evefruitt's reviews
7 reviews

But is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory by Cynthia Freeland

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Memories by Lang Leav

emotional relaxing

3.75

At times it was repetitive and the ones on love seems to have the same idea every time.

My favourite poem from this book is:

Name- SOULS

When two sounds fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other. The presence that is felt through a hand held, a voice heard, or a smile seen.

Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another.

This is the reason why you miss someone so much when they are not there—even if they are only in the very next room. Your soul only feels their absence—it doesn’t realise the separation is only temporary.

…………………

Can I ask you something?
Anything.
Why is it every time we say good night, it feels like goodbye?

FIN.

I would also like to add, I usually thrift or get my books second hand. One, it is cheaper, two, something is so intimate about it - someone has owned this book before me, I see annotations of theirs and the tips of pages being folded as a mark to show they particularly enjoyed this page. I’d highly suggest buying books this way, it just makes it all the more enjoyable.

Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

Usually when I finish a book I’ll be deep in thought, shocked, immersed, crazed possibly - I don’t know! But my only thought after this was:

‘…What???’

I try my best not to let my emotions be all too controlling when reviewing a book but good god?!

Okay, truthfully, I think what really aggravated me was the way I could picture a man genuinely feeling all these things and taking some form of pride in these awful actions and thoughts.

The writing wasn’t remotely even good. If you had shown me this book and said that an edgelord teenage boy wrote this book to relieve his fantasy frustrations I would fully believe you.

Tiktok overhyped this book saying it was genius and such which is obviously bull. Sure, it has shock value and quite an audience but let’s not lie here; it’s bad. I want to give it some benefit and call it ‘entertaining’ at the very least but truthfully it really isn’t either. In fact I had to force myself to finish the book just in case it could redeem itself! Evidently, it hasn’t.

On a semi good note:

I’m not a fan of cursing when it is unnecessary but every time this book included one it did in some shape or form did add to the protagonist; letting us, the readers, see him the tiniest bit more. He was troubled, angry, distressed - those were the reasoning of him being the way he was. Is it an excuse? NO! But its reasoning and I did like that. Maybe this was just me and wasn’t so much of the author’s writing but I like being able to understand and empathise with a character without feeling any real sense of pity. He doesn’t deserve any, anyway.

Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

dark emotional funny fast-paced

4.0

When I picked up the book I was already interested, the format of it was just so intriguing to the point it inspired me to want to create my own script.
The book itself is very interesting and is leading me to want to watch the show (…which will be in a month or so as I am horrible with sitting myself down to make accurate plans).
It does include quite a bit of cursing and majorly inappropriate themes, crude jokes, dark topics at times. I personally will read anything as long as it keeps my attention and is well written (ie, not romanticised, dramatised, etc). If it is authentic and the reactions are human I will consume consume consumeee! And this book is a fine example. I don’t agree with a ton and I made faces at a lot but goodness it was brilliant.

I say this a lot: ‘If I could marry blank (-usually an item I am obsessed with/love), I would.’ And I would never say that about this book. I love it, but I feel I would throw the book (in its personified version) out the window immediately.

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

funny informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

4.0

I finish this a few weeks ago so I’m going based off memory.
It was a relatively quick and easy read and did make me feel sad at times. I loved the relationship between the two men, it was so heart warming and sweet. It’s hard to place my finger on how to even describe their relationship - teacher and student is too shallow, friends isn’t enough, father and son just doesn’t click, and surely romantic isn’t right for them because it is somehow deeper to me.
I think I also loved this book because since I was little I loved the thought of having an  aged friend to have around and tell me their experiences and philosophies.

It’s a marvellous book and I highly suggest it.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

sad

4.0

The whole read of the book was pretty good and interesting enough to continue to read. I knew that this book had a nihilistic idea but strange enough I was still surprised and (though it wasn’t using depressing tone or language) really sad. I think I loved this book honestly.

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(Emotional drivel about the book)
Did I mention how sad the end made me feel??? Like holy cow it made me so depressed for like 2 hours!!! If I turn into an insect please god kill me immediately, POOR GREGORRR OMGGGGGGGG