en-US Sat, 07 Jun 2025 04:39:06 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9518461681 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 04:39:06 -0700 /review/show/7634560700 writtenbywds is currently reading The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
]]> Review5070369405 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:26:31 -0700 /review/show/5070369405 writtenbywds gave 3 stars to My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) by Elena Ferrante
bookshelves: about-women, encompassing-all-life, hyped-and-read, series-to-continue, some-sort-of-critique
3.5/5

I WILL BE REAL HONEST WITH THIS ONE. i have no idea what to rate this. unfortunately, i hated this book and found it extremely boring, repetitive, pointless, without a semblance of a plot� all the way up until page 242. i didn’t care. i really didn’t care. i didn’t care about the girls, their school grades, the people around them. i didn’t care about their childhood, their teachers. but then, around page 242, when they became teenagers, and when shit hit the fan� OH GOD. yes. i’m in. the drama is juicy and i want more. i NEED to know more. maybe i’m not particularly fond of any of the characters, but now the story got me HOOKED. i must say, by the end of the book, when the protagonist is a little bit older and forms thoughts and opinion that are a little more mature, this book makes you think a little, too.
one thing i REALLY loved though, is the complexity of this female friendship. the hidden (but not really) competitiveness of it. i think this is a huge part of being born a girl and growing up a girl, especially in a certain kind of society, and i find it to be really relatable to pretty much all of us. this was done extremely, extremely well by the author.

so, yeah: i’m confused, i hated the most part of this book, yet I NEED TO READ THE NEXT ONE. I NEED TO KNOW. ]]> ReadStatus9501164840 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:29:35 -0700 /review/show/7622472093 writtenbywds wants to read The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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]]> Review7569362520 Fri, 23 May 2025 11:59:22 -0700 /review/show/7569362520 writtenbywds gave 4 stars to Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover) by Virginia Woolf
bookshelves: absolute-favorites, best-of-2025, classics, encompassing-all-life
phenomenal in every single aspect. the ending hit me so hard so good. i enjoyed this slightly less than “to the lighthouse�, but still, wow, what a book. i truly lived this party, this society, these people and london through these pages. virginia woolf was absolutely crazy for writing so impeccably. ]]> ReadStatus9454630778 Thu, 22 May 2025 04:42:19 -0700 /review/show/7589957171 writtenbywds wants to read The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt by Sylvia Brinton Perera
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