I can't believe I waited so long to read this book. Once I started, it was a full-on race to the end. I regret that I didn’t come across this book as a child, but I am happy that I at least got to finally read at this point if my life. “We all started out as children” like the story said but have become silly and odd grown ups who’ve forgotten to dream of dreams. This book is beautiful and marvelous and I am glad to have read it! ☺️🥹

I knew what to expect from the book, base off from Jane Campion’s 2021 film adaptation, with that: this book was beautifully crafted and yet flinching at times to read. This book I believe is underrated and should be a must read at least once in your TBR. I can’t describe it more, other than quote an afterword 4rm the book: “A psychological study freighted with drama and tension, unusual in dealing with a topic rarely discussed in that period repressed homosexuality displayed as homophobia in the masculine ranch world.” — Thomas Savage works is — “Something aching and lonely and terrible of the west is caught forever on his pages, and the most compelling and painful of these books is The Power of the Dog, a work of literary art.” ☺️

Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen matches Hitchcock’s suspense. Taking days to its finale of Eileen infatuations of others and cutting herself from her abusive alcoholic father. Eileen shows us how loneliness and obsession can be a build to a point where it breaks you down, or can lead to another elevated level that can lead to a rabbit hole of rabbit holes. Though this story is a slow pace, near towards the end, it’ll leave you shock of how we all have dark corners in our minds and we all have a death mask like Eileen, to deflect from terrible situations.