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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
reflective
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
This books is so damn good man. The book is infinitely long yet only 190 pages. Every single page has a sentence that made me freak out. Lispector’s mc GH attempts to get at the “thing” or the neutral which is essential to our being. Life is beautiful, and by life it is meant that everything is beautiful, because everything is alive. To have disgust in anything, even the white goop coming out of a dying cockroach is to commit sin, because it is life and life is truly neutral. Perhaps it is hell to understand this neutral, to chase this neutral, to be enamored by it. But this hell is paradise as life is. We attempt to understand and be able to express what we are, what our existence is, and how we should live life. Yet this is futile as all we can know about who we are is the fact that we are. The meaning of our existence is found in that bit that you can’t express, the number between one and two, the not between two notes, the infinite silence in between an instant. We cannot understand our existence, therefore we should adore it.
Encounter and epiphany.
Because it was going to end, it weighed tremulous beneath the very weight of its ending already in itself.
The revelation of love is a revelation of neediness.
Our hands that are coarse and full of words.
Because it was going to end, it weighed tremulous beneath the very weight of its ending already in itself.
The revelation of love is a revelation of neediness.
Our hands that are coarse and full of words.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
This crazy bitch is queening out the whole time in such an esoteric way that I had no clue what was going on but god the writing is so good you just want to bathe in it
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
4.5/5
started SO strong!!! i found it dragged a little near the 2/3 mark, but also i might just have been a bit too exhausted from work while reading a majority of this. the way she describes the roach is so vile and visceral that it feels like you are in the room with her. i loved that in the end, it became less about the roach and more about life and overcoming trauma (at least that’s how i interpreted it). the main character is someone who is fearful of facing herself— she spends a large part of the book talking to an invisible lover. she asks them to take her hand to lead her towards the parts of herself she can’t bear to face on her own. her slamming the wardrobe door on the roach represents an event she can no longer come back from. she can’t leave the room because she has already familiarized herself with what is within it, and she cannot afford to turn her back on it any longer. it’s what happens when you have a strong moment of clarity— a barbaric sense of right from wrong. a meeting of self. such a strong metaphor that will definitely stick with me for a long time.
started SO strong!!! i found it dragged a little near the 2/3 mark, but also i might just have been a bit too exhausted from work while reading a majority of this. the way she describes the roach is so vile and visceral that it feels like you are in the room with her. i loved that in the end, it became less about the roach and more about life and overcoming trauma (at least that’s how i interpreted it). the main character is someone who is fearful of facing herself— she spends a large part of the book talking to an invisible lover. she asks them to take her hand to lead her towards the parts of herself she can’t bear to face on her own. her slamming the wardrobe door on the roach represents an event she can no longer come back from. she can’t leave the room because she has already familiarized herself with what is within it, and she cannot afford to turn her back on it any longer. it’s what happens when you have a strong moment of clarity— a barbaric sense of right from wrong. a meeting of self. such a strong metaphor that will definitely stick with me for a long time.
challenging
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
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:
N/A
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated