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Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Most biased review I've ever given because Fleabag is my favorite show.
Technically this is just a script but still I want every line and stage direction tattooed behind my eyelids, okay? cool.
5.0
Most biased review I've ever given because Fleabag is my favorite show.
Technically this is just a script but still I want every line and stage direction tattooed behind my eyelids, okay? cool.
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Can't decide if it's 4 or 4.5 stars yet, but let's be optimistic.
My god this man can WRITE. It's a fascinating book for sure. An incredible exploration of the male gaze and its obsession with untouchable, tragic innocence. Every single narrative decision is completely brilliant and the perspective is unbearable to read at times which makes it fantastic. The way the story is pieced together and slowly moves through the events, only to reveal nothing substantial at all would be frustating, if it wasn't exactly the point.
The closing paragraph is one of the best written book endings I've ever read, and perfectly sums up every idea Eugenides tried to convey.
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them." Yeah, exactly. The girls that get it, get it.
No but seriously I loved this book but if a man ever tells me it's his favorite? I'm running away so fast it's not even funny.
4.75
Can't decide if it's 4 or 4.5 stars yet, but let's be optimistic.
My god this man can WRITE. It's a fascinating book for sure. An incredible exploration of the male gaze and its obsession with untouchable, tragic innocence. Every single narrative decision is completely brilliant and the perspective is unbearable to read at times which makes it fantastic. The way the story is pieced together and slowly moves through the events, only to reveal nothing substantial at all would be frustating, if it wasn't exactly the point.
The closing paragraph is one of the best written book endings I've ever read, and perfectly sums up every idea Eugenides tried to convey.
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them." Yeah, exactly. The girls that get it, get it.
No but seriously I loved this book but if a man ever tells me it's his favorite? I'm running away so fast it's not even funny.
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
3.5
Beautiful, beautiful writing. It's an essay collection that's definitely supposed to be read outside in a park somewhere. There's a lot I can praise about the writing in this collection, but I also felt like it was missing something. I think I just don't connect with Mary Oliver's philosophy completely, so while one moment the writing drew me in, I just as quickly lost interest.
Overall, I enjoyed section one and four the most, closely followed by three, though I'd like to revisit section three once I've actually read some more of the transcendentalists.
This might not turn out to be a new favorite, but it has left me quite curious to pick up Mary Oliver's poetry (and Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass')
Overall, I enjoyed section one and four the most, closely followed by three, though I'd like to revisit section three once I've actually read some more of the transcendentalists.
This might not turn out to be a new favorite, but it has left me quite curious to pick up Mary Oliver's poetry (and Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass')