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sargasso_c's Reviews (516)
A book that will resonate with every woman and everyone who has been silenced and everyone who has been hurt and everyone who lost the person that they thought was their Person and .... everyone.
Kaur relates her life in four parts and while I believe she never stops hurting she has turned her hurt into something that the rest of us can find our hurt in. She has transcended that hurt to live a life of highs and lows, aiming mostly - I think - for highs.
Kaur relates her life in four parts and while I believe she never stops hurting she has turned her hurt into something that the rest of us can find our hurt in. She has transcended that hurt to live a life of highs and lows, aiming mostly - I think - for highs.
In Helen Oyeyemi's works I've found everything I've ever wanted. In this particular book, I've found love, confusion, indifference, indecision, and a bevy of keys in many different forms. Oyeyemi is an utter master of short stories and I don't doubt for a second that children two hundred and fifty years from now will be reading her stories like we now read Snow White and Cinderella. Only, I believe that children two hundred and fifty years from now will gain from their reading a much deeper insight into what it means to be human.
As if subtly hard-hitting and pithy writing wasn't enough, Oyeyemi does something that it is still rare for an author to do: casually and naturally writes diverse characters into narratives. That is something that I would like to someday personally thank her for.
As if subtly hard-hitting and pithy writing wasn't enough, Oyeyemi does something that it is still rare for an author to do: casually and naturally writes diverse characters into narratives. That is something that I would like to someday personally thank her for.
This is a book ridiculous in its ability to emote. It was my introduction to Patrick Ness eight years ago and to this day I am still raving about and recommending the book to anyone who will listen. The emotions run deep in this novel, and they bring your own heart along every step of the way. With impeccable -- though not alienating, -- language Ness takes the reader on a journey through a planet's short history and through the very worst that man (and a man) is capable of. There are few characters that it is easy to hate in this book, and the characters you love will bring you close to tears with the choices they make. An incredible beginning to a timeless series.
Eveningland was a book that embodied its title with enthusiasm. One gets a sense of being perpetually in the evening of the south, in the presence of resilient characters who are also fading. A novel in which the incomplete lends itself to a feeling of wholeness, a fitting tribute to Alabama and the south in general.
This book touched me in a way that I did not at all expect. It has all the juicy guilty-pleasures of a spicy summer novel without compromising the very serious and pertinent subjects that the book also addresses.
What I love most about this novel by Joshilyn Jackson is that while it is a romance novel, a mystery, a social commentary, and a bit of a comedy, Jackson is able to fluidly weave her words into and out of these categories with ease. She can elegantly introduce tragedy while you're still chuckling over a pithy comment Leia has made regarding the value of a colorful scarf or some batman ears.
Speaking of Leia, she is so much of what I love in a female lead. Though Leia is "nerd-famous" she remains relatable in the most delightful of ways without pandering to the commonalities that every reader shares. Put a simpler way: you will definitely like Leia even though you might not be like Leia (though you've most likely thought many of her thoughts). In fact, all of Jackson's characters are very real. They are not real because she hyper-explains each and every node of their personality and mannerisms, hopes and dreams. No, they are real because of the few tidbits she allows us along the way. Relationships that play key parts in the book feel as if you've known their dynamics for years, and not as if they were just explained to you pages before.
This novel calls out the ugliness of the South while still retaining a painful love for the region, like the honest mother of a wayward child. The novel itself is an ataractic balm on a wound that I -- and I believe many others -- have been trying my best to live with for years.
What I love most about this novel by Joshilyn Jackson is that while it is a romance novel, a mystery, a social commentary, and a bit of a comedy, Jackson is able to fluidly weave her words into and out of these categories with ease. She can elegantly introduce tragedy while you're still chuckling over a pithy comment Leia has made regarding the value of a colorful scarf or some batman ears.
Speaking of Leia, she is so much of what I love in a female lead. Though Leia is "nerd-famous" she remains relatable in the most delightful of ways without pandering to the commonalities that every reader shares. Put a simpler way: you will definitely like Leia even though you might not be like Leia (though you've most likely thought many of her thoughts). In fact, all of Jackson's characters are very real. They are not real because she hyper-explains each and every node of their personality and mannerisms, hopes and dreams. No, they are real because of the few tidbits she allows us along the way. Relationships that play key parts in the book feel as if you've known their dynamics for years, and not as if they were just explained to you pages before.
This novel calls out the ugliness of the South while still retaining a painful love for the region, like the honest mother of a wayward child. The novel itself is an ataractic balm on a wound that I -- and I believe many others -- have been trying my best to live with for years.