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sisigull · 3 months
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Have you perhaps read Lord of the Flies and wondered if it would have gone differently were the characters females?
Well I have, and I think I found the answer reading I Who Have Never Known Men byJacqueline Harpman.
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akosuaexe · 1 month
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11.04.24
Just finished reading Lord of the Flies and when I tell you that book had me shooked I'm not lying, although the novel was pretty dark despite it's pretty welcoming front cover. Nevertheless not only was the book beautifully written but it was also an amazing read about the characters and their development as we further progressed through the story.
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thechaoticreader · 2 months
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Popular Books I Read and HATED
*Disclaimer: If you like any of these books, slay! I'm happy for you! These are just my own consumer choices, and imo negative book reviews are just as helpful as positive ones!*
This list is not long because I don't actively dislike many books that I read, and I have a very good sense of what I will and will not like, but there are some I had to read/were misled into reading so here we go:
1. Tender Is The Flesh
by Agustina Bazterrica
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My rant review is above if you want more details but recently I've seen a few videos that articulate my feelings in a way that I couldn't before so im going to add a few reasons here that were not included in the original post:
It gave very Qanon and general antisemitic vibes: i.e blatant conspiracy made up by the "wealthy liberal elites" to encourage cannibalism for their own enjoyment (I know she's Argentinian however that doesn't mean im not allowed to get the ick from it)
Purposefully inaccurate depictions of meat industry and disrespect for farmers (context: im a vegetarian from farm country with a roommate who works in the cattle industry - Angus beef if you're curious - so im very familiar with the process and cannot say in good conscious that it is all bad -> just support local farmers <3)
world building makes little sense
COWS DO NOT EQUATE TO HUMANS NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO !!!!!!!!
the "disease" doesn't make sense (even if its made up who would believe it)
No themes were treated with the depth nor nuance they require (capitalism, feminism, veganism etc.)
I think thats all I haven't covered but this is the only book I have ever read where my hatred of it continues to grow with each day. I went out of my way and deleted it from my reader and get annoyed every time I see it. And for the record (because yes i'm salty) I didn't hate it because it was too disturbing, in fact I've read and loved worse and ive been an avid horror reader since I was (admittedly too) young. I hate it because there wasn't a well done story underneath the gore. I'll say it loudly for the people in the back GORY HORROR BOOKS STILL DESERVE A GOOD/INTERESTING STORY, especially if you want to try to put complex themes in it. If you cannot write a deep story but you're good at and enjoy gore, write yourself a lil 100 page splatter punk and we can all have a good time <3
Unlike with Tender Is The Flesh I don't have a ton of thought out critical reasons for the rest of these soooooo I'm going to give my highly subjective reasons -> I totally understand why some like them <3
2. The Handmaids Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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hated the writing style
It didn't keep my attention
disliked the ending so much I actually threw it across the room <3
3. The Hobbit
by J.R.R Tolkien
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hated the writing style
male centered fantasy is not my vibe
my ADHD cannot handle long incredibly descriptive sections in books -> I physically fell asleep multiple times while reading this book
honestly even with the movie I fall asleep every time
0/10 book I want to read
10/10 bedtime story
4. Lord of The Flies
by William Golding
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hated the writing style
hated most of the characters (and not in a slay anti-hero way)
was forced to read it in high school and it single handedly sent me into a 4 year reading slump... I missed so many good books because of this and will forever hold a grudge
5. Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare
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I'm too jaded and gay to enjoy this -> every single character is so painfully stupid
tbh im just bitter that his (imo) better plays get less love than this one, its way over hyped
but I will give it points for boring me so much that I wrote my first fanfic (Romeo x Mercutio if you're curious ... no its not posted anywhere and it never will be <3)
sidenote -> Shakespeare plays I love incl:
Hamlet (duh im a depressed emo gay on Tumblr)
Macbeth (also duh, witches and female manipulator... need I say more)
Othello (a slow burn for the true crime girlies)
Measure for Measure (absolutely underrated, please please please look into this play -> I saw a production of it and it was incredible)
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cheshirelibrary · 1 year
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jackmerrideeznuts · 10 months
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no way guys ben shapiro watched lord fly 90 😨
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now-that-i-saw-you · 5 months
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Short reviews of everything I read this year:
Trials of Apollo ☆☆☆☆
Fantastic!!! Revived my PJO obsession. I enjoyed Apollo's narration. The 3rd-4th book were a little tedious though.
