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Dream Work by Mary Oliver
emotional
relaxing
sad
4.5
"Sometimes what’s wrong does not hurt at all, but rather
shines like a new moon."
This summed up the poignant feeling I had of reading dream work. I had been sleeping on Mary Oliver for a long time. Everybody kept telling me this one is a real deal. Wish I had read it during my previous years.
shines like a new moon."
This summed up the poignant feeling I had of reading dream work. I had been sleeping on Mary Oliver for a long time. Everybody kept telling me this one is a real deal. Wish I had read it during my previous years.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
It feels wrong rating this book 5. But I gave it 5 stars not because I liked how "dark and depressing" this book is but because I got caught up with the story. Reminds me how tragic human lives could end up in effect of unfavorable circumstances and the evils living among us.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Rape, Emotional abuse, Classism, and Murder
Moderate: Grief, Blood, Misogyny, Abandonment, and Death of parent
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Racism
The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Wild. Didn't expect it to be so well-written. Buck Duane! The ultimate personification of fictional alpha male character. Pure hidden gem.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Blood, Infidelity, and Incest
Minor: Domestic abuse
Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life by Gustave Flaubert
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Depressing and simultaneously exasperating to read through. Reading the first few chapters of this book gives you nothing but boredom considering with all its repetitive narrating about the mundane lives of each of the characters followed by some descriptive writings about a brief background of a specific character which I thought was extraneous (at least in my opinion); set in the most rural life of France but in the perspective of bourgeois characters mostly.
There is nothing particular about this book that I liked. I hated the characters. But partly felt pity for Charles who is the real victim here and his daughter Berthe (poor little one). With his nagging/ungrateful wife, Emma, who pursued the life of lies in search for happiness out of bore and discontentment, who led a silent extravagant life when with her lovers and gained only pure narcissism and sorrow and debts at the end of the book after spending too much for the agendas of her affairs is insufferable in the lens of literature. She doesn't know what she wants in life because her view of it was augmented by an irrational longing for meaning and unceasing,false joy that she was so fond of attaining.
This book isn't something you'd want to have in your 'favorite' list of books but is one of those classic realist novels you'll ever read because of its portrayal of life without speculative fiction and romanticism glued in the subject.
There is nothing particular about this book that I liked. I hated the characters. But partly felt pity for Charles who is the real victim here and his daughter Berthe (poor little one). With his nagging/ungrateful wife, Emma, who pursued the life of lies in search for happiness out of bore and discontentment, who led a silent extravagant life when with her lovers and gained only pure narcissism and sorrow and debts at the end of the book after spending too much for the agendas of her affairs is insufferable in the lens of literature. She doesn't know what she wants in life because her view of it was augmented by an irrational longing for meaning and unceasing,false joy that she was so fond of attaining.
This book isn't something you'd want to have in your 'favorite' list of books but is one of those classic realist novels you'll ever read because of its portrayal of life without speculative fiction and romanticism glued in the subject.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Medical content
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
5.0
*Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks of the grandfathers in Kansas!
Somehow I've managed to get a joyous fun out of Ginsberg's intricately bizzare prose of poetry but sublime on another level and then realized he's damn good actually. This dude had a glorious time being a beatnik around his time. I like poems like these.
Somehow I've managed to get a joyous fun out of Ginsberg's intricately bizzare prose of poetry but sublime on another level and then realized he's damn good actually. This dude had a glorious time being a beatnik around his time. I like poems like these.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug use
Moderate: Racial slurs