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A review by huerb
Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
5.0
I think my first 5/5 of the year?
Ngl, there were some stories that made me lose touch with the book but there were some that deserved a galaxy.
I loved that the author let us peek into completely different people’s souls in completely different journeys and stages of life. I loved how she took small bits of life and turned it into magic. I loved how raw, exposed and human every character was. Made me fall in love with life & humanity again, at a time when I desperately needed it.
Call me sentimental, but what led me to give the 5 starts was the ending, the part when I realised the main character of the last story was referenced in one of the previous ones. (PLEASE let me know if there were any other references and I missed it!!) And it just got me into this sea of thoughts about how we never know the feelings and the state the other people when we cross paths with them. And how, even though so different we all are, we are connected; whether that’s just through being in the same universe, or sharing the same feelings, or our perception of life.
I love it. I love the human consciousness we all share that leads to books such as this.
S/o to my dear Ioana to gifting this book to me!! The best read of the second half of the year <3
Ngl, there were some stories that made me lose touch with the book but there were some that deserved a galaxy.
I loved that the author let us peek into completely different people’s souls in completely different journeys and stages of life. I loved how she took small bits of life and turned it into magic. I loved how raw, exposed and human every character was. Made me fall in love with life & humanity again, at a time when I desperately needed it.
Call me sentimental, but what led me to give the 5 starts was the ending, the part when I realised the main character of the last story was referenced in one of the previous ones. (PLEASE let me know if there were any other references and I missed it!!) And it just got me into this sea of thoughts about how we never know the feelings and the state the other people when we cross paths with them. And how, even though so different we all are, we are connected; whether that’s just through being in the same universe, or sharing the same feelings, or our perception of life.
I love it. I love the human consciousness we all share that leads to books such as this.
S/o to my dear Ioana to gifting this book to me!! The best read of the second half of the year <3