The Picture of Dorian Gray ☆☆☆☆☆
Flawless. So, so gay, weird and dramatic. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Seasparrow ☆☆☆
I was disappointed. I didn't like the first POV, it made the book feel juvenile. It was too long and nothing happened. An unnecessary addition to the Graceling Realm universe because all the themes in this book were already presented in Bitterblue and Winterkeep. I might have liked this a lot more if it was not part of the Graceling Realm series.
All For The Game ☆☆☆☆☆
I'M OBSESSED. Nothing else to say.
One Last Stop ☆☆☆☆
It was cute and fun. I like it when you can feel that a book/show was planned. Every detail is carefully crafted to fit the narrative. I like how the author uses historical events to enrich the plot. Middle part of the book was a little flat.
The Cruel Prince ☆☆☆
It's...cute. I liked Jude a lot, didn't care for Cardan. Good enough to make me read the entire thing, bad enough that I might never read another book by that author.
Conversations With Friends ☆☆☆☆☆
Do you ever come across a book that's exactly what you needed? This was it for me. One of the only books I got from BookTok and actually loved. It was like being hugged and punched in the gut at the same time.
This Is How You Lose The Time War ☆☆☆☆☆
This book is poetry. It's a fairytale. It's the saddest, most romantic story I've ever read. It's so weird and confusing, I understood everything. It's a tragedy. It's so full of hope. It's perfect.
The Hellheim Propechy ☆☆☆ 1/2☆
It's a lovely series and I can't wait for the 3rd book. It has one of the healthiest relationship I've ever seen in books (and it's wlw!!!!). The villians are a little flat imo.
She Who Became The Sun ☆☆☆☆☆
I don't understand how people find the courage to write anymore books after Shelley Parker-Chan dropped this marvel. I want to eat this book.
The Catcher In The Rye (reread) ☆☆☆☆☆
I love this book idc. I love the metaphors, I love Holden, I love the way the plot develops.
Jane, Unlimited ☆☆☆☆☆
SO GOOD!! Such a unique and engaging book it had me pulling out a notebook and a pen and try to decipher all the clues like a goddamn detective.
Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious ☆☆☆
It's was nice! Idk what else to say.
Pride & Prejudice ☆☆☆
Reading this felt like sitting at a 19th century tea party and gossiping.
More Than This ☆☆☆☆☆
I've wanted to reas this for a while and it exceeded my expectation. This book is so captivating, unique, heartbreaking and hopeful.
The Trial ☆☆☆
This book was a fever dream.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here ☆☆☆☆
I think Patrick Ness is my favorite author. He did a great job with the premise of the book cause it's a lovely coming of age story and the fantastic elements are woven so well into the story.
Evvie Drake Starts Over ☆☆☆
It's cute and I love the fact that the main conflict is between the FMC and her Male Best Friend and the way this book talks about DV but it also felt a little dull sometimes.
The Lottery ☆☆☆☆
This was a mindfuck.
The Rocking Horse Winner ☆☆☆
....what?
The Scorpio Races ☆☆☆☆
HOW DOES MAGGIE STIEFVATER KEEP COMING UP WITH THOSE WEIRD FUCKING PLOTS??
A Man Called Ove ☆☆☆☆
Really sweet. This book healed something in me.
The Broken Earth (1+2) ☆☆
Yeah....I was not in the right headspace when I read this. I just didn't understand anything. I wanna give this another chance next year if I can.
Lord of The Flies ☆☆☆☆
I want to reread it cause I definitely didn't fully appreciate it but I think it's a great allegory and it's so dark. I get the hype.
The Sun and The Star ☆☆☆☆
I don't think you understand how long I've waited for this book, how long I've waited for Solangelo content. This was so cute. So lovely. I love Nico, I love Will. I wish there was a 3rd character in this (like, idk, Reyna?)
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ronispadez · 1 month
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Just watched the 1963 movie. Unfortunately those kids cannot act, but you can't really blame them. The sound design was a little goofy and odd but I give it a pass cuz it's a 60s movie, even tho there were better movies from the 60s... I also feel like they didn't portray the symbolism enough or go hard enough on the visuals, and the cinnamon-tography wasn't amazing, which sucks. :( oh well. It was also incredibly slow but maybe that's my gen z brain talking. Overall I give it a 5/10, I would not have my English class watch it, but I would watch it in a group of friends to laugh and giggle at it, maybe.
I'll be watching the 90s version later!
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bookishlyvintage · 9 months
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Lord of the Fly Fest by Goldie Moldavsky
☆☆☆☆ | full review
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supitsgdo · 7 months
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Book review: Lord of The Flies by William Golding
Rating: 2⭐
This book is so fucked up. I bought it years ago and decided to read it now. I totally forgot what it was all about. So, when I started this, I was thinking 'ah nice, it's an adventure book, about boys lost on an island'.
