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funny
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
5.0
This was fantastic. The way I’ve been describing it to people is that it’s a plotless novel that’s similar to Mrs. Dalloway, but, like, more so, and set in the present day.
I took immense pleasure in the language of Pond—it was wry and reflective and generous (I haven’t read a book with so many words I didn’t know in a while). The main character simply goes about her life, and through her eyes that life transforms into something both radiant and peculiar, both uncommonly beautiful and frighteningly strange.
Also the North American cover is aesthetically stunning.
Quote:
“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that’s not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream. And daydreams return me to my original sense of things and I luxuriate in these fervid primary visions until I am entirely my unalloyed self again. So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.”
I took immense pleasure in the language of Pond—it was wry and reflective and generous (I haven’t read a book with so many words I didn’t know in a while). The main character simply goes about her life, and through her eyes that life transforms into something both radiant and peculiar, both uncommonly beautiful and frighteningly strange.
Also the North American cover is aesthetically stunning.
Quote:
“Everybody knows deep down that life is as much about the things that do not happen as the things that do and that’s not something that ought to be glossed over or denied because without frustration there would hardly be any need to daydream. And daydreams return me to my original sense of things and I luxuriate in these fervid primary visions until I am entirely my unalloyed self again. So even though it sometimes feels as if one could just about die from disappointment I must concede that in fact in a rather perverse way it is precisely those things I did not get that are keeping me alive.”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Cursing
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