Atheshootingstar
My name's Angel, my favorite genres are lit fic, romance, and vampires, and I'm currently trying to get more into fantasy and horror :D they/them
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I think Disappoint me is an excellent story about life, about people, and many, many, wrong choices. I adore this book for the way it was structured around it's characters, Max and Vincent really do shape the narrative, and they each give a very valuable critique of all its aspects
I thought the premise was a little misleading (the whole trad wife, stairs thing, and how Vincent is hinted at) but it's really like spending time in the protagonists' head, listening to both the bad and the good. My only complaint here is that I felt the story tried to set certain expectations for some individuals. We are meant to like Vincent, we are meant to find Fred a bit concerning, we are meant to love Simone. While these aspects change and develop throughout the book I felt like certain sentiments were either repeated or omitted to make space for said feelings. Perhaps that is a representation of let's say Max's emotional world, but I think we could have seen her feelings develop more naturally (like with Fred, who appears much more nuanced and kind in her parts, and we can tell she has taken a liking to him)
I found the prose beautiful and the commentary thought provoking. There really is no wrong stance to be taken when reading this, and though quite short, it never made me feel like it was anything less than. The audio experience was also wonderful! Max's narrator was absolutely incredible, and though Vincent wasn't my favorite he gave such an emotional composition to the character
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A general question, but where do you all get your recommendations from for books? Every so often I surf a particular sea and look at new releases and like anything that I think sounds interesting or good, I install download it on my kindle or I’ll look through Pinterest for recommendations. But I’m curious as to how everyone finds books to read so please let me know so we can all maybe find recommendations. Any unconventional or unusual ways. Bookshop wandering. I want to hear about everything! ✨
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I’ve really got into literary fiction (I think that’s the genre) this year and I’m wanting to explore it more.
My latest examples are The Lion Women of Tehran (Thankyou readalong) Deviants — Santanu Bhattacharya Wild Swans - Jung Chang (not a lit fic but this memoir vibe I’ll also take) Sunburn - Chloe Michelle-Howarth A Tale for the Time Being (again Thankyou PB)
And obviously A Thousand Splendid Suns & The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (the OGs for me that got me into this rabbit hole)
Essentially I’m after books that feel life changing because of how rooted they are in human connection. Just books that break you and heal you at the same time?
My three faves out of the above are Deviants that as a queer person was just unlike anything I’ve read and truly felt so honest.
A Tale for the Time Being - for any other weirdo girls (or other!) that have had a long battle with MH this truly spoke to me and at the end my age aligns up with one of the characters, truly had me sobbing in comfort that actually maybe I am okay now and happy!
A Thousand Splendid suns - to me a classic for a reason and made me feels closer to women in general (which I love), I’ll talk about it till I’m dead!
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