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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
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
challenging
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
4.0
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
challenging
reflective
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
Heimweh nach einer anderen Welt by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
3.5
unhappyness