My Year of Rest and Relaxation is one of those books where you can’t put it down, but when you’re done, you’re not entirely sure if you liked it (or even what just happened). But in the end, I do think I liked this one. It felt very…Margaret Atwood-esque. “Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn. I would […]
If I had been a man, I may have turned to a life of crime. But I looked like an off-duty model. It was too easy to let things come easy and go nowhere
Ottessa Moshfegh books are pretty divisive I imagine. I have to only imagine since I have loved all of them, this one the most, but I can also see how unpleasant they might come across. I don’t think you have to like the narrator of this novel to be absolutely mesmerized by her and this narrative. It’s about a woman who recently graduated from Columbia trying to sleep away all of fall of 2000 and the most of 2001 using a potent concoction of various […]
Episode 1-19: Going Insane, Got No Brain
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/14/episode-1-19-going-insane-got-no-brain/ Wherein I review: 67. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan 68. Deranged: The Shocking True Store of America’s Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter 69. Lies, Damned Lies, and History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #7) by Jodi Taylor 70. Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson 71. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh Lots of crazies up in this piece. Apollo finds his third Emperor. Harold Schechter scribbles about Albert Fish. Jodi Taylor soldiers on through the time travel. […]
You’d have expected me to be just a minor character in this saga
This is a tough one to review. I really liked reading it, but in the end, it felt as though the exposition was finally wrapped up, and now I was ready for the story. But actually, the book was over. Not that there isn’t enough movement in Eileen, it’s just that the narrator tells us very early in the book that this is the story of her final days trapped in her terrible and sad life as she was raised – or more accurately, grew […]