bookish contradictions 👉👈

i know a lot of people love it is written very beautifully i had some other problems with it beyond just the russia stuff i thought it was kind of boring and i thought it just turned into a silas marner clone

there was so much wrong with this romance book i don't think really anything about it worked i didn't think there was compatibility between the two main characters i didn't like the execution of either one of those tropes

while i wouldn't say i loved middle sex i thought the way it handled gender issues was a little bit strange i really enjoyed it i thought the multi-generational family saga element of it was really fun

i reread it every single june this upcoming june will be my eighth reading of it so my seventh reread i love it i discover new things in it every single time i read it i feel like a piece of my heart belongs to that book

i think what the author was actually trying to do with this book has been largely overlooked and that really bums me out because i think it's brilliantly done

i like the memoir portions i thought those were really nice they were touching i enjoyed reading them it was the science sections that made me want to rip my hair out

i really disliked the marriage plot when i read it back in 2015 that's probably an understatement i would still probably call it my least favorite book of all time i really didn't like it

nor does it take away from my love of the night circus which is awesome

i fell in love with it's probably now one of my all-time favorite works of fiction

i thought the starless sea was really self-indulgent like on the part of aaron morgenstern lots of imagery for the sake of imagery i found the story just meandered never fully understood what the story was what the purpose of the book was i just found it to be very unsuccessful

i like that about a love triangle because it's clear in this book that there's no animosity or contention between these two men they're not going to get in a fist fight over her it's just about this main character making a choice