#reva my year of rest and relaxation

[literally-cat-woman]

thinking about how reva from my year of rest and relaxation felt like a mean caricature of me .....

#my year of rest and relaxation #sylvia plath #english literature #girlblogging #femcel #coquette #looksmaxxing #glow up #reading #otessa moshfegh #reva my year of rest and relaxation #myorar #this is a girlblog #gaslight gatekeep girlblog #just girly things #girlhood #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girlblog aesthetic #no but fr its so embarassing

[pomegranateshrimp]

Reva from MYORAR is literally Peach from YOU

#pomegranateshrimp #my year of rest and relaxation #reva my year of rest and relaxation #you netflix #peach salinger #peach isabella Salinger #joe goldberg #peach you

[ellieslaces]

i read my year of rest and relaxation in less than 24 hours. that shit is heavy but so good. narrator is a bitch and has no redeeming qualities. it’s reva’s world, we’re just living in it

#chloe talks #my year of rest and relaxation #reva my year of rest and relaxation #unreliable narrators #unnamed narrator

[theklaapologist-gaitanosversion]

Currently on my fourth reread or my year of rest and relaxation and Reva is such a deep character and no one is talking about it I can’t stand it

#i literally almost cried when she said she will try to lose five pounds and mc didn’t understand if she was joking #literally please let’s appreciate reva #my year of rest and relaxation #ο θεός μίλησε

[achubbydumpling]

it's kinda funny how I always worry about just writing the same stuff over and over, when I literally haven't read anything but feedist fics in months

#I did start reading My Year of Rest and Relaxation but... #I kinda hate the book 🙈 #someone I look up to recommended it to me but it's so terrible #she was *raving* about how ~real~ the book is #but so far it just seems incredibly mean-spirited #poor Reva! #I still have ~70 pages left maybe the ending will turn this story around #rambles

[n-nausea]

My Year Of Rest and Relaxation

Sittin' on the sofa, feelin' super suicidal

Hate to say the word, but, baby, hand on the Bible I do

Feel like it's you, the one who's bringing me down

#I thought the brunette looks like Reva in my head #my year of rest and relaxation #LDR #candy necklace #Lana Del Rey #moodboard

[theculturesclever]

reva was the realest and best part of my year of rest and relaxation

#my year of rest and relaxation #ottessa moshfegh #reva #booklr

[p3arlsandcoff3]

// TW bullimia regarding Reva from ''my year of rest and relaxation "

Reva is bullimic and Jewish. If you say the word 'Reva' with a Hebrew tonation, it sounds like the word 'Re-e-va' , which means 'hungry' in female form.

A fun little Hebrew fact of the day.

#ed jokes #myorar #my year of rest and relaxation #girlblogger book #girl blogger book #reva myorar #hebrew

[mr-froggio]

is it maturing when, you realize that Reva is not actually a bad character.

#my year of rest and relaxation #still at chapter 84 #reva #books

[aboobshka]

i wanted to see what people on here thought about my year of rest and relaxation and all I'm getting is moodboards and 2013 Tumblr core posts. to say I'm annoyed and slightly infuriated is an understatement. Like i just want another opinion💀

#my year of rest and relaxation #i really liked reading it though it was fun #and reva reminded me of this friend i once had and. the whole arc of their relationship really resonated with me #i have so many thoughts about ping xi and. #uk im juts gonna go to google atp

[catebody]

just finished MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION 

this story is TOUCHING, ABSTRACT, SHARP and STUNNING at the same time

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[sea--sick]

feeling so out of it and depressed

#im identifying with the main character in My Year of Rest and Relaxation which is not good #also probably Reva too

[killingvoices]

I'm having mixed feelings, at the beginning of the year, I decided that I won't be part of my own vicious cycles anymore. I deleted all social media from my phone, I joined the gym, and a yoga class, and a pilates class, I've been clean for awhile, I lost weight (in a healthy way) I've read 4 books in January, my relationship has improved, my body is finally starting to look somewhat decent after years of binging, starving, binging, starving, I got more responsibility at work, I've been treating people better, I think I'm more likable now, but I'm still me, I'm doing a juice cleanse under a Dr's supervision, my finances are good, life's good. But this motherfucking book... I... I don't know, I think that I've been so vain and superficial for so long... but at the same time, I think this is the time to consider what I actually want, and what I want is that freedom from society, I don't want to spend my life trying to fit in, and the moment I kinda stopped trying to do so, I started fitting in? Which makes me... uncomfortable to say the least but, I don't know.

