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Rebecca
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bookshelves: adult, classic-lit, owned, adult-historical, adult-thriller-mystery, fiction, read-in-2024
Apr 20, 2024
bookshelves: adult, classic-lit, owned, adult-historical, adult-thriller-mystery, fiction, read-in-2024
Rebecca walked so Gone Girl’s Amy Dunne could run!
All in all, gorgeous writing. There is a keen sense of suspense in the beginning that kept me riveted to the page. Such a gnawing and permeating portrait of anxiety, painting so clearly the feeling of being wound up so tight, a piano wire so taut it might snap at any moment. The novel, unfortunately, does not sustain it throughout, and the thrill sags somewhere around the middle. Respectfully to our unnamed narrator, I think this would have been a more compelling read if it switched to Rebecca’s perspective at some point. What can I say? I support women's rights, but I fucking dig women's wrongs.
All in all, gorgeous writing. There is a keen sense of suspense in the beginning that kept me riveted to the page. Such a gnawing and permeating portrait of anxiety, painting so clearly the feeling of being wound up so tight, a piano wire so taut it might snap at any moment. The novel, unfortunately, does not sustain it throughout, and the thrill sags somewhere around the middle. Respectfully to our unnamed narrator, I think this would have been a more compelling read if it switched to Rebecca’s perspective at some point. What can I say? I support women's rights, but I fucking dig women's wrongs.
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Reading Progress
January 11, 2023
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April 14, 2024
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Started Reading
April 15, 2024
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8.95%
""I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say."
aaand this goes into the Quotes Book"
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34
aaand this goes into the Quotes Book"
April 15, 2024
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15.79%
"“Perhaps, once she had gone, he would talk to me at last, about loving me, about being happy. Up to now there had been no time, and anyway those things are not easily said, they must wait their moment.�
me when I'm being delulu
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page
60
me when I'm being delulu
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April 17, 2024
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38.42%
"“How absurd to say we are not companions,� I said; “why look how we sit here every evening, you with a book or a paper, and me with my knitting. Just like cups of tea. Just like old people, married for years and years.�
mind you, she's 21 and he's 42. sis should've been at the club"
page
146
mind you, she's 21 and he's 42. sis should've been at the club"
April 20, 2024
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Finished Reading
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Apr 22, 2024 12:13PM
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i loved this book, but girl, i second you absolutely
Rebecca's walking, Gone Girl's running, and Verity's falling flat on her face.
Totally agree Rebecca deserved more voice! I don’t trust De Winter. It felt like his word against hers, and his behavior throughout his relationship with new bride was erratic, and usually less than heroic. He was never on her side, and he let her punish herself for neuroses HE created in her psyche
