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Book Name: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Authors: Ottessa Moshfegh
Pages: 182
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publish Date: Jul 10, 2018
Language: English

Book Review:

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh this book was definitely in the must-read category i was going to put it in a must-read category for people who are watching this video but honestly and this is going to get into spoilers so this next section is going to be spoiler time i'll give you time to click away if you're not interested

but the last i don't know like chapter so kind of not didn't ruin it but just upset me what i mean by that is so spoiler time once again this is your final warning um the book ends the last page is september 11 2001

Actually forget that for a second forget that for a second i want to get to you with the larger idea that when she wakes up from or when she finally leaves her apartment from this slumber the project that she's um accomplished it actually seems to have worked which i don't really necessarily know

If i like the idea that you can sleep all your problems away i thought the moral of the story or the lesson at the end would be like she was still messed up because sleeping doesn't isn't gonna like fix all your problems there's a lot of work you have to do i think physically with yourself during waking hours

In order to heal from the different repressions and trauma that you are going through personal belief and i think the idea that you can sleep it all away and it work is a little bit irresponsible maybe on the author's part maybe that's a heavy word but that's kind of how it feels um and also i don't really like like the book is the last page like i said it um covers september 11 2001

she and our protagonist basically said that she recorded the footage of the towers falling now i want to say that her best friend riva worked in the towers at the time and she said that she saw like a woman jump from the 78th floor

she recorded that footage not because it necessarily looked like riva even though she says the person looked like riva um butch but that that woman was jumping and she and she didn't know where she where

she was gonna end up and she was wide awake so she plays that video every time she needs courage or every time she's bored or every time what whatnot because of that image that this woman is jumping and doesn't know where it's going to lead but she's wide awake

i'm like is that supposed to be inspirational you know how can that possibly be inspirational obviously that woman is going to die if she's jumping you know 70 floors you know so it's like it's it's like are you saying that the death of this woman is inspirational because she was leaping to her death like

I don't understand the logic behind that and it kind of felt weird and exploitative i i don't know i just like don't like the use of real-life tragedies in stories like this but but like

I could see why people wouldn't necessarily mind it i mean obviously that that tragedy marked kind of the end of this paradigm of of the glitz and glamour like i was saying so it makes sense that her new identity would be ushered in with this new era but i i don't know my feelings are very complicated on it

I can see both sides essentially i understand why 911 was put in the book do i like that it was the last page and do i like how our protagonist um came away feeling about it no i do not but is that in line with her character

so is this so it's very hard it's very hard for me to reconcile my feelings on that because it is in line with her character and i'm not going to call moshfeg for writing a character consistently that's one of the things

I graph about in other books so yes i'm glad that you wrote the character consistently but it's it's still kind of off-putting i don't know i don't know if it ruins the whole book honestly i i finished it yesterday and i thought it was one of the better books i'd read this year um and after i slept on it

I had different feelings i'm trying to um reconcile which of those feelings is correct i think it's still an important book to read because i think it's a very interesting premise and i haven't read a book like this in some time

I appreciate the humor that's used i appreciate um a lot of the ideas that are explored so it's like does the ending ruin the book it's it's hard i'm gonna say i want you guys to read it because i think overall

It's an interesting book and i think the fact that i felt so perturbed by the ending necessarily by the fact that her sleep solution worked by the use of 9 11 in this book the fact that i was angered by it um i think the fact that it evoked a powerful emotion in me at all is kind of speaking to the book's

Quality and speaking to the fact that you should read it because it's better to feel strongly in one direction about a book than feel nothing for it at all right now i'm gonna give this book a seven out of ten again i'm still working out a lot of my feelings on it i think the humor is again something to admire i think

I think this book tells a lot about socioeconomics in a very interesting way and a very interesting discussion of privilege there's definitely a lot you can talk about with this book so for that reason alone I'm

I'm still going to say read it because it stimulates the mind okay this book stimulates the mind and that is enough of an endorsement for me but let me know what you guys think.

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