeable as most want them to be, with their ugly urges and ugly wants.
But I had loved her all my life. I had loved her before we knew what the world was, what love was, and who we ourselves were.
alright rambling (and praise for this part of the book) aside, there are some things i didn't particularly love. not stuff that i hated, mind you, just things that brought down my enjoyment.
How could Fabienne and I have been fair to him when we were young? How could we have been fair to anyone but ourselves?
last thing actually, while i love the title i do believe there might have been better ones for this particular story in the text itself <3 then again what do i know about choosing a book title lmao
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Animal cruelty, Death, Racism, War, and Terminal illness
none of the content warnings are spoilers for the book, i promise. and everything is dealt with that kind of teenage ease; throwaway lines and the idea of some stuff just being 'a part of life'.deerlordxx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Death and Child death
heatherjchin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death and Child death
Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Bullying
Minor: Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Classism, Blood, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Sexual assault
hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition
4.0
In a small, rural town of France, two girls, Agnès and Fabienne, create their own private worlds. Fabienne—willful, unruly, and unsettling to all but Agnès—dreams up games and imaginary experiences that reality can’t hold, and Agnès follows along dutifully and with a strange obsessiveness. Eventually, Fabienne dreams up a new game, writing a book filled with morbid tales, a game that will have startling effects in the real world and send Agnès on a whirlwind adventure based upon deceit and lies.
I loved Li’s different portrayals of exploitation. There’s exploitation of children by adults, both by the public and in private. There’s exploitation of children by children. And there’s also the exploitation of cold, cold reality on childlike dreams—a coming-of-age, you can say, or the most terrible way to realize that magic and happy endings and the complete freedom to stretch out are never real.
Pick up if you’re interested in sharp psychological unravelings, a strong narrative voice, and perhaps Ishiguro’s THE REMAINS OF THE DAY.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Child death and War