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lookatjimmy's review against another edition
4.0
I read this for a book club and had many Thoughts but was such a frazzled mess this month that I completely MISSED THE MEETING DAY and it was genuinely heartbreaking.
Anyhoo, this felt very A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Don’t ask me why or how I have no answers for you.
Anyhoo, this felt very A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Don’t ask me why or how I have no answers for you.
exlibris_asrl's review
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Tove Ditlevsen really said, “ok, here’s my story. do with it as you wish.”
compelling, honest, and written with a certain compulsiveness. i haven’t read a biography equally as powerful without ever trying to be anything other than what it is – an account of a life lived however it panned out.
compelling, honest, and written with a certain compulsiveness. i haven’t read a biography equally as powerful without ever trying to be anything other than what it is – an account of a life lived however it panned out.
bexduck's review
4.0
Finally finished this book! I started reading this in a physical copy but then moved to an audiobook when I knew I didn't have the time to sit down and read it. The prose was stark in a kind of brutalist architecture way. It was a sad look at poverty, addiction, and motherhood. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but I enjoyed it.
guitourinho's review against another edition
5.0
Não sabia o que esperar deste livro, nunca tinha falado da Tove Ditlevsen, e talvez seja o primeiro livro de origem dinamarquesa que tenha lido em minha vida. Fiquei abalado. Triologia é de fato dividido em três partes (que surpresa, né?), e mesmo se passando no século XX, consegui me conectar com a Tove em todas as fases. Obviamente o momento da transição da vida adolescente para vida adulta teve uma conexão forte, mas algumas outras partes como a paixão pela escrita e literatura é impossível não ser tocado. Perdi um pouco da concentração na parte final (Dependência), porém gostei muito da parte final por sua melancolia e depressão. Achei um livro bem honesto por tantos problemas passados.
giamarang's review
5.0
I don’t think Tove’s mastery of language can be understated. In the book she always states that she is a poet, and her prose and story remains beautiful even in translation. I caught myself underlining so many sentences in this trilogy because I found them so astonishing, just because they possessed a beautiful string of words or because they were painfully relatable. Or both. This collection of work is surely a favorite of mine and many others as I have yet to really stumble upon something with such a consistent high rating. And even if you don’t really relate to Tove and her life, I believe you will find something there to pluck out and reflect upon. Reading this trilogy in one singular book supported her magnificent story telling, and I hope others are able to grab a copy for themselves.
pinaybibliophile's review
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Haunting. Honest. Devastating. Tove Ditlevsen's memoir/confessional delves into her childhood with an abusive mother, youth with its fleeting friendships, when her education ended and her joining the workforce began, and adulthood (dependency) when she got married, published her first book, got divorced and remarried, got addicted to demerol and methadone with the help of her mentally ill third husband who was also a doctor, went to rehab, and remarried again. This is a book that will be on my mind for a long time.