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All Fours

Miranda July

3.69 AVERAGE

emotional informative medium-paced
adventurous emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don’t think this was the book for me but I didn’t hate it! While I appreciated the visibility on this stage of life for women and the complicated emotions that accompany it, I felt like it was weird on purpose in ways that did not land. The most moving part of the book was when
she asked her friends what the best part of going through menopause was there were so many responses I’d never thought of,
and I think that scene is my takeaway from this book. I’d like for it to be that and not
the tampon scene
hahaha.
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emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced
adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Almost fell off of this book around the middle, but I’m glad I hung on as for me the themes didn’t come into view until the second half of the book. It was vibrant, engaging, wild, and offered a very unique view into a standard trope (the mid-life crisis). I had come off of a series of books that I felt ‘didn’t go for it’ , this book definitely ‘goes for it’.