But then it got creepy and ugly. This book was written in 1954, (and I can't stop noticing that the author, purposefully didn't include any girls) and it's about a group of boys lost in an island and they decide that they need to rule themselves. Somebody needs to be the leader and there are tasks that need to be done, in order to survive.
Well, there were a lot of disagreements and the story went to shit. And that was the message. It's a metaphor about what always seems to happen in the real world. When men try to rule, there is always someone who wants to overrule the other and so it goes.
Even though I understand the message, the plot although interesting turned out to be completely flat, and there was no character development... So I didn't quite enjoy reading it. And I'm struggling with how to rate this book.
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shitminds · 2 years
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It’s Really Not That Deep: The Overanalysis of Literature in Systematic Education
Or: Why Lord of the Flies is Not About Intrinsic Evil
I’ve recently reread Lord of the Flies after first reading it at school a few years back.
The copy of the book I read has a little introduction about Sir William Golding and his philosophy that inspired Lord of the Flies. It went on and on about Biblical ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’, the regression of human civilisation, intrinsic evil and all the pessimistic bs you covered in ninth grade English Lit. 
But despite its repetitiveness and uselessness, I gained a bit of information from the intro about Golding's biography that I was not aware of: he was a commander in the English Navy during World War Two. 
With that in mind as I read the novel, I started piecing together a little idea: Lord of the Flies is not about how humans are undoubtedly shitty, but rather it’s a reflection of how war and conflict breed unfettered hopelessness. 
I’m not going to go into what I think the themes and allegory in Lord of the Flies deliver- that’s a whole other post -but rereading the novel absent of any encouraged ideology really does completely change the way you think about the literature you read in school: what if I wasn’t told at 14 that humans must be under strict societal rules, otherwise chaos would fester as shown in this Great Classic, but instead learnt the effect and manifestation of war on literature and philosophy? But no, every little bit of lotf told us that without a-to-z civility handbooks we will all dig ourselves into deep anarchy and barbaric tribes
Reading a book written seventy years ago and being told to look for a message that has already been delivered to you pre-read is pointless if what is being taught is interpretation. 
So, if not the free interpretation of literature, what did we learn from reading all those mandatory pages? I think nothing is a close answer. 
Usually, the subtext you were meant to look for is just a reinforced idea of what the literature should mean- that is, there are incorrect and conversely correct interpretations. In addition, this singular interpretation of the literature is overanalysed to the point of meaninglessness. This analysis happens in the name of in-depth reading and recognition of literary devices, metaphors and style, but really it is a surface reading that lacks creativity and encourages all but model-answer-brain-rot.
I don’t think that the Humans Are Bad reading of Lord of the Flies is necessarily incorrect- there shouldn’t be right-and-wrong in literary understating, especially in your ninth-grade reading of X classic- but it shouldn’t be pushed as the only way to read the novel. And this, of course, applies to all other works of literature. As long as you can justify your interpretation of unstated philosophy, themes, metaphor and all else, your interpretation shouldn’t be dismissed. 
TL;DR: Secondary school English sticks to a one-dimensional understanding of timeless literature and then milks the shit out of it until you are literally scraping for whatever symbolic bullshit that will get you an A. It is not how we should introduce people to meaningful stories.
PS. This is me shit posting. I am bored and it is summer. This is obviously not an academic analysis and I am also very bad at writing so yk, I encourage social niceties
PSS. I’ve read this back just now, and I realise I make very little sense, but anyway this exists and it shall stay
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maritime-mouse · 1 year
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My review of Lord of The Flies (WITH SPOILERS)
I liked that book. It kind of reminded me of the Stanford Prison Experiment with how if people are given the opportunity to be cruel to eachother without consequence, they will take it. Only that was a real event and this is a fictional story. Sorry I brought that up I just think about it a lot.
My favorite character was Simon. I think if I was stuck on an island, I would end up the most like him.
The book had a lot of really good moments like when the ship goes past the island and Ralph loses it, and of COURSE the stuff with the pig head was sick and gross but really entertaining. I love how slowly things go downhill and by the end it’s a complete poo storm.
The ending was PERFECT. Instead of their rescue being a moment of victory, all of the boys have to face the reality of what went down on the island and they just cry. It’s upsetting and not satisfying at all, and that’s why I think it works so well.
There’s a lot of things I love I could keep going… but I’m going to cut it off here!
