"Do you know how it is to be around you all the time ? - your moods, your energy? "- Jenny
🚶George by Kate Greathead is witty, engaging and portraying many in one.
🚶 This book tests my patience at another level. I think reading George is one type of self-loathing - it provokes different types of self-disappointment in yourself.
🚶 The book revolves around George's life - from childhood to around his 30s or 40s.
🚶 Each chapter has a different George featured in the plot - so you will realize that you didn't even know the character you're trying to connect.
🚶 George is one of those guys who are talented and has potential, but his indifference to himself and self-centered thinking lead to major and minor failures in his life.
🚶 Despite being talented, he never stuck up to any of his jobs, not even his girlfriend Jenny, whom he loved but never loved her !
🚶 His thinking, way of observing things, way of reacting to people will make you laugh and irritate him.
🚶 At the same time, you will feel a genuine fondness for him because, as a person, his intentions were not bad all the time.
🚶 Yes, you could call him a good son and shhitiest son at the same time, but another reason would be that he found out in his 30s that his uncle was his actual father cause lack in emotions
🚶 The scars, the subtle heartbreaks in his childhood made George so guarded and lack emotional intelligence.
🚶 His mother played a 90 % part in it, though I can't say that she was a bad mother, but she was not, certainly not good.
🚶 The only character with whom I fell in love with was Jenny. That woman was executed so precisely.
🚶 There are some moments when George strikes as a beautiful human being - like making a girl laugh, considering the feelings of his sister, trying and making efforts to consider other people's feelings. Feeling bad about lying to his high school teacher, which made him more human.
🚶 And if I am honest, there is a little part of George in every one of us - little, more, laid, hidden, open - but yes....
🚶 Worst of all -
WE ALL ARE GEORGE, SOMEWAY !