For the better or for the worst, which book actually affected you. I’ll start, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Such an amazing book, well written and suprised me.
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The blurb on the back stated that each Lisbon sister k1lled themselves one by one. What I was expecting was throughout every 3 or so chapters, a Lisbon sister would kill themselves. But actually, 85% of the book, was only 1 Lisbon sister dead and the other 4 alive until the end when they all k1lled themselves. If I was told that the large majority of the book was just about the Lisbon girls life through the eyes of teenage boys and then eventually in the end they all k1ll themselves, I would probably be less interested in the book. But this book was hard to put down, it was so well written with amazing vocabulary and it spent the right amount of time explaining things (instead of using 12 pages to describe a staircase or only 3 sentences to describe a plot etc). It kept me interested and also with it being on a slightly alarming topic (suicide), it gave the book an eerie feeling which filled me with a strange comfort.
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Some parts where heart-breaking (even more being from South America) and the end left me in a void after the amazing story.
Memory of Fire, Book One: Genesis by Eduardo Galeano - Many true tales of South-America’s origins, when the spanish/europeans arrive after the first half of the book it’s horrific how it devolves into carnage and violence.
Cipher by Kathe Koja - Just finished this one, some parts where really unnerving, the descriptions of the effects of the Funhole (a floating space of nothing) in things and it explodes into chaos.