What I didn’t like about the book:
I don’t like it when books describe things in really long, wordy paragraphs—this has a lot of that. I had trouble visualizing what the island looks like and I didn’t really get what was happening at certain parts. That’s more of a me problem and not a Lord of The Flies problem, but it took me 2 months to read the book because I kept losing interest at those parts. So it did impact what I thought of the book.
Solid 9/10 in my eyes!
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hellaephemeral · 1 year
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i just remembered i read lord of flies. i know no one is here for my book reviews but my opinion is obviously super important so here is my quick review:
i hated it and i wanted to kill all of them at least once. they should have just all walked into the sea and drowned. little british boys are evil and that’s that. all my annotations are about how much i hate jack and how he is the cause of all worldly problems.
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ash-and-books · 2 years
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Rating: 1/5
Book Blurb: One of Us Is Lying meets Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Fest in this wickedly addictive and funny YA thriller. Rafi Francisco needs something really special to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi lands herself a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner. But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers and (very minor) celebrities, they quickly discover that the dream trip is more of a nightmare. And it’s not just confronting beauty gurus-gone-wild and spotty WiFi. Soon, Rafi goes from fighting for an interview to fighting for her life. And, as she gets closer to River, she discovers that he might be hiding even darker secrets than she suspected . . 
Review:
Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Festival in this story about a girl who goes to an exclusive music festival on an island only to be stranded with influencers and no festival actually taking place... and madness descends upon them. Rafi Francisco runs a podcast that discusses music mysteries and wants to get her podcast to be more popular... so she takes on the case of famous pop boy singer River’s mystery of the disappearance and death of his girlfriend... and the only way to do so is to go to this festival. What Rafi wasn’t expecting was that the festival was completely fake and now she is stranded on an island full of influencers and a few minor celebrities... and River himself. Rafi needs the interview with River and is willing to do anything to get it... even lie... and her actions have bigger consequences. She believes that River is a killer but the more she gets to know him the more wrong she feels. It also doesn’t help that more people are starting to disappear... and there might be a different killer on the loose. Rafi is one of those “not like other girls” but “I want to make it famous” kind of gals, she’s manipulative, think’s she’s better, and honestly obsessive. She’s not a likable protagonist and while the story had potential it felt meh overall, it was funny to see the correlation between Fly Fest and Fyre Fest and Hella Badid and Bella Hadid. Overall, it just wasn’t for me but if you do like the original story maybe give it a try, it definitely is a unique take on the original story with modern adaptations.
*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*
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mogwai-movie-house · 2 years
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Lord of The Flies (1963)
This is a very patchy affair, mostly because of the extremely amateurish acting of the cast of children: three of the characters, Ralph, Jack and Simon, are decently portrayed and have good moments, but the rest of the 30+ boys are stilted and off, with long pauses between every sentence, as if they are all struggling terribly to recall their lines. The boy playing Piggy is by far the worst of all: his inexplicable casting in such a pivotal role is such a catastrophic misfire that the film had no hope of being salvaged even if all the other pieces - such as the lifeless pacing - had turned out right.
For all that, the film has some truly unforgettable, deeply haunting moments, especially towards the end, and is extremely brave in how unflinchingly it remains true to the spirit of such a bleak book, making it seem very out of step with almost any other British film from the same era. It seems likely to have had a large influence on Coppola's Apocalypse Now, some 15 or so years later, and also Oliver Stone's Platoon.
So it is an unusual experience, being at once a remarkable, timeless achievement AND an awkward, stumbling mess, and as such is very difficult to rate.
★★★★★★✰✰✰✰
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newbookcats · 4 months
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Book Review: The Grace Year by Kim Liggett | Can Logic Be Overtaken by Lies and Emotion? Ft. A Story of Love, Punishment, and Magic
Book review can also be found at https://newbookcatsreads.blogspot.com/2024/01/book-review-grace-year-by-kim-liggett.html
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The open water, the breeze, the unobstructed sun glaring down on us - it feels like freedom, but we know it's a lie. This is how they break us. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift.
A perfect mash-up of The Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games during the Salem Witch Trials, Liggett's The Grace Year features a patriarchal society that fears the power of women, claiming a woman's luring gaze is downright witchcraft. 
[Women are] told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. They believe our very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That's why we're banished for our sixteenth year, to release our magic into the wild before we're allowed to return to civilization. 
Tierney, our female protagonist, is sixteen-years-old and is expected to marry and start a family, as is many of the other girls in her town. However, before she begins her role as a dutiful spouse and mother, she must embark on her Grace Year, during which all sixteen-year-old girls in the town will reside collectively in the wilderness until their "magic" dispels. Entirely alone and free to make their own decisions, these girls' choices will either strengthen or weaken their relationships, thus affecting their safety. Yet, when loner Tierney is unexpectedly courted by her best friend Michael, she is plunged into the female-female rivalries she spent years avoiding. Will Tierney be able to survive the year, or will her "magic" and the competition drive her to madness?
