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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
I wouldn't recommend this book necessarily. It wasn't bad, in fact the way it was written was interesting. However, the way it was written was also confusing and there were too many subplots going on. The end of the book only really wrapped up one issue that was brought up and lazily solved another one. A decently short read but it took me a while to want to get through it. *shrug*
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-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
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
“One day I am going to die,” my internal dialogue asserts. That reality reverberates in my skull like a shriek in a cave. I am going to experience whatever it feels like for my life force to finish. Face it. Whatever animates my body will stop. Black. Nothing. That isn’t just some alarming scary-movie fear; it’s true. People will have to deal with my corpse.”
As someone with anxiety and OCD, this book felt like a glimpse into my own mind. I am obssesed with death, not in an existencialist way althought I think i may be, but in an OCD-i cant live normally somedays im so consummed with thoughts of death i forget to live- way. Gilda is me, and i think many of us are like her.
“There are a lot of things on earth that I think would be considered magic if they weren’t real. Dreaming, for example. The fact that babies are created inside of women’s bodies; the whole concept of conception. Castles. Trees. Whales. Lions. Birds. Rainbows. Water. The northern lights. Volcanos. Lightning. Fire.”
It's funny, the people that struggle the most with life are often the people that find it most magical and beautiful, the people that find magic in trees and in animals and in existing. So why is existing so hard? i dont know. i wish i did, but i also know it is my greatest honour, being a human on this earth. Honestly, reading this book felt kind of weird. I never realized the amount of little things i do because of my anxiety, props to the author for being able to point them out because when this is something that you live with, its really hard to realize not everyone lives and process the world like you do. Emily Austin has an outstand grasp of humanity and our behaviours.
this being said, this book felt like taking a look at my own brain, so many of gilda's intrusive thoughts are my own, and it doesn't feel good to think about them, you know what i mean? Like maybe on this particular day i was really happy and now im reading a book that reminds me of all the things i feel anxious about and now im also anxious. There is a comfort in seeing yourself in page like this, but it is also like, not entirely good, at least for me.
Great book overall, i love gilda so much ♥️.
“Other times I fixate on how endearing people are. We sleep on soft surfaces; we like to be cozy. When I see cats cuddled up on pillows, I find it sweet; we are like that too. We like to eat cookies and smell flowers. We wear mittens and hats. We visit our families even when we’re old. We like to pet dogs. We laugh; we make involuntary sounds when we find things funny. Laughing is adorable, if you really think about it. We have hospitals . We invented buildings meant to help repair people. Doctors and nurses study for years to work here. They come here every day just to patch other people up. If we discovered some other animal who created infrastructure in the anticipation that their little animal peers might get hurt, we would all be absolutely moved and amazed.”
As someone with anxiety and OCD, this book felt like a glimpse into my own mind. I am obssesed with death, not in an existencialist way althought I think i may be, but in an OCD-i cant live normally somedays im so consummed with thoughts of death i forget to live- way. Gilda is me, and i think many of us are like her.
“There are a lot of things on earth that I think would be considered magic if they weren’t real. Dreaming, for example. The fact that babies are created inside of women’s bodies; the whole concept of conception. Castles. Trees. Whales. Lions. Birds. Rainbows. Water. The northern lights. Volcanos. Lightning. Fire.”
It's funny, the people that struggle the most with life are often the people that find it most magical and beautiful, the people that find magic in trees and in animals and in existing. So why is existing so hard? i dont know. i wish i did, but i also know it is my greatest honour, being a human on this earth. Honestly, reading this book felt kind of weird. I never realized the amount of little things i do because of my anxiety, props to the author for being able to point them out because when this is something that you live with, its really hard to realize not everyone lives and process the world like you do. Emily Austin has an outstand grasp of humanity and our behaviours.
this being said, this book felt like taking a look at my own brain, so many of gilda's intrusive thoughts are my own, and it doesn't feel good to think about them, you know what i mean? Like maybe on this particular day i was really happy and now im reading a book that reminds me of all the things i feel anxious about and now im also anxious. There is a comfort in seeing yourself in page like this, but it is also like, not entirely good, at least for me.
Great book overall, i love gilda so much ♥️.
“Other times I fixate on how endearing people are. We sleep on soft surfaces; we like to be cozy. When I see cats cuddled up on pillows, I find it sweet; we are like that too. We like to eat cookies and smell flowers. We wear mittens and hats. We visit our families even when we’re old. We like to pet dogs. We laugh; we make involuntary sounds when we find things funny. Laughing is adorable, if you really think about it. We have hospitals . We invented buildings meant to help repair people. Doctors and nurses study for years to work here. They come here every day just to patch other people up. If we discovered some other animal who created infrastructure in the anticipation that their little animal peers might get hurt, we would all be absolutely moved and amazed.”
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes