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Почему авторы-мужчины любят изображать женщин истеричками…

Right well that’s fucking horrific

This book probably would have been more interesting if it followed the older son once he left, seeing a rebellion from the pov of a mother staying in her house with her kids acting out very slightly isn’t exactly a riveting concept

Would he ever fuck off with the worm

I didn’t think I cared that much about imagery or descriptions until there were none. ‘She wakes up to the sound of war’, alright that’s chill sure.

Devastated to realize this is written in a style I HATE aka no paragraph breaks and no quotation marks around dialogue. I think the amount of difficulty this creates in focusing and understanding what is happening outweighs the author's attempt to create a certain mood.

أواجه صعوبة في فهم السياق الديستوبي للكتاب.
ربما لأنها أحداث حقيقية في مكان آخر

Ugh her kids are annoying shits and whenever the daughter stands up for the mother, the mother treats her like shit. Typical Irish bollix dynamics with Irish mothers and their shithead sons

Paragraphs are a social construct

I think I’m going for a very, very, personally, rare DNF on this one. Maybe I started reading it in the wrong moment (remember when riots were being stoked outside asylum seeker accommodations) or maybe I just couldn’t hack how incredibly hard every single sentence was written.

главная героиня очень бесит

I want to love this but so far it’s a bit slow and domestic considering it’s a police state situation, I hope it picks up but bit of a drag so far. Characters are whatever and have gotten used to the way it’s written now but still don’t love it.

Uzun, nefessiz cümleler beni boğuyor. Okurken göğsüme bir ağırlık oturuyor. Hem kaçmak istiyorum kitaptan elimden bırakıyorum ama devam etmek de istiyorum. Başımıza gelmez dediklerimiz ve başımıza gelmiş olanların ağırlığı… Bu nasıl mümkün oluyor?

Well this is extremely relevant right now

Başlangıçtan itibaren atmosfer öyle yoğun ki…
Tek sıkıntım dialoglar… Kim konuşuyor’u anlayana kadar zaman kaybettiriyor, algımı dağıtıyor…alışana kadar sanırım…

this is picking up rather quickly…

Taking a break from this upsetting book to read a bit of another upsetting book. Why am I doing this to myself...

Feels like Orwell's 1984, but set in modern Ireland. I'm terrified, but can't stop reading.

The writing style is just like Sally Rooney. If you don't enjoy her writing (no quotation marks), you will not like this. I personally love it, but I get the annoyance some people have of this style.

JEZUS CALL ME PETTY ALE
"Mężczyzna otwiera drzwi, trzymając za obrożę ciemnego, masywnego psa, Eilish myśli, że to pręgowany bokser, [...]"
JAK MYSLI ZE TO PREGOWANY BOKSER ROZUMIEm ZE MOZE MYSLEC ZE TO BOKSER ALE CHYBA WIDAC CZY JEST PREGOWANY CZY NIE 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

https://open.spotify.com/track/1j8nEn...

Kind of reminds me of a certain organisation in muricah that bears a name similar to that of the solid state of water ❤️

O beni bitirdi ve sonunda da ben onu. Sıkıntılı bir kitap olduğu aşikar ve böyle sıkıntılı bir dönemden geçerken okumak çok yordu beni. Anlattığı şeyler uzak değil, bu gerçeği yaşıyoruz. Bir annenin çırpınışını okumak çok çaresiz hissettirdi, kolay empati yapılabilir bir karakter. Yazım tarzının da etkili olduğunu söyleyebilirim tüm bu olumsuzluklara. Bittiği için mutluyum.

Ну, написано красиво. Но как антиутопия — 1 звезда. Совсем неинтересно сейчас читать антиутопии, где мир не описан никак. Фашисты пришли к власти. Зевок.

No quotation marks in a book is very weird.

I really should have looked up what this book was about before I read it. Absolutely gutting. Hits too close to home.

this book is kinda like the film I'm Still Here but infinitely worse

A very difficult book to read right now. When the government takes over and your family is a victim how do you respond. Not sure I can continue but it is one of the few books I brought with me on this trip. Feels more dystopian than historical fiction. The troubles are all around us. How do we respond?

"What I see now, Eilish, is a black hole opening before us, we have passed the boundary of escape and even when the regime has been overturned the black hole will continue to grow so that it will consume this country for decades."

"They are calling it an insurgency on the international news... but if you want to give war its proper name, call it entertainment, we are now TV for the rest of the world."

This book is genuinely SO GOOD