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(Not a reviee per se just me keeping track)
This had got to be the best book I've read all year. It was a coming of age story from the POV of a 19 y/o college student. Which i liked, osea having a break from highschool coming of age was pretty nice.
Anyways, this book is writen on a very cool way and for me it manage to give light and discuss well what it was set out to discuss since the begining.
It opens the door for various discussions about feminity, race, white privilege & latinx experience.
My only complain is that for a puerto rican rep book it didnt have enough spanish for my liking. How ever the spanish that was aded felt very natural and very much how many spanglish speaker would talk.
Anyways, loved the book.
This had got to be the best book I've read all year. It was a coming of age story from the POV of a 19 y/o college student. Which i liked, osea having a break from highschool coming of age was pretty nice.
Anyways, this book is writen on a very cool way and for me it manage to give light and discuss well what it was set out to discuss since the begining.
It opens the door for various discussions about feminity, race, white privilege & latinx experience.
My only complain is that for a puerto rican rep book it didnt have enough spanish for my liking. How ever the spanish that was aded felt very natural and very much how many spanglish speaker would talk.
Anyways, loved the book.
Not a review per se just me keeping track
This book is pretty awesome. At first it was all chill and that and then it hit that 50% mark and i felt like a was reading a different book.
I love the use of spanish in it... Sancocho is definitely a work i would not expect to see in a book.
The mention of Hurracane Maria and everything referencing Puerto Rice was pretty well done.
The characters were easy to ready and likeable.
At the second half we have visuals of pigs, jawless people, people who keep bleeding and shit. It was pretty crazy.
I dont give it 5 stars as I didnt fully FEEL that relationship between Pheus and Eury but I still accept it.
I would be down to see a story on either of them POV while they spend more tume on the underworld.
Also, that first half has a LOT of mentions of Romeo Santos which was killing me. I'm glad by the second half the aither mentions other names other than Romeo Santos.
This book is pretty awesome. At first it was all chill and that and then it hit that 50% mark and i felt like a was reading a different book.
I love the use of spanish in it... Sancocho is definitely a work i would not expect to see in a book.
The mention of Hurracane Maria and everything referencing Puerto Rice was pretty well done.
The characters were easy to ready and likeable.
At the second half we have visuals of pigs, jawless people, people who keep bleeding and shit. It was pretty crazy.
I dont give it 5 stars as I didnt fully FEEL that relationship between Pheus and Eury but I still accept it.
I would be down to see a story on either of them POV while they spend more tume on the underworld.
Also, that first half has a LOT of mentions of Romeo Santos which was killing me. I'm glad by the second half the aither mentions other names other than Romeo Santos.
Not a review just me keeping track
(But if you do read it keep in mind it has spoilers)
This book if very good!
It's divided into three parts each kn a diferent point of view.
The first part on the POV of the husband was hard to read for the way he refered to things and narrates them. This husband doesnt really care for his wife. Mostly he is with her because its practical for him. She just takes care of everything and dies everything for him. When she becomes a burden to him and affect the way people might see him he leaves.
Second point of view is the sister's husband.
This man is sick. Once again he is another lazy husband who is married to a woman because is convinient. She takes care of the house, the kid, her own store and he? He just goes and does art. He becomes obssesed with the idea of fucking the Yeong-hye to the point he does his best to do it. In doing so fucking up his marriage of course
Third POV is the sister's In-hye. She becomes Yeong-hye's care giver and only person to visit her at the mental insitution.
Ahora, here's the thing. Through this three points of view we follow the story of a woman called Yeong-hye. She if on a marriage were we could asume she was unhappy. Suddenly she decided to become vegetarian because of a dream. This shocks everyone and causes a lot of disturbance. We see through this how her husband used her and saw her more as a maid than anything. Eventually and things continue the starts behaving as if detached from reality. That is to the point were being vegetarian is not enough anymore but she want to be a plant. And so she being to act as one, which obviously is not good for her.
(Yeong-hye suffered a lot of abuse in her life. She was hit by her father, raped by her husband and In-hye's husband and was basically her husbands maid too. )
(But if you do read it keep in mind it has spoilers)
This book if very good!
It's divided into three parts each kn a diferent point of view.
The first part on the POV of the husband was hard to read for the way he refered to things and narrates them. This husband doesnt really care for his wife. Mostly he is with her because its practical for him. She just takes care of everything and dies everything for him. When she becomes a burden to him and affect the way people might see him he leaves.
Second point of view is the sister's husband.
This man is sick. Once again he is another lazy husband who is married to a woman because is convinient. She takes care of the house, the kid, her own store and he? He just goes and does art. He becomes obssesed with the idea of fucking the Yeong-hye to the point he does his best to do it. In doing so fucking up his marriage of course
Third POV is the sister's In-hye. She becomes Yeong-hye's care giver and only person to visit her at the mental insitution.
Ahora, here's the thing. Through this three points of view we follow the story of a woman called Yeong-hye. She if on a marriage were we could asume she was unhappy. Suddenly she decided to become vegetarian because of a dream. This shocks everyone and causes a lot of disturbance. We see through this how her husband used her and saw her more as a maid than anything. Eventually and things continue the starts behaving as if detached from reality. That is to the point were being vegetarian is not enough anymore but she want to be a plant. And so she being to act as one, which obviously is not good for her.
(Yeong-hye suffered a lot of abuse in her life. She was hit by her father, raped by her husband and In-hye's husband and was basically her husbands maid too. )
Not a review just me keeping track
Pues al principio fui con la idea de que el libro iba a ser no muy hetero por la descripcion pero mostly fue todo el smut fue hetero.
