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lofi posted:Just finished reading, and enjoyed it more than I expected. Yeah, I liked this about the book. The librarian has an extremely difficult time having a "complete" relationship, most likely because of trauma from being burned by past partners (at least one of which is explicitly mentioned in the story). She actually likes the Director and Homer, but still can't manage to make a real connection with them beyond screwing. lofi posted:It's quite impressive how badly this misses the point - the bear isn't anthropomorphic at all, that's its whole point, it's not even called by a name other than 'bear' The librarian does anthropomorphize the bear though, right? Unless thats what you mean. She thinks the bear is giving her facial expressions and that the bear somehow has "depth". The funniest thing is when the Director sends her that second letter and she tells him in her head to "Go screw a book". Because thats pretty much what shes been doing via the bear. She can't call him Trelawny because the bear is just one more of her incomplete relationships. The bear can't (won't?) gently caress her because obviously its a bear and is not interested romantically in her. A part of her knows this, since she has to keep rubbing stuff on her vag so the bear can eat her out. Also sometimes the bear will just wander off while doing so (LOL). DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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lofi posted:The getting bored and wandering off made me laugh, too. I guess she does interpret the bear's moods, yeah. I'd been more thinking of how often the text refers to it as unknowable/unreadable/etc, but that's more a third-person description than Lou's own. Christ, you know you've got issues when you're shagging a bear I don't have the book in front of me, but I do remember it saying that she loved the Director for a week and that she thought he was charming. What she thinks of Homer might be a bit more complex, and on second thought I probably need to look through the book again to see what she thought of him. Despite my profile saying that I'm a porpoise, I'm a dude and biased etc. so I'd be interested to read more opinions from women on what they thought about the librarian's relationships.
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Bilirubin posted:And I am super happy I didn't get tricked in Book was better than I expected, but winning a GG's award seems far fetched. I'm not super familiar with canadian authors, do you think there was another book that could have won that award that year?
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