This is just me, but apparently I HATE, LOATHE “quirky, fiesty women who say fuck every 3 lines and hate the world and hate life” books. THE QUIRKIER takes on complex issues and mental health issues I just can’t stand them.
I give these books a chance, but can’t get through the first few pages. They’re often advertised as complex and exploring complex women issues and nuances but then I get through the book and I’m like, did I miss something? Where was…the depth…exactly..? Did I miss the mark..?
This comes while reading “motherthing” by Ainslie Hogarth – I couldn’t finish it but I read most of it and I just can’t. It promised complex mother-in law hates daughter relationship. But I got no depth man. Nothing. It was just annoying. It appealed to many people ofc, as I saw on goodreads, but I didn’t like it personally.
Books of the likes of “My year of rest and relaxation” basically..
I realise these books are written with satire at times, or a reallllly unlikeable narrator intentionally – to illustrate the point in a more indirect way. But still. I don’t like it.
I get it, these essay-y books are WRITTEN to depict female rage and the complexity of woman…but like…I read them and wonder what I missed because they feel so surface level?
Which is to say, THIS GENRE MAY APPEAL TO SOME…it just doesn’t to me. That’s all.
I’m looking for complex human experience, specifically women..Sylvia Plath – a Little Life-esque.
I haven’t read Girl Interrupted.
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by isolophiliacwhiliac
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Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
girl who saved the king of sweden. The protagonist, Nombeko, is a girl who came from extreme poverty and defied all odds to make a good life for herself. The book is quirky, cartoony at times, very enjoyable. I have a soft spot for Nombeko and how she was written
The Secret History by Donna Tartt!
Have you read Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver? Might work for you.
The Break by Katherena Vermette is fantastic.