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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!
Beautifully woven questions and character building and author's thoughts in one piece! I randomly picked it up and it turned into one of THE best book findings!
Beautifully woven questions and character building and author's thoughts in one piece! I randomly picked it up and it turned into one of THE best book findings!
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
4.75 ⭐️
CLARICE LISPECTOR YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!
her prose is consistently some of my favorite. every single word is so carefully crafted, existential, and human. there was not a single page of this that i did not heavily annotate. i adored this story.
“she mechanically looked at herself in the mirror atop the filthy and cracked sink, full of hairs, which matched her own life so well. it seemed to her that the dark and tarnished mirror didn’t reflect any image. could her physical existence have vanished? this illusion immediately passed and she made out her face entirely distorted by the cheap little mirror, her nose as huge as a clowns papier-mache nose. she looked at herself and lightly thought: so young and already rusted.”
“a woman is born a woman from the very first cry”
“because, no matter how bad her situation, she didn't want to be deprived of herself,she wanted to be herself. She thought shed incur serious punishment and even risk dying if she took too much pleasure inlife. So she protected herself from death by living less, consuming so little of her life that shed never run out. This savings gave her a little security since you can't fall farther than the ground. Did she feel she was living for nothing? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. Only once did she ask a tragic question: who am I? It frightened her so much that she completely stopped thinking.”
CLARICE LISPECTOR YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!
her prose is consistently some of my favorite. every single word is so carefully crafted, existential, and human. there was not a single page of this that i did not heavily annotate. i adored this story.
“she mechanically looked at herself in the mirror atop the filthy and cracked sink, full of hairs, which matched her own life so well. it seemed to her that the dark and tarnished mirror didn’t reflect any image. could her physical existence have vanished? this illusion immediately passed and she made out her face entirely distorted by the cheap little mirror, her nose as huge as a clowns papier-mache nose. she looked at herself and lightly thought: so young and already rusted.”
“a woman is born a woman from the very first cry”
“because, no matter how bad her situation, she didn't want to be deprived of herself,she wanted to be herself. She thought shed incur serious punishment and even risk dying if she took too much pleasure inlife. So she protected herself from death by living less, consuming so little of her life that shed never run out. This savings gave her a little security since you can't fall farther than the ground. Did she feel she was living for nothing? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. Only once did she ask a tragic question: who am I? It frightened her so much that she completely stopped thinking.”
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
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
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
“Sadness is a luxury”
This book embodies the saying ignore is bliss.
This book embodies the saying ignore is bliss.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated