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4.13 AVERAGE
challenging
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emotional
reflective
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challenging
emotional
funny
medium-paced
I reread this for the first time in two years, for an essay I’m writing in my English class. I think that going into it a second time, as an older and more mature person helped me see it from a different angle. Although some of the archaisms and references to Proust confused me, I still loved this book. Can’t wait to explore it further in my essay!
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
dark
reflective
fast-paced
#35 on the NYTIMES 100 Best Books of the 21st Century List
This is a heavy read. It’s a book about identity, memory, abuse, and the open secrets that families can find too difficult to talk to each other about.
My favourite part of the book was its structure. Fun Home is not told in chronological order. It’s told in 7 chapters that gradually uncover more and more about the author’s challenging relationship with her father. The structure is similar to a nesting doll.
It reminded me a lot of the documentary Capturing the Friedmans. I say that as a bit of a warning. If you find it too upsetting to read stories about suicide, child abuse, and other difficult subjects, you may want to avoid this one.
Bechdel is particularly good at showing how kids are much more perceptive than the adults around them give them credit for. I was fortunate to be raised in a happy and loving household, but I definitely remember times as a kid when adults would mention things around me as if I was too young to take it in or understand what was being said. Kids don’t like being underestimated, so these are usually the moments that they never forget. Bechdel captures that.
This is a heavy read. It’s a book about identity, memory, abuse, and the open secrets that families can find too difficult to talk to each other about.
My favourite part of the book was its structure. Fun Home is not told in chronological order. It’s told in 7 chapters that gradually uncover more and more about the author’s challenging relationship with her father. The structure is similar to a nesting doll.
It reminded me a lot of the documentary Capturing the Friedmans. I say that as a bit of a warning. If you find it too upsetting to read stories about suicide, child abuse, and other difficult subjects, you may want to avoid this one.
Bechdel is particularly good at showing how kids are much more perceptive than the adults around them give them credit for. I was fortunate to be raised in a happy and loving household, but I definitely remember times as a kid when adults would mention things around me as if I was too young to take it in or understand what was being said. Kids don’t like being underestimated, so these are usually the moments that they never forget. Bechdel captures that.
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
funny
fast-paced
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced