![]() ![]() I can even get through books where I don't "like" the main character. I can handle books where the characters wallow in depression. I can handle books that are at their core very dull. Yeah, don't get any feeling that she loves them deeply but is just rather fond of them. Not even her kids seem to evoke much feeling in her, though she clearly likes the younger two better-likes. 99% of the book is about a woman who has/takes no pleasure or joy in her life (so the reader doesn't get any either). We are stuck in her head the rest of the time. ![]() I realized that even if the very little dialogue there is in this book, and Anna rarely says more than three short sentences at most-usually questions. She admits she "lets" men sleep with her because she's passive, just doesn't have the energy or wherewithal to say, "No, I'm not going to have sex with you, my husband's friend, whom I've met 12 times but can't remember your name, out in the woods." Right. Character has little insight or if she does, she doesn't do anything with it-the classic is her passivity. Relentlessly depressing book about a relentlessly depressed character. Great audio narrator What didn't work: 1. Meditations on the German and Swiss German language and how the verb tenses, etc. ![]() Wonderful writing pathetic, passive protagonist & ![]()
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