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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
One blurb calls this “riveting.” I’d like to know which book they were actually reading when they wrote that blurb, so I can read that book instead of this.
funny
tense
slow-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
i might pick this one up again. it felt too . . . idk too much like my own life for the few pages i got to read. it was still in a way that i did not want it to be still. BUT maybe i'll pick it up again.
dark
funny
sad
medium-paced
I kept misremembering the title as _Not Me_ -- a kindness to myself.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
This triggered my depression
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Millie neurodivergent coded. Butler does a great job at writing a self aware yet delusional character; reading his felt like getting socked in the face with an ice cold bucket of water repeatedly (positive?).
Favorite Quotes:
“I was right about it all, being alone is clarifying. And there I go, I’m crying again, but still faking it, half of me still unmoved.”
“I want to go home. But not to my apartment home, to my thirteen-years-ago home, to my hug-my-mother homes, say I will make her proud, apologize, explain I can do better this time, be in my bed, be in my room, look at the magazine, plan my day, start not from scratch but just a little bit back, make different decisions, try to cultivate confidence, try not to coddle bad thoughts, be better, take the right things seriously, not to say the things I said the James, try to hold on to a job, monitor my expectations earlier. Bring them way down.”
“We arrive, and I get a hug when I come in, because the hostess doesn’t know me yet.”
“Standing in the fucking bathroom with snot running down your face because someone offered you a job. No no no, because someone maybe offered you a job. If Karen comes in here, she’s going to take it back, and you’re not going to have anything. That’s what you wanted all along, isn’t it? You know you can’t actually just crawl into a hole and die, right? Don’t be such a little bitch, at the rate you’re going, you’ll never be employed, so don’t sweat it.”
Favorite Quotes:
“I was right about it all, being alone is clarifying. And there I go, I’m crying again, but still faking it, half of me still unmoved.”
“I want to go home. But not to my apartment home, to my thirteen-years-ago home, to my hug-my-mother homes, say I will make her proud, apologize, explain I can do better this time, be in my bed, be in my room, look at the magazine, plan my day, start not from scratch but just a little bit back, make different decisions, try to cultivate confidence, try not to coddle bad thoughts, be better, take the right things seriously, not to say the things I said the James, try to hold on to a job, monitor my expectations earlier. Bring them way down.”
“We arrive, and I get a hug when I come in, because the hostess doesn’t know me yet.”
“Standing in the fucking bathroom with snot running down your face because someone offered you a job. No no no, because someone maybe offered you a job. If Karen comes in here, she’s going to take it back, and you’re not going to have anything. That’s what you wanted all along, isn’t it? You know you can’t actually just crawl into a hole and die, right? Don’t be such a little bitch, at the rate you’re going, you’ll never be employed, so don’t sweat it.”