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In the past year, the word "feminism" has been frequently raised on social media - to the point that I question whether I know what actual feminism is or if TikTok's toxic version has come to dominate my world. My initial thought of Liggett's feminist story was, "Like The Handmaid's Tale?" Although the story is placed in a dystopian era, the culture is more traditional and the practices can be compared to those done during the Salem Witch Trials, especially as the opinions of females are challenged with deathly punishments such as hangings. However, Liggett's take on a heavy subject and her storytelling easily made this an exciting and gripping novel. 
Liggett's prose is executed wonderfully and places you exactly in Tierney's shoes. Although learning about the history of the town and its events from varying perspectives would have been interesting, the intimacy of following young Tierney makes the story so unputdownable. As Tierney readies to participate in the forty-seventh Grace Year, the reader is told that Tierney's mother previously underwent the ceremony as well and possibly her grandmother. Thus, since Tierney's knowledge of the the Grace Year is limited to what she has been told, there is so much mystery involved in the world itself. This quality not only lends to the reader's role as a detective aiming to understand the reasons behind the characters' actions but also unravels the town's repulsive and toxic nature. For example, women are plotted against each other from a very young age. In the town, men prey on and brainwash them; outside of town and during their Grace Year, this toxicity is fueled by their insecurities. Further, beyond the town's outskirts, ruthless poachers seek to kill these girls during their Grace Years and present their remains as trophies to be sold to the town's men and woman seeking to preserve their youth. However, as noted by the quotation marks surrounding the women's "magic," it's all false - a lie maintained to control these young girls as they develop into women.
There is no doubt that Liggett aims to reflect our society, particularly its cliques. The mean girls lead the young women during their Grace Year and inevitably punish anyone who disagrees with them. Tierney, with her set of survival skills, sets to improve the lives of the girls during their Grace Year. Rather than drink from an algae-infested well and rely solely on the rations they packed before their trip, she attempts to produce several solutions to help the overall experience of the Grace Year. Rather than the expected praise I would give Tierney for her creativity and resourcefulness, she is mocked and banished from the main pack. It's truly remarkable how Liggett skillfully portrays the influence of brainwashing over several decades and how much I literally want to hug each of these ladies.
However, Tierney's banishment leads to an unlikely romance with a poacher Ryker. Although I was at first flabbergasted with Tierney falling in love, Ryker fit the story extremely well. Tierney, at the beginning, is wanting her life to be entirely up to her. Since women are basically treated like property in her world, she despises courting, the Grace Year ritual, and anything to do with marriage. Tierney's initial wish is to not be chosen for marriage at the choosing ceremony and work in the fields where she can remain free. Although her plans are turned upside down after being courted by Michael, I enjoyed  Tierney's love for Ryker was her choice, and I love that Liggett included this romance in this story, especially since it is not un-feminist to fall in love or do tasks that are stereotypically feminine. I love the maturity and bravery exhibited by Tierney during her time with and after Ryker, and these scenes definitely encompassed the strength and intelligence of Tierney wonderfully.
Moreover, the symbolism with the flowers! Quite a unique concept that I have not seen yet in the books I have read, and I enjoyed learning each flower's meaning!
Lastly, the ending! Although I am somewhat confused by the ending, it was peaceful. There are spoilers ahead in this paragraph; therefore, I warn any socially awkward turtles to proceed with caution and read this masterpiece so we may discuss at our next meeting. Thank you!
So, the ending! Um...Liggett ended the story vaguely. Passing by Tierney's dismay of a betrothed, her subsequent send off into the scary wilderness, and her life's desire to give women the freedom to pursue their own passions, she gives birth to her daughter and experiences this:
As I close my eyes and let out my next endless breath, I find myself walking in the woods, weightless, free.
And, then Tierney is flashed to a scene of a very much alive Ryker walking around although the reader most definitely witnessed him die. So, it begs the question: is Tierney in too peaceful of a moment in which she dies during childbirth? With Tierney's mom freeing her hair and Ryker's dreamlike appearance, it's assumed that Tierney dies. Nonetheless, Book #2 will have to explain something about this ending scene and the legacy of Tierney's daughter. 
What did you think of Liggett's The Grace Year? Was it the feminist novel of the year, or do you have a differing opinion? What one object, if you were set to be stranded in the woods with nothing else, would you bring? What books will you be reading in 2024? Converse with me in the comments below or via any social media!
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