sarahxify's Reviews (703)

Hospital

4.0

challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Me: This has nothing to do with lithium, my mood was always stable. I was angry, it seemed wrong to force medication on me, and that was mistaken for mood instability. I'm not angry anymore because I have explained to myself that if I refuse the prescribed drugs, I'll be given others instead. Which is why I've decided that I'll continue to take lithium, even though it's poison. Or else I'll be killed even more quickly with other kinds of poison.
Dr Nevin: I can see you're still lacking in insight. You still don't realise there is something wrong with you.
Me: There's nothing particularly wrong with me. And even if there is, medication is not the right way to treat it.
Dr Nevin: What is the right way in your view?
Me: With language. Through conversations.
Dr Nevin: That's possible too. Counselling can be arranged simultaneously with medication.

Graft

Maggie MacKellar

3.0

reflective medium-paced

The Maiden

Kate Foster

3.0

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White

2.0

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Quite an odd story when you get down to it

For this kind of book to grab me it needs to have really beautiful, dreamy writing, and it doesn't have that in my opinion. I am about halfway through and finding I'm completely losing track of what's going on

Our Wives Under The Sea

Julia Armfield

5.0

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Really loved this, a treat to round off a fairly crappy reading year. This tells the story of two women, Miri and Leah. Leah has just come back from a submarine mission that went deeply wrong, with Leah staying away for 6 months for a three week mission and she's changed since she came back. It's very unclear to Miri what exactly happened when Leah was under the sea, and Leah has become very dreamlike and unresponsive.

The mood of this book is unsettling and quiet, very well done. For fan's of The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh or Hydra by Adriane Howell