This was the first book I read based on Roxane Gay discussing it and I loved it. Great pic if you like the “unlikable woman.” Plus I‘m still obsessed with the cover.
LeeRHarry Looks great - stacked! 😊 5y
Green Girl: A Novel | 
This was the first book I read based on Roxane Gay discussing it and I loved it. Great pic if you like the “unlikable woman.” Plus I‘m still obsessed with the cover.
pickThis is another amazing book I got off of Roxane Gay‘s Goodreads. I started and finished it with my morning coffee 💜
pickIn Green Girl, the protagonist, Ruth, uses her beauty as both a shield and as a ticket into a more privileged world. The narrative is so colored by Ruth‘s perspective that the book‘s setting felt surreal to me.
For full review:
http://www.amyyuki.com/books/2018/07/26/green-girl-by-kate-zambreno/
Day 1 #FierceFeb #ModernGirl "Hunger makes me a modern girl" Ruth, in this book, is almost embalmed in apathy and ennui, sleepwalking through life. She's definitely hungry to be anyone other than herself.
I gave this four stars on Goodreads. But flipping through it now I'm highly irritated. ? Am I getting older and more curmudgeonly about the blank listlessness and solipsism of youth... ?
@Cinfhen
so-soBeing a young woman out in the world and the accompanying ennui, apathy, going through the daily motions of life, feelings of emptiness...I've seen comparisons to The Bell Jar -- and I think that's fair as far as atmosphere goes -- but Green Girl didn't have the realizations or profundity you get with Plath. This was a good enough read, but when I think about the way it handled its themes, it doesn't stand out too much.
so-soMost of the time, I felt like slapping the protagonist (I refuse to call her heroine) out of her teenage/ adolescence angst. But then I remembered being that age and doing stupid stuff myself and scolded myself about being so judgmental.
Bottom line, I liked it well enough, but I am not wowed. I think the writing style was very clipped and unfocused and just not my cup of tea.
What happens to a woman when the eyes are no longer on her? Is that in a way a tiny death? Or a sort of freedom? The locks shorn off. Is one unlocked?
Things have been crazy at work lately, but today I got out at a decent time! WIN!
Things have been crazy at work lately, but today I got out at a decent time! WIN!
"Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?" ?
One of the books that was referred to in Bad Feminist.
