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A review by sofiaoh
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
it's funny, reading this was a kinda laborious process (not really because of this, i'm just in a reading slump 🫤) and i was convinced i was going to feel nothing about this, at best, by the end. safe to say, changed my mind about this! i also think switching from audio to phyical helped a lot.
i have similar feelings about this book that i do with big girl by mecca sullivan. the process of reading wasn't the most enjoyable per se but after finishing and taking a step back to look at the work as a whole, the sum of its parts was really great. sometimes you gotta look at the forest and not just the trees.
writing never an issue. love deborah levy's prose, really works for me. it was languid but not light, it sort of felt like wading through water with clothes on. fluid, but not seamless. quality wise, always a five star (which tbh bumps my overall rating).
i do want to try re-reading this in the future, maybe when my mindset isnt hindered by a lack of burning desire to read 😓 in ideal circumstances i could see myself zipping through this.
i have similar feelings about this book that i do with big girl by mecca sullivan. the process of reading wasn't the most enjoyable per se but after finishing and taking a step back to look at the work as a whole, the sum of its parts was really great. sometimes you gotta look at the forest and not just the trees.
writing never an issue. love deborah levy's prose, really works for me. it was languid but not light, it sort of felt like wading through water with clothes on. fluid, but not seamless. quality wise, always a five star (which tbh bumps my overall rating).
i do want to try re-reading this in the future, maybe when my mindset isnt hindered by a lack of burning desire to read 😓 in ideal circumstances i could see myself zipping through this.