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A review by pineconek
The Shame by Makenna Goodman
3.0
An ode to an ode to women writing stream of consciousness while feeling stuck in a life that they may as well be watching from the outside while actually watching a different life from the outside.
Perhaps something Virginia Woolf would have written if she'd known about social media and homesteading and lived in Vermont. I say that based on what I remember of reading Mrs Dalloway back in highschool. In other words: this is a book where nothing happens and the main character is despondent. We live in her head with her, and it's not always a great place. She wants to bake pies and be the perfect mother to her children and a good wife to her academic husband and all that other new england glory. And she sees others, one woman in particular, being so much better at it than she is.
Recommended if you enjoy reading 100+ pages of angst about routine and motherhood and don't mind if absolutely nothing happens.
Perhaps something Virginia Woolf would have written if she'd known about social media and homesteading and lived in Vermont. I say that based on what I remember of reading Mrs Dalloway back in highschool. In other words: this is a book where nothing happens and the main character is despondent. We live in her head with her, and it's not always a great place. She wants to bake pies and be the perfect mother to her children and a good wife to her academic husband and all that other new england glory. And she sees others, one woman in particular, being so much better at it than she is.
Recommended if you enjoy reading 100+ pages of angst about routine and motherhood and don't mind if absolutely nothing happens.