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Ett år av vila och avkoppling by Alva Dahl, Ottessa Moshfegh
129 reviews
chidera's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, and Death of parent
Minor: Abortion
amelianotthepilot's review against another edition
1.5
I guess you could say its a feminist book representing women in the worst way, women can be horrible too, women contain multitudes. I'm also pretty positive it doesn't pass the reverse Bechdel test (men are rarely mentioned and only in reference to sex). Which I guess is interesting... idk overall I thought it was terribly boring and depressing.
The main character is in her 20s, both her parents have passed away which she says she has come to terms with but clearly still deeply affects her. She has decided she wants to sleep her life away. She goes to a bad therapist complaining of sleep problems so she can get prescribed increasingly wild drugs. She then takes a cocktail of drugs in efforts to fully sleep through the rest of life to varying success. Her therapist is an extremely hippie unhinged bad therapist, her best friend is extremely vain and fake, her deceased mother was an alcoholic and uncaring. Overall every single character was unbearable and annoying and I don't feel like I particularly learned or gained anything from reading it.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
gin_and_panic's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Drug abuse and Sexual content
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Racism, and Classism
sorcha's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
erikalv97's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Violence and Abortion
beatrizdizon_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
There’s so much to say about MYORAR. The social commentary it touches but it’s not in your face, so it doesn’t sound pretentious. The way our narrator adhered to the very things she criticized. How telling her toxic relationships are, especially with men, about her experiences.
So, I took my time considering if I liked that we readers can predict what will happen to Reva, and I settled on the notion that I do. Maybe it became predictable the moment she had that change, but what matters more is how the narrator reacted in the last chapter which arguably is not predictable. Reva is a star though. Something about her demise juxtaposed with MC’s plan b is poetic in a way.
Moshfegh makes me want to go all “you just don’t get it” type of insufferable. Now my friends and I can be miserable and insufferable together. As if we’re not already doing that.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Alcohol
Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Racism, Self harm, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism
chrysanthxmum's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Cancer and Abortion
lady_oracle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
“Sodium”: salt, white, clouds, gauze, silt, sand, sky, lark, string, kitten, claws, wound, iron, omega.
“Lauryl”: Shakespeare, Ophelia, Millais, pain, stained glass, rectory, butt plug, feelings, pigpen, snake eyes, hot poker.
“Sulfate”: Satan, acid, Lyme, dunes, dwellings, hunchbacks, hybrids, samurais, suffragettes, mazes.
the memories of her parents were so spectacularly done. the passage in particular about the week leading up to the day of her father passing made me a bit queasy, because that was nearly exactly the experience i had with my own. prose was poetic and tactile. also love-hated the doctor.
some questionable moments, but nothing i think too shocking for anyone who's familiar with this author. so glad this is what i've kicked off 2024 with.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Animal death, Infidelity, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail
eerikaanni's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The main character is terrible. Her best friend is pathetic. Their dynamic is annoying at its best and completely destructive at its worst. There's little to no plot, and there's a 5-line long imagery collage of random things, names, places, activities, or thoughts like every other paragraph. That gets a bit exhausting to read at times.
But I think that's the point: materialism, the ownership and manifestation of things and more things is at the focal point of American capitalism. It is its driving force; the desire of more, until the Earth starts regurgitating everything we have consumed back up again.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Dysphoria
annarchy_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship