Joana Gouin itibaren Lomiai, Lithuania

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12/22/2024

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2019-10-21 17:40

Valler Xd450 Elektro Davul TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Valler

Here's the thing with Prep--I was really excited about reading it. I just loved American Wife A Novel, and I think Sittenfeld is really talented (and she has a wonderful writing style). But if you're going to spend 4 years and 400 pages with a protagonist in first person, you'd better like the character. And frankly, I didn't care for teenager Lee Flora. From pretty much freshman year on at her tony New England prep school (where she's on scholarship), Lee is a self-loathing, insecure nobody sitting at her own table, pity party of one. Yes, she's thoughtful and insightful, but even she says she's surprised when people like her because she thinks she's so unlikable. Hey Lee--you're right. And she doesn't show much growth through the four years! I know that many of us felt angst and stress in high school, but the book never clearly answers (at least not to my satisfaction) why she would leave her family in the midwest to go to a school she can't afford full of snobby rich people that she doesn't like. And holy crap, Lee is just so internally talky. She overthinks EVERYTHING and she's so self-involved! She claims to want to fade into the woodwork but then complains when no one likes her or boys don't pay attention to her. And frankly, I thought the other students were pretty thinly characterized. The most well-rounded character is Lee (obviously) and I thought her parents (whom I liked, and really wished they had smacked Lee around a bit for being such a pill), but the other students seemed vaguely like stereotypes and Lee was only the one insightful, brave and self-righteous enough to call them out on their obvious snobbery. I thought the book was a little tedious and believed Sittenfeld thought the reader would identify with poor Lee because she was ignored and put upon. But since I found her to be the architect of her own exclusion, I thought she was kind of a whiner. I was happy when I finally finished it. That's not right! Huh...now having just read through a bunch of goodreads reviews, I can see others agree with me. I should've read those first!

2019-10-21 18:40

Punk Felsefesi Gürültünün Ötesinde TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Craig O'Hara

In Katherine Center's second novel she tackles the concepts of beauty and identity after marriage and motherhood. Elena is the mother of three rambunctious boys and married to Peter, the classical composer and pianist. "Lanie", as she is called, is uprooted and trying to survive after a move from Houston to Cambridge, Mass. She's starting to realize that she isn't sure who she is anymore and when a fellow mother asks the non-pregnant Lanie when she is due, something flips inside her. Through very realistic and graphic (poop, vomit, and other bodily fluids abound) language, Center and Lanie convey the upside-down feeling of being a young mother and wife and trying to remember who "you" really is. Lanie is portrayed with enough of an combination of innocence, sarcasm and desperation that even those who've never experienced child-rearing will be able to connect with her. Along the way we find that marriage after children is constant work, general hygiene may not always be a priority in life, and that it is the mistakes, the "should-haves" that make each person unique and beautiful and that love finds a way, regardless of outward-seeming circumstances. I would definitely recommend this and Center's first book "The Bright Side of Disaster", as must-reads for all my female friends and maybe even some male friends for insight into the human and female condition of life and love.

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