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A review by mctumenas
This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets
3.0
I received a copy of this book from Penguin Random House First to Read program.
This is a short novel with the main character grieving the death of her mother. This feeling of loss is one that almost all will face at one point in their lives, but Blanca is not a character that one would admire or empathize with. It seems that everything in her life has to be all about her- including her grief. However, it does seem that she has inherited her attitude about life and how to live it from the glimpses we see of her life with her mother.
I found this 2 opposing quotes interesting:
"Everything you’ve done or experienced without indifference,
attentively, they belong to you. You can call them up
whenever you want."
vs.
" I think there are certain things that we lose forever. In fact,
I think we’re more a sum of the things we’ve lost than of
the things we’ve kept."
Is "This Too Shall Pass" a good thing? The sorrow will pass or the memories will pass or?
This is a short novel with the main character grieving the death of her mother. This feeling of loss is one that almost all will face at one point in their lives, but Blanca is not a character that one would admire or empathize with. It seems that everything in her life has to be all about her- including her grief. However, it does seem that she has inherited her attitude about life and how to live it from the glimpses we see of her life with her mother.
I found this 2 opposing quotes interesting:
"Everything you’ve done or experienced without indifference,
attentively, they belong to you. You can call them up
whenever you want."
vs.
" I think there are certain things that we lose forever. In fact,
I think we’re more a sum of the things we’ve lost than of
the things we’ve kept."
Is "This Too Shall Pass" a good thing? The sorrow will pass or the memories will pass or?