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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Did not finish book. Stopped at 47%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 47%.
After reading the 'secret history', I was eager to continue Donna Tartts discography with 'the little friend'. I had owned the book for a couple of months but not read it so decided to listen to it as an audiobook, which I'm glad I did because there was no way I would have gotten this far into the book. The audiobook is about 24hr and 30mins, and I managed to get 11hr and 30mins into it. If you want a mystery story, this is not it. This book is more about the day to day living during a time of racial contention, where we see how black people are living within this town and about the life of Harriet the main character as she tries to ask questions about her brothers murder to people who don't want to talk about it, and living with her mother who has developed mental illness due to her distress.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Cursing, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Grief, and Murder
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Grief, and Death of parent
Human Acts by Han Kang
4.5
It took a while to get into it but then I was hooked. This book shows the perspective of different ordinary people during the brutal gwanju uprising and massacre and we follow these people and see how their stories all converge. The book describes cruel and indifferent treatment by the soldiers and the fear and determination of the primary student protesters. This book could not be more important during a time like this, following the recent attempts by the south Korean president to enact martial law and the conflict in countries like Gaza and Ukraine. This is not a long book, but it is an important book.
Recommended by jack edwards
Recommended by jack edwards
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and War
Havoc by Christopher Bollen
4.5
This story follows a new trend of fiction, particularly thriller/crime fiction, with an elderly protagonist.
We follow Maggie Burkhardt at the Royal Karnak, someone who takes it upon herself to meddle in the lives of other hotel guests in the aim of freeing them from their doomed relationships. We are introduced to Otto, a boy who finds out about her secret role.
Maggie is the protagonist and through her narration we come to dislike and despise Otto, as we watch the escalation in their revenges it reaches a climax and lives are ruined. Maggie is an unreliable narrator as we find out, but I am someone who dislikes abrupt and ambiguous endings so I wish it was more clearer. Ultimately Otto is evil and I hate him, also his mother and Zacks constant excuse and inability to see ottos disturbing behaviour was infuriating.
I enjoyed the story but it did take a while to get into the story and there were some parts where it did drag and nothing much happened, but it was interesting and I liked it.
Also this book is set during the COVID lockdown so there is a lot of mention of it which was jarring, it's not something I want to read so be warned
We follow Maggie Burkhardt at the Royal Karnak, someone who takes it upon herself to meddle in the lives of other hotel guests in the aim of freeing them from their doomed relationships. We are introduced to Otto, a boy who finds out about her secret role.
Maggie is the protagonist and through her narration we come to dislike and despise Otto, as we watch the escalation in their revenges it reaches a climax and lives are ruined. Maggie is an unreliable narrator as we find out, but I am someone who dislikes abrupt and ambiguous endings so I wish it was more clearer. Ultimately Otto is evil and I hate him, also his mother and Zacks constant excuse and inability to see ottos disturbing behaviour was infuriating.
I enjoyed the story but it did take a while to get into the story and there were some parts where it did drag and nothing much happened, but it was interesting and I liked it.
Also this book is set during the COVID lockdown so there is a lot of mention of it which was jarring, it's not something I want to read so be warned
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, and Murder