Yo no consideraria esto un libro erotico full full. Y lo que tenia de escenas smut no me encantaron. El libro yo diria que trata mas sobre autodescubrimiento atravez de la libertad sexual mas alla de ser horny y ya.
La manera en la que es narrado es medio rara y diferente a como muchos libros. Es como seguir los pensamientos como tal de uns persona en lugar de una narracion de sucesos.
Nada, el libro esta nice
Pues al principio fui con la idea de que el libro iba a ser no muy hetero por la descripcion pero mostly fue todo el smut fue hetero.
Yo no consideraria esto un libro erotico full full. Y lo que tenia de escenas smut no me encantaron. El libro yo diria que trata mas sobre autodescubrimiento atravez de la libertad sexual mas alla de ser horny y ya.
La manera en la que es narrado es medio rara y diferente a como muchos libros. Es como seguir los pensamientos como tal de uns persona en lugar de una narracion de sucesos.
Nada, el libro esta nice
(not a review per se, just me keeping track)
I went into this book keeping in mind that it was written in 1959 so I didn't expect it to be a truly scary story for me. However, this book was beautiful. That's the only way I can put it. It was indeed not scary for me but the way the story moved and how it was written... loved it.
Eleanor although a unreliable narrator was a great lens through which to explore the story.
I'm only giving it 4 stars cause I didn't find it as scary as it may have been on a different time.
I went into this book keeping in mind that it was written in 1959 so I didn't expect it to be a truly scary story for me. However, this book was beautiful. That's the only way I can put it. It was indeed not scary for me but the way the story moved and how it was written... loved it.
Eleanor although a unreliable narrator was a great lens through which to explore the story.
I'm only giving it 4 stars cause I didn't find it as scary as it may have been on a different time.
(Not a review per se just me keeping track)
I picked up this book at the local library and afterwards remembered the controversy surrounding it.
The book it self its easy to read and cute. Unfortunately I cant lie about that. My problem eith the story itself is that by the end of the book it feels more like surface level developement. I would have like to see more indepth or have explored more the process of that changed in the DICOMY thing. Cause that type of change doesnt come easily.
Anyways, knowing what I've read about the author and the story it causes a bit of conflict about how i feel on the book.
I picked up this book at the local library and afterwards remembered the controversy surrounding it.
The book it self its easy to read and cute. Unfortunately I cant lie about that. My problem eith the story itself is that by the end of the book it feels more like surface level developement. I would have like to see more indepth or have explored more the process of that changed in the DICOMY thing. Cause that type of change doesnt come easily.
Anyways, knowing what I've read about the author and the story it causes a bit of conflict about how i feel on the book.
Not a review perse just me keeping trackt
So this is a sapphic romance of two college freshman. It felt very rom-com. It touched a few more serious subjects like Alex's mom alcoholism and her having to be the care giver of her own parent while trying to provide for herself. Qnd Natalie (Alex's gf/ex) being a manipulative bitch. Could the authors have gone deeper into those topic yes. However, i dont think that was nessesarily the point of the book. It also put me off that Alex and Molly said I love you after a month of knowing each other but oh well.
Anyways, it was fun, relaxing and entertaining which is enough for me.
So this is a sapphic romance of two college freshman. It felt very rom-com. It touched a few more serious subjects like Alex's mom alcoholism and her having to be the care giver of her own parent while trying to provide for herself. Qnd Natalie (Alex's gf/ex) being a manipulative bitch. Could the authors have gone deeper into those topic yes. However, i dont think that was nessesarily the point of the book. It also put me off that Alex and Molly said I love you after a month of knowing each other but oh well.
Anyways, it was fun, relaxing and entertaining which is enough for me.
Not a review just me keeping track
This is a solid 3 stars for me.
Though the book had potential I think it did not live to the expectations that the sypnosis gave me.
So we follow sarah and emilie but the idea seems to be that while one is trying to find her path in life and the other is still struggling with thing of the past "they must decide if love is more powerful than their past"
But here's the thing this is portrayed as a sapphic romance but the romance here is VERYsurface level. And not very believeable.
How am i supposed to believe that they saw each other in a bar once and one year or two later they still were interested in each other. If THEY NEVER SAW EACH OTHER AFTER THAT ONE TIME.
So then it feels more like a story were each is to their own and they just happen to keep crossing paths. But idk, it doesnt say much romance to me.
Then there's emilie with questions about her creole heritage but that it only said on surface leven they dont dive into that discussion (that seems to matter a lot for her) as much as we go into sarah's past.
Anyways, the book as first was interesting the middle was okay and the end was sorta interesting too.
Not fully satisfied but nice enougj i guess.
This is a solid 3 stars for me.
Though the book had potential I think it did not live to the expectations that the sypnosis gave me.
So we follow sarah and emilie but the idea seems to be that while one is trying to find her path in life and the other is still struggling with thing of the past "they must decide if love is more powerful than their past"
But here's the thing this is portrayed as a sapphic romance but the romance here is VERYsurface level. And not very believeable.
How am i supposed to believe that they saw each other in a bar once and one year or two later they still were interested in each other. If THEY NEVER SAW EACH OTHER AFTER THAT ONE TIME.
So then it feels more like a story were each is to their own and they just happen to keep crossing paths. But idk, it doesnt say much romance to me.
Then there's emilie with questions about her creole heritage but that it only said on surface leven they dont dive into that discussion (that seems to matter a lot for her) as much as we go into sarah's past.
Anyways, the book as first was interesting the middle was okay and the end was sorta interesting too.
Not fully satisfied but nice enougj i guess.
i think it's about time i DNF this.
I understand academicaly discussing this book might be un palote but i could not get through it. too slow too boring.
I understand academicaly discussing this book might be un palote but i could not get through it. too slow too boring.