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Motherhood

Sheila Heti

3.69 AVERAGE

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-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
dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Very, and I can’t stress this enough, het
challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.5 starts!
I was hoping this book would answer some questions in my personal life and I should’ve known that was quite a bit ask and unlikely to happen! haha
That being said, I loved it and loved the structure and pace!! I read some negative reviews relating to not liking the main character but to that I say- who cannot relate to thinking you don’t know what you want but knowing that you do but still wanting to know more but being certain you don’t? Its called anxiety covered in childhood trauma folks and personally I loved the nuance it gave to her thoughts and the different perspectives it led her through. I think it made her a more relatable and honest character, despite the repetitiveness!

One of my fav quotes-
“Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself—it is the greatest secret I keep from myself”.

úvahy nad mateřstvím z pohledu vztahu ženy k dětem, k její matce a matce její matky a stejně tak i k (ne-)ženství jako takovýmu - dost doporučuju
challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No

This book is so insane. Don’t know if I enjoyed reading it but I keep telling people to read it