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Il mio anno di riposo e oblio by Ottessa Moshfegh, Gioia Guerzoni
57 reviews
anij020's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.25
Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Vomit
harm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
Why do we read? If we read for enjoyment, this book is not worth our time. Getting through the pages upon pages of mostly aimless narrative was a hard slog with minimal pay-off and a vaguely insulting ending. If we read to learn and to feel, this is still not the book for us. Our beautiful, privileged narrator does not bring anything particularly new, thought-provoking or touching to our attention over her year of wilful dissociation and refusal of help.
As I read My Year of Rest and Relaxation, I found myself growing more and more despondent. At a stretch, I could say that in some ways my mood during this read mirrored the narrator's. Was this Moshfegh's design, to construct an example of "life imitates art" by dragging her readers into a sleep-like state? Or was this book truly just an unpleasant experience?
At the end of the day, I read for enjoyment and I did not enjoy this book. Am I missing something?
Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Vomit
Minor: Animal cruelty and Gaslighting
abbiesb_read's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Let’s start with the positive:
I enjoyed the exploration into different sides of depression. We see a main character (the narrator) that is mourning the loss of gaslighting parents and another character (her best friend) that is constantly comparing herself to others.
As someone who struggles with depression and is constantly comparing myself to others, and beating myself up about it, I identify with the narrator’s desire to want to sleep to escape her problems.
On the outside her life looks “perfect” but inside she feels like she’s dying. —she’s a narcissistic, she is selfish, she is rude—her thoughts feel very realistic because I think she thinks what a lot of people (including myself) don’t want to admit that they think.
Now, let’s talk about the negative:
Some of these are simply because certain aspects of this book are not my cup of tea so keep that in mind.
The main character LIES about sexual assault and committing suicide so she can get the affection of a man —I don’t think that this was necessary for the character to do in order to manipulate her toxic on-again off-again boyfriend to fuck her.
I don’t think so. To me, the ending felt rushed and the problems that the main character faces seem to just go away—all it took was her doing some tidying up and she was magically better. this author just slapped a bandaid on the narrator’s problems without the character going through the deep emotional development that she needs in order to be a better person. Her “healing” felt very temporary (I’m pulling from my personal experience here).
I honestly feel very conflicted on how to rate this book. I can’t tell if I dislike it because it’s what the author set out to do or if I hate it because it’s objectively bad.
Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, and Gaslighting
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Pregnancy
adinareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Grief, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
Minor: Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Sexual content
kat_ewing's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicide
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, and Sexual assault
Minor: Ableism, Abortion, and Body shaming
nefari_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
Minor: Abortion, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Terminal illness
samdolan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Eating disorder and Terminal illness
Moderate: Abortion, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Vomit