Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-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
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-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
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
why are memories always so beautiful?
reread and annotated this book as a gift to a friend who requested tragic love stories; this was how I pitched the book in her birthday card: "this book is such a modern classic and literally has everything (war, romance, lost love, what-could’ves, unreliable narrators, love confessions, yearning, heartbreak, class tensions, star-crossed lovers, coming-of-age, love letters, guilt, delusions, recollections of the past, love, love, and did I mention love?)"
a solid 3.5 (rated it a 4 on my first read) - some parts were a bit of a bore (honestly felt like length-wise this could've been more concise) but the ending was so worth the wait - broke my heart into little pieces, despite knowing the plot already
briony remained a dreamer, a romantic, a delulu girly till the end (no lessons learnt.)
love how she tried to present her self as magnanimous ("a final act of kindness") to conceal the fact that she, once again, hid behind her imagination to save her from confronting the true extent of her actions.
some quotes:
"the truth had become as ghostly as invention"
"how guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime"
"his most sensual memories...were bleached colourless through overuse"
"the truth instructed her eyes"
"the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last year's dead leaves"
"she blinked rapidly as she spoke, dazzled by the momentous truth she had revealed"
"of course, of course."
"to love her was to be soothed"
"falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance."
"aqueous sunlight ripped over the spines of books and the smell of warm dust was everywhere"
also loved the musings about how writers play God - very meta
reread and annotated this book as a gift to a friend who requested tragic love stories; this was how I pitched the book in her birthday card: "this book is such a modern classic and literally has everything (war, romance, lost love, what-could’ves, unreliable narrators, love confessions, yearning, heartbreak, class tensions, star-crossed lovers, coming-of-age, love letters, guilt, delusions, recollections of the past, love, love, and did I mention love?)"
a solid 3.5 (rated it a 4 on my first read) - some parts were a bit of a bore (honestly felt like length-wise this could've been more concise) but the ending was so worth the wait - broke my heart into little pieces, despite knowing the plot already
briony remained a dreamer, a romantic, a delulu girly till the end (no lessons learnt.)
love how she tried to present her self as magnanimous ("a final act of kindness") to conceal the fact that she, once again, hid behind her imagination to save her from confronting the true extent of her actions.
some quotes:
"the truth had become as ghostly as invention"
"how guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime"
"his most sensual memories...were bleached colourless through overuse"
"the truth instructed her eyes"
"the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last year's dead leaves"
"she blinked rapidly as she spoke, dazzled by the momentous truth she had revealed"
"of course, of course."
"to love her was to be soothed"
"falling in love could be achieved in a single word - a glance."
"aqueous sunlight ripped over the spines of books and the smell of warm dust was everywhere"
also loved the musings about how writers play God - very meta
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
mysterious
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes