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"mine is being the main character of my year of rest and relaxation: waking up at 2 pm, binge watching something niche and stupid like early seasons of survivor or a saddam hussein documentary, drinking at 5 pm, ordering like $50 worth of delivery and barely eating any of it while continuing to drink"
"She says she's reading that rest and relaxation book and I say haha google says its racist and she gets vaguely triggered abt how she hasn't read far yet."
"The lineup of normal people/slouching towards bethlehem/just kids/all about love/crying in h mart/my year of rest and relaxation/the bell jar/the secret history on your shelf is nothing like the ones in other girls apartments"
"This is my big L that I literally am the chick from My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I studied the famously sexy but useless art history in nyc (nyu not columbia rip). Got a gallery girl job at a blue chip gallery in chelsea. I'm pretty and have mental illness for no reason. Had a mental breakdown an"
"Basically, I read My Year of Rest and Relaxation a while ago and whilst I thought it was hilarious I also thought it ultimately would've been better written as a novella."
"should've had a reality check when she awoke from her sleep coma and realised everything still sucks, her mom and dad still hate her and so does everyone else in her life and then killed herself at the end. 👎"
"Not too much romance involved, but I don't want the protagonist to be like completely neutered. ie I liked dat bitch in my year of rest and relaxation."
"I'd describe myself as similar to the narrator from Mosfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation -- I'm kind of a "cold fish" and feel so broken, disconnected, and dissatisfied with living that I don't know what to do."
"Any recommendations on recent books you've enjoyed? A few I've liked are: *My Year of Rest and Relaxation* - Otessa Moshfegh"
"My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
"after putting together your finest $20 outfit sourced from thrift stores and aliexpress you toss on a pair of shoes that costed triple your clothes before hitting the streets of whatever half decent city you live in to pick up a low cal white girl drink and a puff bar that you will reef under a tree"
"That was a really good book. A scathing take down of New York, 21st century friendships and the hypocrisy and narcissism of depression. Last 50 or so pages were a bit of a slog but the gut punch of an ending made up for it. Truly wonderful. 'Nothing was sacred. And Whoopi Goldberg proved it'"
"I loved the book, but it struck me that if the narrarator was male she wouldve just killed herself, as opposed to going through a dull, lengthy process of frying her brain with pills. Any recs for something similar that a guy might find more relatable?"
"Apparently it's going to be Margot Robbie in the lead role who is too old, Barbie looking, and athletic. Has she ever personified the term um ABJECTION? Never. Dasha would be great or a model who can actually act. Not this 35 yr old (I don't care how old she says she is, not buying it) with a Britne"
"so after my year of rest and relaxation i've finally managed to get a job. my social skills are rusty and i'm scared ill be the office weirdo or something, but i still want to make friends."
"I did it for like a year and a half and I just alienated myself and lost 115 pounds. AMA"
"My Year of Rest and Relaxation was a good read. Any more books like this? I've already read American Psycho. I wanna give contemporary lit a chance and this can't be the only good fiction to have come out recently."
"This is my big L that I literally am the chick from My Year of Rest and Relaxation."
"I read My Year of Rest and Relaxation a while ago and whilst I thought it was hilarious I also thought it ultimately would've been better written as a novella."
"should've had a reality check when she awoke from her sleep coma and realised everything still sucks, her mom and dad still hate her and so does everyone else in her life and then killed herself at the end"
"I'd describe myself as similar to the narrator from Mosfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation -- I'm kind of a "cold fish" and feel so broken, disconnected, and dissatisfied with living that I don't know what to do."
"My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
"I loved the book, but it struck me that if the narrarator was male she wouldve just killed herself, as opposed to going through a dull, lengthy process of frying her brain with pills."
"so after my year of rest and relaxation i've finally managed to get a job. my social skills are rusty and i'm scared ill be the office weirdo or something, but i still want to make friends."
"Overrated: *My Year of Rest and Relaxation* was mostly boring. The main character was insufferable, perhaps the point but would have preferred it to be half the length"