this is me debuting my self proclaimed status as a review hobbyist. i'm in a creative writing drought so i'll turn my efforts into analyzing other texts until my own literary merits and capabilities return. and also i forgot about this blog...
🕊️ starting my book blogging era with a review of common decency by susannah dickey.
full review
i quite like the girlfailure archetype. an absolute loser of a character whose journey is a lot more tolerable and amusing when it’s fictional. i like to be in a position where i can consume their sad behavior from a distance, without studying my own habits, whether that be in television or literature. i started susannah dickey’s common decency with that very expectation. instead, i left the belfast apartment behind, closed the book, and realized that i wouldn’t be able to look at the clothing pile beside my bed in the same light ever again. common decency is gross. not in content—well, some of the descriptions are gross, yes—but by the pure sense of pathetic-ness from each of the main girls. dickey packs so much disappointment and disillusion into their person. the story follows two women who live in the same apartment complex as they navigate the sorrows that come with loving and losing. siobhán, who lives upstairs, doubles as a primary school teacher and a mistress. lily, directly downstairs, is strange and observant and obsessed with the siobhán she perceives in her head.
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