3.9 AVERAGE

dark informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I support women’s wrongs.


“The vertigo of scale (the space between a photon and me and a star) is a foretaste of death.”

Oh so you get me existential crises.

A book fascinated with time in a way I haven’t figured out. Mildred’s section feels like it’s meant to be the present and I wonder if it’s because she has no future. Although he labeled her section futures. Other sections seem obsessed with the past. Diaz brings up multiple times the way the future hijacks the present: “wanting to actualize itself in every decision we make.” But why use the story of a financier and his wife to explore this or vice versa?

Is he fascinated in the way finance does create our material realities?
mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Diverse cast of characters: No
hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging informative reflective slow-paced
challenging mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated