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challenging
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The wall
"Where I was looking for myself, I couldn't find myself"
It's one of these books where you don't highlight anything because every single line is very meaningful.
The wall (1) is a story about life and hopelessness. A story that shows us that everyone is equal before death and death is inevitable. Everything is important only when we are alive and experience the moment, later all moments are just empty memories.
The room (2) is a story of mental health and how hard and terrifying and unpredictable can be a life with mentally unstable people. It's a story about parents who don't know how to help their daughter and about the daughter who doesn't know how to help herself. It's about co-dependence and slow paced losing of mind.
Erostratus (3) is an investigation of the nature of a murder and why an ordinary person can commit it. It's a story about a superiority complex, power and hate towards both oneself and people. Freedom, fame, hate, loneliness, hopelessness and void are contrasted and we read a psychological portrait of solitude and disappointment.
Intimacy (4) the independence of bodies, the investigation of sexuality and female friendship, the question of safety and independence in relationships. The characters try to understand happiness and freedom, how to live after the break up and how life is a wave and never gives us a chance to breathe. A story about loss, duty, love and how they can be confused with one another.
The Childhood of a Leader (5) gender identity, sexuality, internalised homophobia and how society shapes out perception of ourselves, the question of love and whether we should love our parents just because they are out parents. This story in a very interesting way investigates a child's identity crisis and how it can change not only the behaviour but the entire childhood. Growing up and how unnatural and weird the world may be. The investigation of self, psychoanalysis and revelations about your own psyche and self-philosophy.
"Where I was looking for myself, I couldn't find myself"
It's one of these books where you don't highlight anything because every single line is very meaningful.
The wall (1) is a story about life and hopelessness. A story that shows us that everyone is equal before death and death is inevitable. Everything is important only when we are alive and experience the moment, later all moments are just empty memories.
The room (2) is a story of mental health and how hard and terrifying and unpredictable can be a life with mentally unstable people. It's a story about parents who don't know how to help their daughter and about the daughter who doesn't know how to help herself. It's about co-dependence and slow paced losing of mind.
Erostratus (3) is an investigation of the nature of a murder and why an ordinary person can commit it. It's a story about a superiority complex, power and hate towards both oneself and people. Freedom, fame, hate, loneliness, hopelessness and void are contrasted and we read a psychological portrait of solitude and disappointment.
Intimacy (4) the independence of bodies, the investigation of sexuality and female friendship, the question of safety and independence in relationships. The characters try to understand happiness and freedom, how to live after the break up and how life is a wave and never gives us a chance to breathe. A story about loss, duty, love and how they can be confused with one another.
The Childhood of a Leader (5) gender identity, sexuality, internalised homophobia and how society shapes out perception of ourselves, the question of love and whether we should love our parents just because they are out parents. This story in a very interesting way investigates a child's identity crisis and how it can change not only the behaviour but the entire childhood. Growing up and how unnatural and weird the world may be. The investigation of self, psychoanalysis and revelations about your own psyche and self-philosophy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Racial slurs, and Violence
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