Even If Everything Ends

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I would say even in the face of troubles, it only takes curiosity to have sufficient motivation to continue. It was a great analogy for the events in her life – and by the time you finish this book, you’ll understand that metaphors are everything to Janie.

And Vilja , a once self-absorbed teenage girl steps up in the face of all this adult ineptitude, to organise and resist. There was a vulnerability to those tiny garments that was almost unbearable, and they stroked the fabric, buried their noses in the material, and sniffed it as though it were a baby, as though their little sister had already arrived, and our eyes met over the shelves and we smiled at having made the right decision to come to such a crazy commercial place, at having brought the kids with us to help them understand, so that they could see and feel the flannel-soft wind that would soon blow through our lives, changing them forever, and I heard myself say, Just grab whatever you want. What really is meaning, what does why mean, addressed in the mystic sense of direct observation of our own minds and exploration of unusual ways to think and be, help to catch some of the processes by which we construct the world, and to realise that there is something unconditioned about our minds, something that precedes all the construction work of motivations and meanings. Friendships, relationships, hell even our current way's of doing things and our world view will end one day.Didrik finds himself wanting—but failing—to care for those closest to him; Melissa values individual happiness over everything else; André grows increasingly despondent and angry; and Vilja takes charge. He simultaneously assumed to role of childhood love, soulmate, and nice guy – always there for Janie but never having his love reciprocated fully.

Has this become so normal that we have become collectively numb to the fact that we are filling the earth with garbage? However, just as the book is meandering on about what seems to surmount to a teenage love triangle – the book sucker punches you with its main theme: probably readily apparent to anyone who has looked at the cover in detail. But before long she started looking around herself, asking the woman behind the counter about cloth diapers, about organic fabrics and ethical, climate-neutral clothing, whether they had any bath sets that were slightly less plasticky, where the cotton in those nice polka-dot cushions came from.I’ve never actually read this book and never a fan of contemporary but I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews about this book. And Vilja, a once self-absorbed teenage girl steps up in the face of all this adult ineptitude, to organise and resist.