book rec drop!! currently reading ‘speak’, to be finished tomorrow! I’ve been told the ending leaves much to be desired but i’m not so sure just based off what I’ve read (like 150ish of 198 pages) tbd tbh
I just completed My year of rest and relaxation and I think Reva’s story is heartbreaking. She is girlhood personified. She spent the most vital years of her adulthood trying to be accepted, trying to fit in, regarding herself in a deprecating way, and it was all for nothing. Her character exhibits that life is too short to be spent yearning to become the image of what society deems beautiful.
Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.