Reviews tagging 'Death'

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

120 reviews

melreadsandrecs's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Dementia

9/11, 2011 Tsunami, WWII Japan

erose99's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

blyttgh's review against another edition

5.0

09/01/24 the provenance of a story, the intimacy of knowing a stranger, post mortem exhumation

I’m reaching forward through time to touch you… you’re reaching back to touch me. 

He described it as a collaboration with time and place, whose outcome neither he nor any of his contemporaries works ever live to witness, but he was okay with not knowing.

61 

unbounded nature of not knowing

Appendix B

It was hard to get a sense from the diary of the texture of time passing. No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of life lived

64

it doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

79-80

If you’ve ever tried to keep a diary, then you’ll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how far you write, you’re always stuck in the then and you can never catch up to what’s happening now, which means that now is pretty much doomed to extinction. It’s hopeless, really. Not that now is ever all that interesting. Now is usually just me, sitting in some dumpy café… moving a pen back and forth a hundred billion times across a page, trying to catch up with myself. 

97-98  

I felt a sense of calm, knowing that all these creatures had lived and died before me, leaving almost no trace. 

265 

I got confused. In my mind, she’s still sixteen. She’ll always be sixteen.

The eternal now. She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point.

Of writing?

Or suicide.

I’ve always thought of writing as the opposite of suicide. That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it.

314 

The amount of ink I waste on foolish outpourings, smashing clocks in my mind, crying out in my imagination. Forget the clock. It has no power over time, but words do, and now I am tempted to to rip up these pages. Is this how I want to be remembered? By these words? By you? 

322-323

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Rape, and Suicide

mx_frizzle's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is one of my favorite books I've ever read. Incredibly compelling, reflective, and just generally spectacular.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ghilimei's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and War

szuum's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Animal death, Rape, Sexual content, and Dementia

smdey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

read all the trigger warnings before reading, but this book is beautiful and complex. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

vitasf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Torture, and War

irislovescats's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Great writing, toward the end the themes got very heavy and challenging to read thus my lowered rating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Rape, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fatphobia