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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
5.0
second read: it still hurts
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i feel like someone took away something that was very dear to me. i feel like my heart has been ripped out and torn to little pieces. i wasn't ready to say goodbye to those characters and i don't think i ever will. which leaves me with one, simple solution: to read this book over and over again. to make myself live through this pain, sorrow and happiness, once again. to cry my eyes out, unable to breathe. again.
thank you hanya yanagihara, you have ruined me.
thank you for jude and willem.
thank you.
(yes, i have laid in my bed, hugging this book after finishing it for almost an hour. i am not ashamed)
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i feel like someone took away something that was very dear to me. i feel like my heart has been ripped out and torn to little pieces. i wasn't ready to say goodbye to those characters and i don't think i ever will. which leaves me with one, simple solution: to read this book over and over again. to make myself live through this pain, sorrow and happiness, once again. to cry my eyes out, unable to breathe. again.
thank you hanya yanagihara, you have ruined me.
thank you for jude and willem.
thank you.
(yes, i have laid in my bed, hugging this book after finishing it for almost an hour. i am not ashamed)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
1.0
this book was so joyless, so full of grief that even the dog narrator couldn't save it. it simply didn't click with me, even though i love dogs more than i love myself.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
5.0
some thoughts about my third reading of this book. this book is traumatizing, there's no denying that. however, only after two years i've realized how hope drive it actually is. don't get me wrong, what happened to jude and his ways of coping were heartbreaking. nevertheless, he had hope - hope for his 'little life', hope of being loved, of being able to work for himself, of being accepted, of accepting himself. even though at times it seemed like there's no hope left, jude managed to surprise me with his willingness to fight and to still expect the best even while expecting the worst. it's a little hard to explain, fingers crossed that you understand what i meant with this review.
noelle's review of this book also made me look and see this novel in a different light, or rather the hype around it. i get that it's a beautiful book, there's nothing wrong with that, and it makes you feel all the sorrow, all the joyful moments, all the trauma. but we really needn't glorify the experience while recommending the book to others.
yes, this review is chaotic, i know. but it's mine. thanks for reading x
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second read: it still hurts
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i feel like someone took away something that was very dear to me. i feel like my heart has been ripped out and torn to little pieces. i wasn't ready to say goodbye to those characters and i don't think i ever will. which leaves me with one, simple solution: to read this book over and over again. to make myself live through this pain, sorrow and happiness, once again. to cry my eyes out, unable to breathe. again.
thank you hanya yanagihara, you have ruined me.
thank you for jude and willem.
thank you.
(yes, i have laid in my bed, hugging this book after finishing it for almost an hour. i am not ashamed)
noelle's review of this book also made me look and see this novel in a different light, or rather the hype around it. i get that it's a beautiful book, there's nothing wrong with that, and it makes you feel all the sorrow, all the joyful moments, all the trauma. but we really needn't glorify the experience while recommending the book to others.
yes, this review is chaotic, i know. but it's mine. thanks for reading x
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second read: it still hurts
_
i feel like someone took away something that was very dear to me. i feel like my heart has been ripped out and torn to little pieces. i wasn't ready to say goodbye to those characters and i don't think i ever will. which leaves me with one, simple solution: to read this book over and over again. to make myself live through this pain, sorrow and happiness, once again. to cry my eyes out, unable to breathe. again.
thank you hanya yanagihara, you have ruined me.
thank you for jude and willem.
thank you.
(yes, i have laid in my bed, hugging this book after finishing it for almost an hour. i am not ashamed)
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
2.0
i wrote lots of angry messages about this book. ranting to my best friend how cartoonish and flat the characters seem - especially the adult ones (either evil for no reason at all or with their only purpose to appear on the couch watching something silly on the TV). as a podcast enthusiast, i was mesmerized by the idea of 'universe city'. man, i wish i had listened to something as good, as intimate, as mysterious as this. i was angry at the book for wasting its potential on silly popcultural dialogue (is that really how we talk nowadays?). however, i did appreciate how the hardships of adulting were presented, especially the 'going-to-university' part. wish i read that when i was younger. wish someone told me the stuff that was there two years ago.
summing up this chaotic review, yes, i did like the intention of the book. yes, everything else irked me.
summing up this chaotic review, yes, i did like the intention of the book. yes, everything else irked me.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
3.0
beautiful and horrific portrait of human vices painted in a science fiction scenario. this is what i fuck with
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
3.0
this was so perfectly imperfect. i loved the cheesy, obvious enemies-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic. the plot irked me a bit and was easy to guess but i don't think that was the main idea behind the book. i laughed, i cried, i whacked my head on the window while reading the last pages. i fell in love with those fools even though they are so easy to hate. i guess this YA was something out of my comfort zone as i don't usually reach for books like this. nevertheless, i had so much fun. i don't think i had so much fun reading a book in a long time.
summing it up: this book made me 'hmpf' a lot. also the 'she loved what i was' scene can live in my head rent-free.
ps. ney, love, my dearest - i hate u X
summing it up: this book made me 'hmpf' a lot. also the 'she loved what i was' scene can live in my head rent-free.
ps. ney, love, my dearest - i hate u X
Lust for life by Irving Stone
1.0
at times it felt like vincent was me, the parts of me pulled out of my diary. however, most of the time vincent was too idealized - a god-like martyr. silly dialogues aren't the solution to show his artistry or how misunderstood he was. the book created nothing but a paper cutout, an impostor.
not going back to this kind of literature any time soon.
not going back to this kind of literature any time soon.