Sometimes you just HATE one
Jan. 21st, 2019 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inanhourofdreamingI have actual work to do that I've been putting off all weekend because I am an absolute and utter procrastinator and so I decided to read some of the book my friends from law school had picked out to read together and WOW WAS IT NOT FOR ME. I ended up pushing through the whole thing because I just wanted it DONE. But anyway:
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin: This books was SO. DEPRESSING. It's about a Jewish family who grow up in NYC and go to see a fortune teller, who tells each of them the day they will die. The book is then split into four parts, each following one of the siblings. It's an interesting premise but ya'll -- if you want a book with some joy in it this is not for you. Each person, aside from one, appears to be unhappy and just...ugh. It was all solidly well-written but nothing really stood out to me as particularly memorable. There was very little light to balance out the slog of most of it. Basically, it fell into the trap I find a lot of stories fall into, which is that it mistakes unlikable characters and the slog of unhappiness as being somehow, in itself, adult, or deep. Basically, this is not on my recommend list.
My plan is to reread a few chapters of Spinning Silver tonight after finishing this work so I can clear my mental pallet with something I know I loved.
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin: This books was SO. DEPRESSING. It's about a Jewish family who grow up in NYC and go to see a fortune teller, who tells each of them the day they will die. The book is then split into four parts, each following one of the siblings. It's an interesting premise but ya'll -- if you want a book with some joy in it this is not for you. Each person, aside from one, appears to be unhappy and just...ugh. It was all solidly well-written but nothing really stood out to me as particularly memorable. There was very little light to balance out the slog of most of it. Basically, it fell into the trap I find a lot of stories fall into, which is that it mistakes unlikable characters and the slog of unhappiness as being somehow, in itself, adult, or deep. Basically, this is not on my recommend list.
My plan is to reread a few chapters of Spinning Silver tonight after finishing this work so I can clear my mental pallet with something I know I loved.
