Review of "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I picked this book on my way back home from a shopping sessions, from one of those spots where free books are left so people could pick them up. I grabbed this one, put it quickly in my paper bag and left, as it was raining hard.
Expectations, I had not. Probably I expected to be something that everyone could easily read and that would have a predictable future. Rather than finding a perfect, dream-like life-story, I found a more real one, that kept me trapped between the pages for longer than I have expected.
Various stages of her life, various men, various expectations and various ways of misunderstanding. Not the man, but herself.
A journey of self-discovery, through the eyes of the others, while trying to distance herself from the other people she has encountered on her way. Easy to say, difficult to do.
This is what life is …
I picked this book on my way back home from a shopping sessions, from one of those spots where free books are left so people could pick them up. I grabbed this one, put it quickly in my paper bag and left, as it was raining hard.
Expectations, I had not. Probably I expected to be something that everyone could easily read and that would have a predictable future. Rather than finding a perfect, dream-like life-story, I found a more real one, that kept me trapped between the pages for longer than I have expected.
Various stages of her life, various men, various expectations and various ways of misunderstanding. Not the man, but herself.
A journey of self-discovery, through the eyes of the others, while trying to distance herself from the other people she has encountered on her way. Easy to say, difficult to do.
This is what life is at the end of the day: a turmoil of events, in which at the end of the day, regardless of the path one decides to take, the only certainty is its finite characteristic.
