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Sorrow & Bliss
by Meg Mason
SORROW AND BLISS by MEG MASON
This is not a book I had planned to read. A woman dealing with depression (and other mental illnesses) and a failed marriage sounds too triggering for me. But @myfanw was persuasive so I ended up reading it. And I was triggered. In the past few days I have experience some horrific feelings of depression. There are other factors making me feel this way, so it’s not just this book, but it’s interesting to see how triggering something can be when you’re already on the edge. (I am fine btw).
Anyway, enough about me. This book is a sneaky little thing. It presents as fluffy, throwaway ‘chick lit’ (awful phrase, but work with me here) then it evolves into literary fiction with a dark sense of humour and clever literary devices. I am usually a fan of a lot of dialogue in a book, but Mason presented her punchlines in prose a lot of the time, and it worked. It felt funnier because it was unexpected and a bit cheeky.
I think I enjoyed this more because it was better than I expected, so I won’t big it up too much, but I do think it’s a good reminder that a blurb can sometimes tell you fuck all. Some writers could write about a chicken crossing a road and make it a literary masterpiece. Plot, once again, is by the by. It’s the writing that’s important.
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This is not a book I had planned to read. A woman dealing with depression (and other mental illnesses) and a failed marriage sounds too triggering for me. But @myfanw was persuasive so I ended up reading it. And I was triggered. In the past few days I have experience some horrific feelings of depression. There are other factors making me feel this way, so it’s not just this book, but it’s interesting to see how triggering something can be when you’re already on the edge. (I am fine btw).
Anyway, enough about me. This book is a sneaky little thing. It presents as fluffy, throwaway ‘chick lit’ (awful phrase, but work with me here) then it evolves into literary fiction with a dark sense of humour and clever literary devices. I am usually a fan of a lot of dialogue in a book, but Mason presented her punchlines in prose a lot of the time, and it worked. It felt funnier because it was unexpected and a bit cheeky.
I think I enjoyed this more because it was better than I expected, so I won’t big it up too much, but I do think it’s a good reminder that a blurb can sometimes tell you fuck all. Some writers could write about a chicken crossing a road and make it a literary masterpiece. Plot, once again, is by the by. It’s the writing that’s important.
#book #bookstagram #bookrecommendations #bookreviewfeatures #bookreview #bookrecommendation #bookreader #bookreviewer #bookreviews #bookrecs #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookstagramuk #sorrowandbliss #megmason