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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
I’m happy to accept I’m not smart enough for this book, I’m just glad it’s over.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
informative
reflective
slow-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
Nope, not for me. Too much gimmickry which got in the way of the story and coupled with the dark material and pervading grimness just meant that at about 120 pages I gave up
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
sad
tense
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
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"It was that ‘killing him because he liked you’ that caused shivers to go down my
spine. I knew immediately, oh God! It’s true! That is why they killed it! They killed it because it liked them! Turned out that wasn’t why the dog was killed but before I discovered the real reason, absolutely it made sense to me, in the world I was in, that it had happened that way. They killed it because it liked them, because they couldn’t cope with being liked, couldn’t cope with the innocence, frankness, openness, with a defencelessness and an affection and purity so pure, so affectionate, that the dog and its qualities had to be done away with."
Read for Unrequited Love in 2022, rereading my final paper (Like Mother, Like Daughter: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Absence in Milkman) to write a shelf talker for Time and a half <3
"I thought, this is my life and I love you, or maybe I don’t love you, but this is who I am, what I stand for and these are the lines, mother. I didn’t speak this, because I couldn’t have done so without getting into a fight and always we were in fights, always making attack on each other. Instead I closed up, thinking, gee-whizz, gee-whizz, gee-whizz, gee-whizz...I stopped caring too, from that moment, as to whether or not she blamed me. From now on she’d get nothing from me. But was that how it was to be always? Me, according to her, sharp of heart? And her, according to me, ending in nothing but arrowpoints herself?"
spine. I knew immediately, oh God! It’s true! That is why they killed it! They killed it because it liked them! Turned out that wasn’t why the dog was killed but before I discovered the real reason, absolutely it made sense to me, in the world I was in, that it had happened that way. They killed it because it liked them, because they couldn’t cope with being liked, couldn’t cope with the innocence, frankness, openness, with a defencelessness and an affection and purity so pure, so affectionate, that the dog and its qualities had to be done away with."
Read for Unrequited Love in 2022, rereading my final paper (Like Mother, Like Daughter: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Absence in Milkman) to write a shelf talker for Time and a half <3
"I thought, this is my life and I love you, or maybe I don’t love you, but this is who I am, what I stand for and these are the lines, mother. I didn’t speak this, because I couldn’t have done so without getting into a fight and always we were in fights, always making attack on each other. Instead I closed up, thinking, gee-whizz, gee-whizz, gee-whizz, gee-whizz...I stopped caring too, from that moment, as to whether or not she blamed me. From now on she’d get nothing from me. But was that how it was to be always? Me, according to her, sharp of heart? And her, according to me, ending in nothing but arrowpoints herself?"