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JOMP Book Photo Challenge | 6th July 2021:Contemporary
Part 3 of my Valentine’s post
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Valentine’s Day is just a capitalist scam that monetizes people’s need to show love BUT HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO THEM<3
Rating: ★★★★★
I was so pleasantly surprised by Daisy Jones & The Six. I thought this would just be a quick, light read that follows the trope you would think it would when thinking of a girl joining a rock band, but it was so much more (and better) than that. Immediately when I started reading I was intrigued by the interesting format of the book. The story is told in the style of an interview with the band members in present day as they all talk about their rise to fame and how the band came to fall apart in the 70’s.
What really hits the hardest in this book was the characters and how well rounded they were. The book heavily features addiction, temptation, love and subsequent heartbreak, dedication, and epitomizes the rock and roll ideal. The musical aspects of the story are told in enough detail to be understandable but not too much detail to confuse someone who isn’t as music-savvy.
The heartbreak and the cycles of addiction are something that really get through to you even through the interview style formatting; even without the present-tense body language you feel and understand it. This book really showcased desires vs. responsibility, dedication to becoming the person you want to be, the battles that you come across in the process.
The ending was both quietly tragic and satisfying in a way that made this book as good as it was.
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Saylor Rains
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#6 – Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Rating: 2/5 stars
What a disappointment.
The plot was mildly engaging, eventually. It took me about half the book to start to care, though, because of the presentation. I don’t think the interview format is a good choice for a number of reasons:
1. It takes a long time to differentiate characters because so many of them are presented so quickly, and in small chunks of transcript that don’t give any individual much chance to develop a clear voice.
2. It doesn’t lend itself to the page well, compared with visual media. Even if I intellectually understand that these are snippets interlaced from presumably separate interviews with the subjects, presenting them all at once gives the sense that they’re all in a room together talking to the interviewer, and I had to remind myself frequently that that was probably never the case. In a film or television documentary, you would see each character separately in frame as they were speaking to reinforce this (or not, if anyone was actually interviewed together.) The cuts between segments would be clear, where on the page everything runs together for the length of the section.
3. The style is flat and unrelieved; it never changes tempo or tension, because it’s always a single person speaking about themselves or someone else, and there’s no body language included to give indicators on how they’re speaking. Only vocal sounds like [laughs], [chuckles], etc., are included, which further flatten the narrative.
My other complaint is that the revelation near the end of the interviewer’s/author’s identity felt unnecessary. Once I knew what was going on, I realized that’s why I’d been seeing a certain [name] in brackets for clarity to the reader, because the interview subjects had been referring to them another way that would have spoiled the mystery. Except there was no mystery? Because I never thought it was going to be important in the slightest who the interviewer was, as there was very little in the text beyond those infrequent clarifications to even hint that the interviewer’s identity needed to be concealed somehow. It’s all setup for a somewhat maudlin ending that ties up the plot neatly but was so clearly attempting to be a tearjerker that I didn’t cry, because the presentation of the story had prevented me from being fully invested in these characters. I was too detached, because everything was so lifeless.
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