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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Start date: December 1, 2020

Finish date: January 30, 2021

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Sep 08, 2020 Carol rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020

This took me a few months to finish. I would hate to say that this book is "too much" because I knew what I was getting into and the author intended for this story to be told. But it was ... a lot. I enjoyed the writing style and there were times when I thought I should just DNF it but it kept calling to me and I just really wanted to see it through and figure out what happened to the characters. ...more

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Jan 25, 2023 Kelly Lyn rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2023-reads

teared up once and cried my eyes out once. I kept getting pissed off at Jude. After finishing the book and closing it, I told my husband every bad thing that happened to Jude from his birth to the end and he asks me how could I read something like that.... I have no damn clue other than it was a struggle bus.

Just thinking about the list of things that he went through, I believe that he was superman to live with all of that trauma for the amount of years.

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Aug 24, 2022 Chad rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I hate this book… 5 stars easily.

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Aug 08, 2020 Madeleine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library-physical-books, favorites, lgbtq

"Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return."

I'm so glad I finally read this! I was scared that I was going to be disappointed, since, in general, people speak so highly of this book, but even with its 720 pages, it was so easy to get through (not for the content, bu ...more

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Apr 20, 2021 Stephanie rated it liked it

My biggest criticism of this book is the whole thing is telling and not showing. The explanations of the character motivations are so overdone and often really unnecessary. We get it! At the same time, I did become quite attached to the characters and invested in their lives. (And cried obviously...)

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