paigeweb's reviews
99 reviews

Last Vanities: Stories by Fleur Jaeggy

3.0

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

3.0

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

5.0

But - but me too?!
(explosion)

The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia

4.75

The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir

medium-paced

5.0

Utterly devastating. Time slips away and so does love.

edit: Had to change my rating... A week later and this book still lingers. I know it will be haunting my mental periphery for a long time to come.

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

4.0

Soulstorm by Clarice Lispector

4.75

Always a pleasure to spend time in Clarice's world

The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

so incredibly intimate, it's as if the narrator, Lenuccia, is whispering her story in your ear.

The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur's writing style reminds me so much of Clarice Lispector's - who I love - but is possibly more obscure and wispy. In my opinion the lack of plot does not really detract from the experience of reading the book... which is to say the trance-like state that her beautifully constructed (if often devoid of meaning when assembled into paragraphs and pages) sentences make you fall into. I'm looking forward to reading more of her works in the near future; I've been hooked.