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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.0
i couldn’t stop thinking about fleetwood mac while reading this book and it almost disturbed me, but not in a bad way. then i did my research and i found out that one of taylor jenkins reid’s biggest inspiration for the book was fleetwood mac and i wasn’t even surprised because well, we can tell.
it almost disturbed me but i didn’t know why until i really started to think about it more. i realized that it was hard for me to imagine my favorite bands and artists like that, because i knew deep inside of me that the book, though it is pure fiction, depicts a reality that we tend to ignore.
it’s so hard for me (and for all of us i guess) to imagine celebrities like that, because we idealize them, and when it comes to bands, we idealize their relationships with each other, we think that reality is what they show us when most of the time what happens backstage is completely different compared to what happens in front of the cameras.
maybe i’m going too far and i’m over analyzing but i really think that taylor jenkins reid had that in mind. and maybe i’m wrong but at least reading this amazing book made me realize something which is that we idolize and idealize celebrities too much, so much that we become completely delusional and it becomes unhealthy.
apart from that, this book was amazing, taylor jenkins reid is a genius just because of all the research she might have done for this book. she did it for all the 70’s music lovers because of the many references which made me enjoy this book so so much, and also because of the atmosphere that felt so real i mean wow not a lot of authors can do that.
it almost disturbed me but i didn’t know why until i really started to think about it more. i realized that it was hard for me to imagine my favorite bands and artists like that, because i knew deep inside of me that the book, though it is pure fiction, depicts a reality that we tend to ignore.
it’s so hard for me (and for all of us i guess) to imagine celebrities like that, because we idealize them, and when it comes to bands, we idealize their relationships with each other, we think that reality is what they show us when most of the time what happens backstage is completely different compared to what happens in front of the cameras.
maybe i’m going too far and i’m over analyzing but i really think that taylor jenkins reid had that in mind. and maybe i’m wrong but at least reading this amazing book made me realize something which is that we idolize and idealize celebrities too much, so much that we become completely delusional and it becomes unhealthy.
apart from that, this book was amazing, taylor jenkins reid is a genius just because of all the research she might have done for this book. she did it for all the 70’s music lovers because of the many references which made me enjoy this book so so much, and also because of the atmosphere that felt so real i mean wow not a lot of authors can do that.
Normal People by Sally Rooney
5.0
"what they have now they can never have back again. but for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. he brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. they’ve done a lot of good for each other. really, she thinks, really. people can really change one another."
honestly i don’t think i’ll ever recover from this, i’m devastated. this book was so emotionally intense. it’s almost indescribable how i felt reading this book. i was so invested in marianne and connell’s relationship that sometimes i had to remind myself that they were fictional characters.
marianne and connell are so well-written that it’s easy to relate to them both and impossible to prefer one over another. sally rooney’s writing is very simple yet she’s a genius at writing complex characters, which is the best quality a writer can have. she made marianne and connell feel real. i first wanted to rate this book 4 stars but then i decided that it fully deserves 5 stars for the reasons i mentioned and also because it’s probably one of the best books i’ve ever read.
honestly i don’t think i’ll ever recover from this, i’m devastated. this book was so emotionally intense. it’s almost indescribable how i felt reading this book. i was so invested in marianne and connell’s relationship that sometimes i had to remind myself that they were fictional characters.
marianne and connell are so well-written that it’s easy to relate to them both and impossible to prefer one over another. sally rooney’s writing is very simple yet she’s a genius at writing complex characters, which is the best quality a writer can have. she made marianne and connell feel real. i first wanted to rate this book 4 stars but then i decided that it fully deserves 5 stars for the reasons i mentioned and also because it’s probably one of the best books i’ve ever read.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
5.0
i’ve never felt more understood in my whole life, that’s all i got to say.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3.0
[3.5] i really loved the prose, i thought it was beautifully written and all the symbolism was very interesting. however i struggled a lot to really get into the story and i only really got invested towards the middle of the book. i don’t know why i wasn’t that interested at the beginning, but it definitely made me like the book less despite the fact that’s it’s objectively amazing. it’s one of the best book i’ve read and i would recommend it to anyone. i would’ve loved to give it 4 stars but the truth is that i didn’t enjoy it as much as i thought i would, probably because my expectations were too high.
again, i would recommend it to anyone because it’s a classic (duh) and also because it deals with pretty interesting topics, and it’s one of those books that everyone has to read at least once in their life.
again, i would recommend it to anyone because it’s a classic (duh) and also because it deals with pretty interesting topics, and it’s one of those books that everyone has to read at least once in their life.