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caitlancole's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse
leontyna's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
It took me a bit to get used to the style of the narration but overall it was interesting, it felt both like a peek into teen mind and at the same time an adult's reflection upon what happened.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse
lucycreedon's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Violence
andthenweread's review against another edition
4.0
“the worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”
this book, though quite short, gave me some insights into a traumatic event that took place in the author’s childhood. it was also interesting to learn about her day-to-day lived experience of growing up lower-class in france in 1952, when she was twelve. this was my second annie ernaux read and i’m looking forward to getting to her others!
this book, though quite short, gave me some insights into a traumatic event that took place in the author’s childhood. it was also interesting to learn about her day-to-day lived experience of growing up lower-class in france in 1952, when she was twelve. this was my second annie ernaux read and i’m looking forward to getting to her others!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse
crazytourists_books's review against another edition
fast-paced
1.5
Το βιβλίο ξεκινά με μια πραγματική βόμβα στην πρώτη πρώτη σελίδα και μετά ξεφουσκώνει σε μια βαρετή, επίπεδη αφήγηση.
Πέρασε και δεν ακούμπησε, δυστυχώς.
Πέρασε και δεν ακούμπησε, δυστυχώς.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse
soparosa's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Muy interesante si te interesa la religión y la clase obrera, todo esto bajo el contexto de Francia en los años 50. La diferencia entre la sociedad francesa y española no es para nada tan notable como supuse que sería, lo que hace que, incluso si el lenguaje puede resultar frío y desapegado -probablemente debido a no estar en su lengua original-, los lectores podamos sentir cierta conexión con las vivencias de la autora. Plantea temas que dan mucho que pensar a la par que transmite la sensación de incertidumbre y engorro que la escritora vivía a diario en aquella época, lo que nos deja insatisfechos pero también enganchados.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Classism
Moderate: Misogyny
girvanryan's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying and Domestic abuse
ameliasbooks's review against another edition
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
The parts when Ernaux reflects on her situation as a child, about what made her upbringing different and how long it took her to understand that, because she had no one from a different class to compare herself to, were the strongest parts in this book. What was considered to be important, how to behave and how to pretend. Apart from that this was the weakest of the ones I've read by this author so far for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Religious bigotry
americattt's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
“For me and no doubt many of my contemporaries, memories are associated with ephemeral things such as a fashionable belt or a summer hit and therefore the act of remembering can do nothing to reaffirm my sense of identity or continuity. It can only confirm the fragmented nature of my life and the belief that I belong to history.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Minor: War
lu_fer_merino's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence