Rated 4.5 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
Reading this for our book club 👩🏻🏫 join us 🧛🏻♀️ FINISHED: Me in the first 85% of the book: eeeh a bit cringe but can’t look away haha I’m hooked haha 😬 Me in the last 15% of the book: ……. 🫣…… An insider look into the prudish upper-class society of 1870s New York and what happens when its members don’t behave exactly as expected. Yikes... Strangely, despite being set in such a specific time and place, it addresses many dilemmas that people have always experienced, and still do, regardless of place and class. Edith Wharton’s attention to detail is brilliant, especially in the nuances of characters’ thoughts. Newland Archer has such delulu moments that are awfully obvious to you as a reader just because of the tiny bits she weaves into his inner monologue and his resulting behavior. It feels like a catastrophe unfolding, and it seems like everyone can tell except him. And can they? It takes a bit of getting used to all the names and relationships between families. I have a conspiracy theory: ||May MUST have been (subconscious) inspiration for Amy from Gone Girl, her behaviour, activities, how she’s perceived by others, even her looks are all eerily similar, and especially that “final” moment, it literally gave me the creeps!? And it’s also an…. Anagram.. May?? Amy?? Anyone?? Just me…?|| Discussion available in the book club hehe
