the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail
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I’m gonna put my Goodreads review of “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” here cause why not. I wanna talk about this book and get other opinions on it. Fuck the: “you either get it or you don’t” cause that shit is annoying.
TERFS DNI
Some spoilers under the cut
3/5 ⭐️
I really enjoyed this book up until Part 7. I felt that it put a really raw depiction of mental illness on display, one that I personally haven’t seen super often. It was honest about how cruel a person can get when they’re so deep into their problems. I really appreciated that. It’s not all “woe woe woe is me I have so many problems and I feel so sorry for myself” it really can be “Screw this and screw everyone else that pities me. Don’t pity me I’m too good for you to feel sorry for me”. I read the narrator as very to the point with a cynical view of everything and everyone around her. She’s incredibly judgemental, but she hardly talks about herself other than to mention how pretty she is or how badly she has been treated by others. Even if the others genuinely seem to have her best interests at heart.
Then everything about the ending really frustrated me. It felt like it all lead to nothing, no real repercussions, no real drama, and no real lessons learned. That may be part of the point but I feel the way it was executed was a bit lazy. Why does the narrator get to leave this story mostly unscathed just with a year of her life lost to downers. I’d definitely say she’s worse off after her year of R&R since she turned into the exact kind of artist she hated but that seems to be the only negative from it all. She still gets to be a vain narcissist that is the main subject of a mediocre art show. She thinks she’s “healed” when in reality she’s just shoved it all down so low she can’t care anymore. That frustrates me in a way I can’t describe. I don’t want the narrator to suffer at all but I wanted her to really learn a lesson. I’m not sure if part 8 is meant to be that lesson but it’s not what I had in mind.
Maybe if I come back to this at some point I’ll have a different perspective but as it is now I can’t really recommend this book wholeheartedly.
I really was caught by this book and I can say I really enjoyed reading it as much as you can “enjoy” this kind of subject matter. I’d really only recommend this if you’ve come out on the other side of a deep depression not if you’re currently in one.
Sorry if I come off as a pretentious douche, I just have a lot of thoughts.
Thanks for reading if you took the time!
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Running rushing from the voices. Running running running running.
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2,000 year old Olive tree in Greece
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fujimoto if you make Denji transgender i will lay down my fucking life and become a Sengoku era retainer for you. is your editor bothering you king *unsheathes my blade*
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more stardew valley, leah in love 🧡
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nothing bad ever happens to them !!!
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(mid coitus) "this is obvious ai generated slop"
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surprise! it's a sudoku puzzle
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will bird food show up in a drug test time sensitive
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