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adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Meh. Wouldn't have finished it if I had read it physically.

Geduld bringt Rosen: Erzählungen

Veza Canetti

DID NOT FINISH: 31%

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reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

Ich habe das Gefühl, den Roman nicht ganz durchstiegen zu haben, und habe erst im Nachinein über Interviews mit der Autorin die Bedeutung verstanden. Ich denke ich hätte es hilfreich gefunden, schon mit Infos zur Einordnung der non-realen Elemente zu starten, um das Buch tiefer zu lesen. Was ich gerne vorher gewusst hätte:

Louise füllt die Lücken in ihrer Verbindung zur Außenwelt mit den Charakteren des Soldaten, des Hundes und der Botanikerin. Hierbei geht es weniger um eine Exploration von Halluzinationen/mentaler Gesundheit, oder klassischem magical Realism, sondern um die metaphorische Bedeutung der Charaktere, die Louises Emotionen und komplizierten Weg in die Taubheit darstellen.


Durch und durch poetisch, aber auch konfrontativ mit Situationen aus dem Leben von Louise, ihre Familie, KollegInnen und der beste Freundin. Ich bin froh, das Buch entdeckt zu haben!
hopeful lighthearted relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
emotional inspiring mysterious slow-paced

This book is.... Poetic. Breathtaking. It invites you to look at nature and enjoy every little bit but also calls you out for romanticising it. It's unapologetic, heartfelt and magical, brutally real and funny at the same time. Each chapter is like a riddle to find out what perspective it is written out of, not just from the humans living in this region, but everyone and everything around them. The chapters are incredibly diverse but also coherent.
I started again to take notes, to give it the time it needs. The long list of names and constant perspective changes makes it hard to read casually, so readers should pick it up when they have enough space for the book to take root. 
mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: Complicated

It's weird. It's uncomfortable. It's all rage and art and... Magic.

Kind of reminds me of The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (but also is so different) and of what I hoped When Women were Dragons would be. 
reflective

Section 3, mainly about motherhood, was just not my topic