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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
medium-paced
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-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
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
*uni read
this one's a real stinker for sure.
first of all, this is literally just virginia woolf fanfiction. starting off with romanticising woolf's suicide and then following it with rewriting almost all of the plot of mrs dalloway but reframing it in a more explicitly 'queer' way and trying to modernise it should not constitute as an original piece of fiction. not to mention that whole paragraphs are ripped straight out of woolf's text and just placed into this one is so lazy.
the attempt to make this whole book profound and more than what it seems fails so miserably because there is nothing that hasn't either been explained away immediately or just lacks the substance to become something to analyse. there are just these lines that make you roll your eyes, and i genuinely had to put the book down and walk away for minutes at a time.
the way in which the book tries to centre these characters as queer is also just so insensitive. to say that a very clearly gay woman was the happiest when in a relationship with a man is so incredibly awful, and then trying to push other characters who have not been written (not like they have any depth anyway) to be queer to suddenly have this awakening or realisation just takes away from the representation that it was trying to go for. also not to mention just refusing to mention woolf's own real and known relationship with another woman.
i just do not understand how you can just replicate another book but completely ruin it when the material was all there for you??
this one's a real stinker for sure.
first of all, this is literally just virginia woolf fanfiction. starting off with romanticising woolf's suicide and then following it with rewriting almost all of the plot of mrs dalloway but reframing it in a more explicitly 'queer' way and trying to modernise it should not constitute as an original piece of fiction. not to mention that whole paragraphs are ripped straight out of woolf's text and just placed into this one is so lazy.
the attempt to make this whole book profound and more than what it seems fails so miserably because there is nothing that hasn't either been explained away immediately or just lacks the substance to become something to analyse. there are just these lines that make you roll your eyes, and i genuinely had to put the book down and walk away for minutes at a time.
the way in which the book tries to centre these characters as queer is also just so insensitive. to say that a very clearly gay woman was the happiest when in a relationship with a man is so incredibly awful, and then trying to push other characters who have not been written (not like they have any depth anyway) to be queer to suddenly have this awakening or realisation just takes away from the representation that it was trying to go for. also not to mention just refusing to mention woolf's own real and known relationship with another woman.
i just do not understand how you can just replicate another book but completely ruin it when the material was all there for you??
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a rich book that does not try to overshadow Mrs. Dalloway, but rather shows how the questions the latter novel poses have been applicable throughout human history. Cunningham does a brilliant job at weaving in aspects of Woolf's work while also creating a very full story of his own. I think that she would have been proud, or at least flattered.
Non è un fallimento, si dice. Non è un fallimento essere in queste stanze, nella tua pelle, a tagliare i gambi dei fiori. Non è un fallimento, ma ti chiede qualcosa: ti chiede uno sforzo; semplicemente essere, ed essere grata; essere felice (terribile parola).
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes