tiktok told me to read these books for ✨hot girl summer✨ and now i'm insufferable 

And we also need it girl spring

exactly!! I hate seeing this book recommended as just a "sad book" when this book is full of very heavy and complex topics that can really take a toll on people as they read it

Fr

people ask me very frequently if i think they should read it and my answer is "only if and when your mental health is okay, and please heed the trigger warnings" bc i cannot in good conscience just be like "YEAH LOL READ IT!!!"

YES!! I tell EVERYONE that I cannot recommend that book in good conscience

i bought it 3 days ago, read the first chapter and decided to wait a few months.... until summer 😭 well uh... oops

Exactly

Agreed

lol the netherlands just skipped the summer weather this year

think you're taking the phrase too literally lol

i read the book then binged the series, they’re both so good

watch the series, it's so much better than the book IMO. Still depressing and very "white privileged first world problems" though

@Anjali Figueiredo The depressing feeling of it is what attracted me to it haha. I haven’t heard of the other book, I will check it out too!

@@user-qu8zs7vs1x Agreed. The book read like a dull YA novel to me. The show was much more entertaining.

@@user-qu8zs7vs1x what a weird description. Do people think this type of description makes them score points or something? You think people of color don't experience the difficulties and melancholies of growing up, abusive homes, complicated romantic and platonic relationships?

good point, thank you!

finally someone else who disliked her books!!

@@allislindstrom7662 yall not that special tho..

I found Normal people so insufferable… As an autistic person, someone whose brain structure literally differs from the norm and has to deal with the consequences of that every, it was quite ridiculous to see these two extremely privileged characters acting as if they’re so quirky and different and act so fucking self-righteous about it… I can still hear in my head Connell’s pathetic, self-pitying spiel about how everyone in his class were lazy and stupid because they participated in class whilst he’s too awkward to talk in class… The nerve theses characters have to just blame their own limitations on everyone around them instead of facing their own narcissism…

@@dhihyakhalifah6138 take your rude remarks somewhere else

@@allislindstrom7662 if you check google reviews, you will see that many many many people disliked her books. I personally loved normal people, but I also love reading terrible reviews of things I hate. Enjoy the bad reviews :)

Same there’s something super aesthetically pleasing about them to me

I just finished Silent Patient...and 🤫 Let's talk when you finish as I don't wanna give spoilers..

@@alexsteel6034 just finished it last night omg!!! That plot twist 😳 I can't spoil for others but I was freaking out

@@tanyaroberts919 I actually listened to the audiobook...And the narrator's voice is still creeping in my brain. It was my mistake that I chose audiobook instead of physical one. The psychotherapist was mad in my opinion or may be he was influenced by his father. I actually didn't like how often he used to talk about his father like he wants to be in his past.

@@alexsteel6034 I know!! Me too. I loved the way it was written though. How the times were not separated until her sees her in the window. It was so creepy and awesome all at once it made his previous obsession more appropriate

@@tanyaroberts919 Yes, I liked the way it was written and the writer did a very good job in portraying the trauma one can suffer on various circumstances. I feel pity for the woman Alicia.

I hear ya, from Melbourne.

what specifically was wrong with the writing for you bc ive been thinking about reading

@@Mandyn8868 that’s a hard question to answer especially since this was my personal experience but I’ll try to articulate my problems. Because this story is set in New York, between the years 2000-01, it obviously covers 9/11. But since the character is so detached and borderline sociopathic, she is nonplussed by the horrors - which just rubbed me the wrong way. And although I like my books to be dark and surreal, this just felt like lazy writing to me. The character is doped up with drugs so obviously her worldview would be flat and deadened. But she started to grate on me by the middle of the book because she seemed to have no other trait other than her drug habit. I didn’t understand what the point of this book was after the author had established, very early on, what the character’s motivations and intentions, were. There seemed to be this repetition of the same behaviour written into different plot points which, to me, were boring. Other characters were equally flat - in that, they, too, were caricatures of themselves, having no other traits other than the ones we find out very early on in the story. Have you read Wide Sargasso Sea? To me, that’s the best example of a mad, unhinged character because Jean Rhys tells the story from the character’s childhood up until she loses her mind - all under 200 pages. That book honestly speaks for itself and, although these are two very different books in many respects, My Year of Rest and Relaxation utterly fails to hit as hard as that book did in its exploration of mental disintegration.

@@ShivangiBhasin you like unlikeable characters with no redemption but were rubbed up the wrong way by the narrators attitute to 9/11?? sounds like you dont actually enjoy what you claim you do

I actually loved the writing

@@gabiocampos I’m currently reading her book Eileen and I’m enjoying is far more than My Year..💁🏻‍♀️ glad to know that I can enjoy her writing even though I didn’t have the best experience with my first book of hers

I kind of agree though, it's currently DNF'd on my shelf because I just couldn't understand why am I reading all these people's stories? It is fully character driven, and no clear plot can make it hard to hang on, and keep track of characters

@@suzy9323 indeed

Lmfao

@@pranveramulgeci5242 I mean, hating english is a third world smart girl shit lmao

Are u Brazilian?

@@r4.v3n sim

my life goal is having a library like they do

Também!

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