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Atheists Who Kneel and Pray by Tarryn Fisher

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Ngl this whole story was like a drunk sarcastic man who exaggerates and romanticise everything and then gets knock down by real life

If you give a random object to a person who is searching for something they would create their own meaning around it, and that meaning would reflect the deepest desire of their heart
It is the first time I genuinely have no idea how to rate this book. On one hand the writing was exquisite and had such an impactful tone with simple words, on the other hand I despised the main character and for most of the time I couldn't sympathise with her or her decisions even with our shared mother issues.  She was an asshole and not in a funny and quirky way. She really went out of her way to hurt people. Like I absolutely love my characters with a dangerous and violent edge (bonus points if it's a woman like Jude and the mc of one night only by Catherine Walsh) but there has to be build up and reason for it AND the people she hurts should be deserving or a result of wrong choices and if her character development would've been done in a a more progressive way rather than a botched unpredictable curve on steroids, it'd have been more believable and realistic. She admits her wrongdoings almost always but has some kind of epiphany at 93% mark and that's it. Wham bam done. How am I supposed to believe her now. SO MANY INCONSISTENCIES

Forgiveness is to keep your heart soft. To move forward without bitterness. Forgiveness is for you.

It was marketed as romance but it's so much of women's fiction.

 As you age, your propensity to love changes and evolves with your personality. You gain in either selfishness or selflessness

I also have no idea how to pace this because so much happens plot wise but with no build-up (which wasn't necessarily bad thing since the tone of the book was exactly that. The MC was unpredictable, just like book but had no excitement for it,  had an eventful life but that became monotonous which was also reflected in the writing style)

love was just a word until someone gave it a definition

I loved the subtle nuances and parallels and all the romanticism of this otherworldly and yet ordinary story.
Once your faith, it was gone.

not believing in God was a defense mechanism against human suffering. It’s easier to say nothing exists than to say something exists and He just lets us suffer.
As an atheist I felt seen in that respect and I loved it.

DO YOU SEE MY DILEMMA!?!?!

And oh, also the only time I liked her was this time
I won’t be taking loaners from someone who desecrates bookshelves.

David *dreamy sigh* David lisey is IT
“I don’t have a physical type.” He shrugged. “Is that what you were looking for?” 
“Yes, as a matter of fact I was.” 
“I like smart women, English. Cultured women. Funny women. Kind women. I like that type in every color and size.”
 I liked that.

There were some really problematic things which I'm just gonna leave--

you know how women are. Always offering and when something is right there, men usually take it.

Girls like Petra undermined the process. They made us feel dumpy and plain. They perhaps made our boyfriend think we’re dumpy and plain. Who knows?

 Have you ever thought these might be your insecurities speaking. No huh, guess not

Men did that, treated female fawning like it wasn’t a thing, like a woman couldn’t lure them away with cunning and pussy. They could. I’d done it myself a time or two.

When a woman introduces her new boyfriend to her female friend, the friend will not think—I want a man like that, but rather, I want that very man

I wanted to break a man’s heart for his art. Rip his belief system to shreds so he’d have to rebuild it. And that was the thing about a scorned artist, wasn’t it? Their new medium was you. Just ask Bukowski, ask Plath, ask Taylor Swift whose blood they used for ink. David was going to hate me for the rest of his life. But, he was going to make beautiful music

What is it about me getting Taylor swift references in books with wrong context ughhu (last I read it in starfish and red white and royal blue)

there is no way I’d date me. If I were a man I’d date another man. Men cry less than women

Not this shaming and internalised sexism..


PS When  am I gonna get my David who will upgrade me from CYNIC to LITTLE LESS CYNIC
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