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sundayfever's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Classism
Minor: War
lasivaranasi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Dennoch habe ich die Schreibstil geliebt und viele Sätze und Analogien markiert, um sie mir zu behalten. Alles in allem ein gutes Buch. Ich würde es jedoch nicht empfehlen, wenn man es in Buch lesen möchte in dem viel passiert/ sich die Charaktere stark weiterentwickeln.
Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, and War
Moderate: Child abuse and Child death
scmiller's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
2.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Infertility, Pedophilia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and War
Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Alcohol
seventhswan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
I do wish the novel hadn't opened with
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Animal death and Child death
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Racism, and War
mollybryann's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
“When I was first married to Earl, he often took pleasure in teaching me things that I had not known. Once, he explained to me about the Mohs scale, which was used to test the hardness of minerals and gems. Diamond is the hardest, he said, and diamond can scratch any gem on the scale, but every other gem can leave only a scrape on those softer than itself. None of them would do anything to a diamond. Perhaps I was born a material different from my parents. I was born a hard person, harder than most people in my life, so I have only myself to blame when I cannot feel the love of others, my parents among them. Love from those who cannot damage us irreparably often feels insufficient; we may think, rightly or wrongly, that their love does not matter at all.” “But her personality, I now understand, was impaired by her desire to be good and to be right. To be good was in her nature. She took genuine pleasure in being good. However, where does the desire to be right lead one, if not to the wrong place? Knowing Mrs. Townsend's mind and speaking on her behalf-these Catalina did with perfect ease and confidence, as she must have spoken on behalf of other authorities before Woodsway, and would continue to do so after Woodsway. I was too young then to dread a person like her. I have since encountered other versions of Catalina; each time I have to reeducate myself in avoiding people's good intentions.”applesodaperson's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Read from the BYU library.
Moderate: Death
Minor: Sexual assault and War
graceesford's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Classism
yoursam's review against another edition
4.0
It baffles me that often songs and poems are written about love at first sight: those who claim to experience the phenomena have preened themselves, ready for love. There is nothing extraordinary about that. Childhood friendship, much more fatal, simply happens.
the book of goose is sort of about that. but, more specifically, it's about why it's all so painful. it's about the before, the lead up. it's about teenage girls and how intense their relationships can be. possessive, obsessive. teenage girls that are sometimes not as likeable as most want them to be, with their ugly urges and ugly wants.
But I had loved her all my life. I had loved her before we knew what the world was, what love was, and who we ourselves were.
alright rambling (and praise for this part of the book) aside, there are some things i didn't particularly love. not stuff that i hated, mind you, just things that brought down my enjoyment.
How could Fabienne and I have been fair to him when we were young? How could we have been fair to anyone but ourselves?
last thing actually, while i love the title i do believe there might have been better ones for this particular story in the text itself <3 then again what do i know about choosing a book title lmao
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Animal cruelty, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, and War
none of the content warnings are spoilers for the book, i promise. and everything is dealt with that kind of teenage ease; throwaway lines and the idea of some stuff just being 'a part of life'.mondovertigo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Toxic friendship, War, and Classism
Minor: Pregnancy
hilaryreadsbooks's review against another edition
4.0
In a small, rural town of France, two girls, Agnès and Fabienne, create their own private worlds. Fabienne—willful, unruly, and unsettling to all but Agnès—dreams up games and imaginary experiences that reality can’t hold, and Agnès follows along dutifully and with a strange obsessiveness. Eventually, Fabienne dreams up a new game, writing a book filled with morbid tales, a game that will have startling effects in the real world and send Agnès on a whirlwind adventure based upon deceit and lies.
I loved Li’s different portrayals of exploitation. There’s exploitation of children by adults, both by the public and in private. There’s exploitation of children by children. And there’s also the exploitation of cold, cold reality on childlike dreams—a coming-of-age, you can say, or the most terrible way to realize that magic and happy endings and the complete freedom to stretch out are never real.
Pick up if you’re interested in sharp psychological unravelings, a strong narrative voice, and perhaps Ishiguro’s THE REMAINS OF THE DAY.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Child death and War