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30, rue de la poste by François Bon
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
5.0
La Voie Royale by André Malraux
adventurous
2.5
deux mecs blanches qui font n’importe quoi dans le jungle
Les Merveilleux Nuages by Françoise Sagan
emotional
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Une mort très douce by Simone de Beauvoir
reflective
4.0
c'était quand même un peu difficile à lire, mais j'aime bien sa façon d'écrire : des phrases d’une francais plutôt simple mais avec un sens profond
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
challenging
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.75
white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
reflective
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
well, i guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
dark
emotional
sad
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
this was a good book, but i did not move me very much (some people cried while reading it?). i mean i was invested in the plot and curious about what the gallery is and what world they were actually living in, but somehow i did not really catch me or made me feel something.
additionally, i did notfind the plottwist mindblowing or anything, nether did the caracters really intersted me. i found the conversations, especially in the end between kathy and tommy, just too short and so much not beeing said.
still the atmosphere, being set in a almost mystical boarding school in england and the road trips and everything, i still enjoyed reading the book. i just don't think i will be thinking about this a lot in the future...
additionally, i did notfind the plottwist mindblowing or anything, nether did the caracters really intersted me. i found the conversations, especially in the end between kathy and tommy, just too short and so much not beeing said.
still the atmosphere, being set in a almost mystical boarding school in england and the road trips and everything, i still enjoyed reading the book. i just don't think i will be thinking about this a lot in the future...
"reading "Never Let Me Go" is like attending the bedside of an organ transplant patient forever on the verge of rejecting. We yearn for the science fiction and romantic aspects of Ishiguro's story to match and thrive. We want desperately for it to work, but somehow, in spite of all that, it never quite takes."
- David Kipen
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
informative
4.0
oh to have such a positive influence on the people around one’s self