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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
medium-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:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-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:
Yes
Emily Austin is becoming one of my favorite authors. This book is so, so funny, insightful, and uncomfortable in the best way. I wish I could go back to not having read it and read it again.
“Sometimes when I’m driving, I think about veering into traffic. If I stand near the edge of anything, I think about stepping off. I can’t take a pill, clean with bleach, or use a knife without it occurring to me that I could end it”.
This book checks all of the boxes for me. I laughed out loud a ton listening to the audio and cringed plenty of times when it got too real. The story is all about Gilda, her anxiety-driven decisionmaking, and the wretched coil of existence that she can’t stop pondering. She is hyperfocused on mortality and what it means to be a person; she’s never not consumed by racing thoughts about her place on this floating rock. She is also a hypochondriac and has visited the ER so many times that even the janitor knows her on a first-name basis. But she is also painfully self-aware, and in an attempt to get help, she stumbles into a Catholic church advertising free therapy and accidentally ends up with a job, assuming the identity of both a heterosexual and a believer (you’ll come to realize she has no interest in either of these things).
Gilda is one of my favorite fictional characters ever, and her mind is just as entertaining as it is horrifying to be inside of. Emily Austin for sure gets it and I am all-in on whatever she puts out next. I loved this book SO much.
FFO: feeling personally attacked, laughing until you cry, crying until you laugh, self-awareness of your neuroses, contemporary existentialism <3
CWs: Suicide, addiction, mental illness, death, grief, homophobia
This book checks all of the boxes for me. I laughed out loud a ton listening to the audio and cringed plenty of times when it got too real. The story is all about Gilda, her anxiety-driven decisionmaking, and the wretched coil of existence that she can’t stop pondering. She is hyperfocused on mortality and what it means to be a person; she’s never not consumed by racing thoughts about her place on this floating rock. She is also a hypochondriac and has visited the ER so many times that even the janitor knows her on a first-name basis. But she is also painfully self-aware, and in an attempt to get help, she stumbles into a Catholic church advertising free therapy and accidentally ends up with a job, assuming the identity of both a heterosexual and a believer (you’ll come to realize she has no interest in either of these things).
Gilda is one of my favorite fictional characters ever, and her mind is just as entertaining as it is horrifying to be inside of. Emily Austin for sure gets it and I am all-in on whatever she puts out next. I loved this book SO much.
FFO: feeling personally attacked, laughing until you cry, crying until you laugh, self-awareness of your neuroses, contemporary existentialism <3
CWs: Suicide, addiction, mental illness, death, grief, homophobia
reflective
slow-paced
fast-paced
Did I spend half of the time wanting to shake, kick and scream at her to snap out of the sloth, apathy and constant passivity with which she faced life? Yes.
Did I, the other half, want to hug her and tell her “everything is gonna be alright”? Also yes.
Read the TW, this book really triggered my intrusive thoughts.
Did I, the other half, want to hug her and tell her “everything is gonna be alright”? Also yes.
Read the TW, this book really triggered my intrusive thoughts.
I was hesitant to start this book due to the nature of death, but couldn’t put it down once I started. So many relatable moments that gave me comfort throughout. Being in Gilda’s thoughts made me progressively feel more anxious and uneasy but I also couldn’t stop reading at the same time. One of the most mentally tough but easiest reads if that even makes sense.
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I’ve been aware of my own mortality ever since I was a young child. I remember being as young as 6 and wondering how every one of my peers could live so happily, so carefree, when we would all die eventually. I remember crying and shaking at night and telling my mommy I had a nightmare when in reality I hadn’t even fallen asleep yet, because my mind was filled with thoughts of nothingness. Rotting in a coffin. Bugs eating my skin. Feeling nothing. Seeing nothing. I was always deadly afraid of my own death.
This is exactly the type of thought process the main character goes through. It was comforting, to an extent, but also too real. Made me feel angry at myself. Some people close to me have told me I spent my life being so consumed with the fear of dying I didn’t even notice I wasn’t living at all.
This book read to me exactly like that sentence.
This is exactly the type of thought process the main character goes through. It was comforting, to an extent, but also too real. Made me feel angry at myself. Some people close to me have told me I spent my life being so consumed with the fear of dying I didn’t even notice I wasn’t living at all.
This book read to me exactly like that sentence.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism
Minor: Animal death, Self harm
Gilda is a twenty-something-year-old lesbian who’s a hypochondriac, prone to bouts of depression, and generally doesn’t have much direction. Looking to appease her family, she decides to take a job as a receptionist at a church who are all instantly impressed with her ability to use technology, oh, and may also be prone to a touch of homophobia too. Navigating her new job while... read the full spoiler-free review here: https://www.amysbookshelf.co.uk/2022/08/everyone-in-this-room-will-someday-be-dead-book-review/
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
