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The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
4.0
loved this book, maybe better than the first. it was triggering for me lmaooo because girl relationships are so tense and dramatic and filled with deep genuine love but also competition and this book does such a good job exploring all those horrible petty feelings that creep up inside of you. and it’s even worse now because in this novel they’re older and they’re involved with men (boys) which ramps everything up to higher stakes. i loved this
book and I love this series. i have more thoughts. but just wanted to get this down.
book and I love this series. i have more thoughts. but just wanted to get this down.
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
4.0
Great book! I think I went into reading this with the wrong idea - I think I thought of it as a self-help book that would give me answers to solving my own attention problems. I thought the first couple chapters were preachy because of this but I was pleasantly surprised to find that wasn't the case at all. The author was refreshingly candid about his own struggles with attention and how we CAN make individual changes that will help, but if we don't come together as a society to address our collective attention problem our lives will be stripped away from us. The author kiiinda named that it's capitalism that's doing this in so many words but he wasn't explicitly anti-capitalist so
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
4.0
first thoughts:
- woahhh...
- girly i have mommy issues too
but really this was incredible. ive never read anything like it. she writes very concisely, the sentences are short and too the point. but damn she really understands how to convey that deep deep pain and despair and love and confusion. and rage. it was really something to read. her memories are so clear its crazy. she has this understanding that only comes with age and deep deep reflection of what the image of yourself as you knew it then and the image you know now. very very interesting.
- woahhh...
- girly i have mommy issues too
but really this was incredible. ive never read anything like it. she writes very concisely, the sentences are short and too the point. but damn she really understands how to convey that deep deep pain and despair and love and confusion. and rage. it was really something to read. her memories are so clear its crazy. she has this understanding that only comes with age and deep deep reflection of what the image of yourself as you knew it then and the image you know now. very very interesting.