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The German soldier raping Ida is narrated almost dispassionately, relying on facts and surroundings, more than morals. The narrator stays neutral and detached, making the clinical telling of Ida's rape more palpable and brutal. I had an intense emotional reaction while reading it.
With this novel, Elsa Morante is peeling back layers of how war decimates lives at all levels and in all ways.

You get the sense of reading a systematic entry of the lives of a bourgeois family in Italy during the war. I'm not yet sure who the protagonist is.
The writing resembles Dickens in a way, but without the wry humour.

I am getting tired of reading books where women are just accessories to insipid men. Maybe I should try reading books by only women writers for a year.
I'm aware that this won't guarantee I will escape the atrocity of poor depiction of women in fiction, but I hope this might reduce the chances of encountering them.

Whenever I mark a book as 'currently reading' here, I jinx it. It takes ages to finish such a book. I should stick to updating and reviewing after I finish the book.

goodness I just saw a book review I'd given in 2015. I was unhinged.

Is there any way on this app to find people to interact with? about books, of course, or buddy read or rant about books.

Ok Gogol is FUN

Woefully inadequate to admire the symbolism of 'The Nose', yet substantially situated to bask in its satire.

In my limited reading experience, I love it when I come across an author who re-defines the art of storytelling and broadens the conventions of a protagonist.

I have to investigate why reading about Takiko and Kambayashi getting together was disturbing as hell.

I just cannot seem to get a read on Takiko. Her motives and feelings remain obscure.

Oh he just casually dropped the 'If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more', as though that didn't just leave my soul in rapture.

Emma is so hilarious with her 'little Henry shouldn't be slighted, I worry for his future, little Henry is in danger of being usurped'.
Sure, my lady, all your worries are for Henry. Sure.

If nothing else, at least Emma is damn entertaining.

Emma is such a classist and gossip monger. Once again Austen proves to be a brilliant writer. Emma's sentiments are written satirically, with a natural censure and an assurance to the reader that almost says 'Don't you worry, Emma will learn her lesson.'

I am in love with George Knightley

Mr. Knightley is so funny and witty. I love his arguments with Emma.
I can't stop laughing.
Only a woman's imagination could conceive a man like him.

Encountering Saramago everywhere I go these days. Is this the sign to read him?

Mr. Elton is so clearly in love with Emma and she's busy pawning him off to Harriet. This is hilarious.
I still don't know who the hero is. It's somehow managed to stay a mystery for me. My heart's set on George Knightley. Don't tell me it's Frank Churchill.

Tell me I will end up liking Emma at some point in the story please.

Just realized that Clueless is based on Enma. Do I already know the story? I'm confused.

Oh okay. I see you Henry James, trying to get me to do mental gymnastics to decode every sentence.
The real question is whether my patience will endure this challenge.

The speed of this novel can only be called breakneck.