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A review by ohsoreads
Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann
5.0
The Doctor: “Are you lonely, Agatha?”
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Agatha: “One way or another I am. There’s something lonely about not living. About watching other people play while your own legs are broken.”
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Agatha battles with existential crisis — to feel utterly unique and completely irrelevant at the same time, she describes. She struggles with a history of mental illnesses and strangely enough insists on this retiring Doctor for therapy.
Whilst Agatha has come to the Doctor to seek help, a listening ear perhaps but it seems that the Doctor is learning about himself thru Agatha as well. Just like how Agatha had said to him, “How can you claim to understand other people if you don’t even know who you are?” I found it quite humorous that in the final parts of the book, the patient became the Doctor and the Doctor is now the patient.
To side track a little, I picked up this book at a perfect time; it was raining cats and dogs this evening and I was reading how the Doctor was describing that in the book, it was raining too - you can hear the rain gently tapping on the windows, the cars zooming over water puddles and such. It was a spectacular moment to experience at that time, everything was in the right place and time.
For the final part, the message that I’ve derived at was: To seek within yourself & explore the undiscovered. I thoroughly enjoyed this quick read.
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Agatha: “One way or another I am. There’s something lonely about not living. About watching other people play while your own legs are broken.”
—
Agatha battles with existential crisis — to feel utterly unique and completely irrelevant at the same time, she describes. She struggles with a history of mental illnesses and strangely enough insists on this retiring Doctor for therapy.
Whilst Agatha has come to the Doctor to seek help, a listening ear perhaps but it seems that the Doctor is learning about himself thru Agatha as well. Just like how Agatha had said to him, “How can you claim to understand other people if you don’t even know who you are?” I found it quite humorous that in the final parts of the book, the patient became the Doctor and the Doctor is now the patient.
To side track a little, I picked up this book at a perfect time; it was raining cats and dogs this evening and I was reading how the Doctor was describing that in the book, it was raining too - you can hear the rain gently tapping on the windows, the cars zooming over water puddles and such. It was a spectacular moment to experience at that time, everything was in the right place and time.
For the final part, the message that I’ve derived at was: To seek within yourself & explore the undiscovered. I thoroughly enjoyed this quick read.