It really should come as no surprise that "In Defence of the Act", by Effie Black is my Book of the Week, although "How to Cook and Eat the Rich" by Sunyi Dean came as a close second: https://tardisgrades.blogspot.com/2024/04/book-of-week-april-1-to-7.html?m=1
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I found this to be fairly powerful in topic and writing. Jess was a relatable and realistic main character. The story is multi-layered and heartfelt. This is one of the better Women's Prize Fiction long list books this year.
pickWithout a doubt one of the best books I've ever read. The subject matter (suic*de) is an incredibly difficult topic to address in any shape or form, but Effie Black manages to talk about it beautifully, with tact, facts, kindness and even humour. The story is captivating and the writing is so light and pleasant that you end up easily reading through a lot more pages in one sitting than you were expecting.
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"But if it's all bullshit anyway, I'm choosing the bullshit that will get me through the day."
This has been my motto for a while now. I used to try to form the most accurate, the most correct, the most informed opinions as possible on everything, but some things are just not that simple or even important. Now I just look for what makes me happy and gets me through the day. Because, in the end, most of it is just all bullshit anyway.
"I forgot to bring my book today, so instead I pick up one of the magazines the carer tends to leave lying around. I rarely read women's magazines anymore, and I'm surprised anew by the number of ways it is possible for a woman's body to be wrong."
Not really the very first line, but
“ 'Feel free to shout out.' Everyone feels free. No one shouts out.“
is possibly one of my favourite passages.
This first page was the page that made me want to read this book and I'm so glad I did so, because I haven't been able to put it down! So, a bit more than a first line but I'm hoping it'll get others to read it too.
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"I hurled it with such incensed vigour that it bounced back and onto the lap of the person next to me, to whom I apologized. Which I probably wouldn't have had to do had they read the book, because they would've surely understood the point I must have reached, and, remembering it, they would quite rightly have thrown the book on the floor in renewed rage themselves."
We've all read a book like that and I just love how she describes this ?
I have always thought those pages at the end of books that are all "a note about the type" we're a bit weird I have never much noticed the font in a book, but I absolutely hate what was chosen here? I really hope it doesn't cloud my judgement of the book.
bailedI should accept that I really don‘t care for memoirs.
