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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-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
This is still the most accurate depiction of depression I have ever read. It isn’t always overwhelming sadness or sorrow; it is often just a gray nothingness, an absence of feeling. It is one hour following the next in a seemingly endless line.
Content Warnings
Minor: Suicide
Honestly a really good book, just almost to detailed writing where I was confused and didn’t know what I was reading for the first bit. But honestly a great dive into a day into three women’s lives, and the analysis of the “hours” that go into these days, bringing dread, hope, hopelessness, and a whole mix of emotions. It looks at all the little things of life, and seeing women look back on their lives brings good questions for the reader on how they might view their own hours.
Now that Ik what’s going on, I think I second read/annotating would be worth it to see the hints throughout.
Now that Ik what’s going on, I think I second read/annotating would be worth it to see the hints throughout.
“I just feel so sad. What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted to create something alive and shocking enough that it could stand beside a morning in somebody’s life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that. What foolishness.”
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wanted to love this but had such a hard time getting through it! I think reading it immediately after Mrs Dalloway did it a disservice because although the writing style was supposed to be paying homage to Woolf, I found it a little too copycat in a way that often fell really flat for me. I liked the way the stories connected but idk something about a man writing about three sad and "misunderstood" women who all want to kill themselves just kind of rubbed me the wrong way??? Mostly because with three stories in only 200 pages there just isn't time or space to give any of the women the depth that they needed. I know this literally won the Pulitzer so maybe I'm missing something but eh!!!
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death
i dont want to bare my soul too much in a goodreads review so lets just say that mrs dalloway will haunt me to the end of time
I watched the movie before I read the book, which I don't usually do. However, the book was even more surprising even though I subconsciously knew what would happen. Cunningham does a great job of unraveling a story so deeply caught in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and the characters are so unbelievably described that you feel as if they are already in your life somehow. Cunningham also writes so vividly about the lives of these three women and captures them exactly, just as the actors in the movie do. You'll never want to put it down.