“I was too awake, it was all taking too long. I turned into a feral position. A loneliness that can be rocked. The great female tragedy. My mother, my love. It was too late. I ate books. I could live here”.
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“I was too awake, it was all taking too long. I turned into a feral position. A loneliness that can be rocked. The great female tragedy. My mother, my love. It was too late. I ate books. I could live here”.
“I don‘t think I‘d heard of Prozac before, it was still so new. There was nothing like the so-called direct-to-consumer advertising we‘re so used to now. A few years later there would be books : Peter D. Kramer ‘s Listening to Prozac and Elizabeth Wurtzel‘s Prozac Nation. And soon after those creepy commercials. Ask your doctor if Zoloft might be right for you. Etc”.
Yup, yup, yup!
pickI love when books have the ability to shock me, this one certainly did!
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panBrought up some interesting questions about the futility of life and how ”to live is an act of violence”. But overall this book felt half baked, hollow and translated with zero emotions.
Does this book deserve the Booker Prize? Honestly, I didn‘t feel so. But, to each their own.
pickThis novel is a fictionalized, exaggerated and distorted telling of a dark period of the life of its author, Plath. This is a relatable account This is my 4th read. Each time, I want the real woman to live and be the bad girl poet she wanted to be instead of a wife and mother. Each time, I hope that the real woman‘s life ends differently than it did. I guess that‘s a definition of my own madness.
pickI finally picked up a Han Kang book. She sure punches a lot into such a short novel. I think this is the first book I‘ve read about anorexia. Yeong-hye begins having dreams and becomes vegetarian. Mental health and trauma plays a big part. The story is told by multiple POV‘s, all infuriated with Yeong-hye‘s decision to go against the grain of society.
Starting my Han Kang journey…
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pickI really liked this book. I thought it was a really great view of a woman‘s struggle with mental health, but also her relationships as a woman. She combines a look at her issues along with her experiences relating to men and reflects on this and also raises a lot of thought provoking things about what it is to be a woman who struggles with mental health. Very brave to share and finish.
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