#my year of rest and relaxation #i cant do this #I'm terrified to think I ever treated someone as horribly as the bitch in this book treats Reva #girlhood

[itgirls777]

my year of rest and relaxation 💊

Book review!

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

3/5 ⭐️

my year of rest and relaxation was such an interesting but a bit of an uneventful read. The plot consists of a young woman using prescribed medicine to escape reality and essentially ‘sleep’ for one whole year until she is ‘reborn’. we are never revealed what the main character’s name is yet we learn so much about her. i have never read a book like this before with not much plot yet so much substance. i really found it interesting; her perspective on life, the shitty-sometimes boyfriend, the best friend enemy ‘reva’ and her overall way of coping with it. the novel was like reading someone’s monologue inside their head for a year who uses drugs to cope- and romanticises it; i.e, “sleep became my sanctuary, my escape from the horrors of reality" encapsulates the protagonist's desperate pursuit of respite from an overwhelming and disillusioning world. she finds solace in the depths of sleep, using it as a method of numbing her emotions and shutting out the chaos that surrounds her. i am in wonder of whether I will ever read it again when I am older - maybe then my understanding of the novel will deepen. But my thoughts on the book itself is that it’s a confusing, wonderful, disturbing yet romantic, unhealthy yet revitalising, satirical yet serious and completely depressing yet incandescently happy….. or something to that effect. It’s the type of novel that leaves you wondering, questioning that of the morals of life, of love, of growth. It gave me the similar impact ‘the virgin suicides’ gave me; leaving me questioning; almost to ask myself “is it healthy or seen through the perceived notion of a romantic sense”. As I progress through the novel, I wonder this. This book made me see that there is an art to doing nothing, the main character literally “rots” and then after a year is reborn. An art so horrifying yet romantic, to some that it’s almost beautiful in a tragic way. This book has definitely left a lasting impression on me on which one would never forget. thank you ottessa moshfegh!

#female hysteria #femcel #manic pixie dream girl #hyper feminine #feminine #my year of rest and relaxation #coquette #lana del rey #lana del rey aka lizzy grant #girlblogger #rotting #just a girl #female insanity #pink #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #this is what makes us girls #tumblr girls #alana champion #otessa moshfegh #feminine hysteria #jeff buckley #corecore #sadgirl #girl interrupted #girl interrupted syndrome #female manipulator #female rage

[givemearmstopraywith]

yes lapvona it is better, but i agree so much with your vision about her lack of .... i don't know?? maybe originality about the form she express the trauma and everything ??? so plastic, maybe

at the risk of bringing up another extremely contentious author i have the same complaint about hanya yanagihara- both of them have written about sexual exploitation (of young men even) and i really don't like how its dealt with by both. but i think in both cases, they are women coming from upper middle class backgrounds (and yes, i'm going to gripe about women from upper middle class backgrounds again- forgive me, forgive me, but i am nothing if not a vicious and unforgiving marxist) and unfortunately class does impact the effectiveness and experience of dealing with trauma. class allows escape, therapy, resources, that being poor doesn't allow. it also allows a certain kind of traumatic indulgence that the survival required by poverty cannot indulge. i think my year of rest and relaxation really shows that- it's literally about someone who is able to check out of their life without worrying about their physical safety, housing stability, etc- in contrast to someone like reva, who cannot. and reva is portrayed as vapid and jealous for their class difference, which i'd argue is just bad class consciousness because, not that i expect moshfegh to have any, nor is that the point of the book, even though it is. and i think it's based on her experiences with chronic illness anyway, so i'm certainly not judging: it's a fantasy.

i think the feeling i get from moshfegh's writing is that she isn't revealing anything. she revels in absurdity, but doesn't reveal anything new in that absurdity, in which case i don't understand the absurdity: there's a certain blandness to it, because all of writing seems to be devoid of emotion. not even numbness: eileen and the narrator of myorar are emotionally numb, but this translates to emotionless writing. i dont feel anything when i read moshfegh's work. it's technically good, she has the mfa voice down gloriously, but it lacks a soul.

#replies

[lolasimms]

I just completed My year of rest and relaxation and I think Reva’s story is heartbreaking. She is girlhood personified. She spent the most vital years of her adulthood trying to be accepted, trying to fit in, regarding herself in a deprecating way, and it was all for nothing. Her character exhibits that life is too short to be spent yearning to become the image of what society deems beautiful.

#my year of rest and relaxation #ottessa moshfegh #yorgos lanthimos #books #revamyyearofrestandrelaxation #lana del rey #girlblogging #booksummary #myorar #lapvona #Eileen