Reviews - Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Emily Austin

3.99 AVERAGE

mariacirillo's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I called the “twist” from the start but still enjoyed. Laughed out loud in parts, sobbed in others. I’ve come a long way in my mental health but still probably related *too* much to Gilda.

Content Warnings

hannahwinston's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Diverse cast of characters: No

Man, I loved this book. I know it’s dark, the main character is unlikable to most people, and a lot of people probably don’t like thinking about how everyone is going to die, but I love all of these things.

The story structure (sections/passage of time through Catholic holidays, the realistic jumping between between things happening in real time to her drifting in thought to totally popping up somewhere else in real time and how much worse it got as her psychosis got worse) and the writing (so funny, so relatable) were so great. I even loved the semi murder mystery woven throughout (though the “twist” was predictable.)

Highly recommend to fellow depressed girlies who are constantly thinking about the tiny speck of dust our lives are in the context of everything.

Here are some of my favorite lines:

“"It's likely a panic attack, then," the man explains. "Do you have

issues with anxiety?"

"Apparently," I say, the pain in my chest easing slightly.

"Do you have anyone you can talk to about that?" the man asks

me after a quiet moment passes.

"I have you," I say.

He laughs.”

“I feel chained to my bed.

I kick my legs until my blankets unchain me. I muster all the

strength stored in the caverns of my body to stand up.”

“This office reminds me of my bedroom when I was nine and obsessed with sea turtles, except Jeff is obsessed with crucifixes. I had a turtle bed set, turtle posters, and turtle stuffed animals. Jeff has a mixed-media gallery wall behind his desk with a wooden cross, a gold cross, a ceramic cross, and framed photos of crosses. There is a cross-shaped candy dish in front of me that contains dusty Werther's Originals, and a dirty coffee mug with a renaissance painting on it of Jesus holding-you guessed it—a cross.”

“"You have a classic case of impostor syndrome."

I told her that I'm not sure that's a real syndrome. I said I wonder if everyone's an impostor. What if beneath every lawyer's suit and every stay-at-home-parent's apron, everyone is just a baby who doesn't know what they're doing? I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they've morphed into.”

“The church finally paid me. I went to a café to celebrate with a coffee; however, I discovered that all the money I took out and put in my wallet is missing. I am starting to doubt my atheism because this might be proof that God exists and hates me.”

“Yikes. Thank God this one doesn't seem to apply to women either.

I'm disappointed God is so homophobic that he forgot about lesbians, but I guess I would rather be forgotten than put to death.

Wait. Would I?

Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourself. I

am the LORD.

I pull the sleeve of my arm down over my wrist, where I have tattooed a small question mark. Finally, a sin I'm subject to.”

“Everyone who is watching them starts tearing up. She bellows that she cannot imagine being in a happier place than sitting beside him on their ratty sofa. The crowd coos in approval. She howls that she wants to grow old and gray beside him while he grows old and gray beside her.

I eye her dress and then zero in on all the flowers in the room. I think about how much it cost these people to stand in this room to make noises with their mouths at each other.”

“"That's nice of you to remember something I said," I manage to spit out, heat pounding off my face while I try to veil the black bile I feel boiling inside me.

I find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people. I feel like I am falling through space and Eleanor just threw me a rose. It's such a sweet, pointless gesture. It would be less devastating to fall through space alone, without someone else falling next to me.

Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.

She beams. "Of course I remember the things you say."“

“When I got home, I gave the fries to Eli with no explanation.

"Oh... thank you," he said cautiously, evidently confused by the

gesture.

I bought them with the intention of eating them myself. I asked myself, "Is there anything I want right now?" and then answered "fries." I therefore decided to buy the fries instead of killing myself because that seemed logical. You shouldn't kill yourself when you still want to eat.

I then allowed myself to think too deeply about stealing the car, backing into a light post, and considering killing myself, and then what? and then what? and then what?—and then I thought: Eli might like to have a bag of fries.”

“I have chosen happiness. Out of all the emotions set out on the table, I have selected it. It is by far the superior option. It’s insane to think I would have ever picked one of those shittier emotions before—when all the while, I could have chosen shiny, shimmering iridescent happiness.

I am ready to feel happy, universe. Lay it on me.

***

I am still waiting for the happiness I chose to kick in.”

Content Warnings

howlinglonewolf2222's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book had me laughing for real. The MC is really something. She's odd, but she on the other hand she really has the right idea.

tastyhibiscus's review against another edition

2.0

emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The main character was likable and I sympathized with her struggles. Overall the book was quite boring and predictable, though it did make me laugh here and there.