To be completely honest, the title of this book absolutely made me go back and listen to the Elvis song by the same name. That was on loop during this book. But that’s a side tangent. In all honesty, at the start of this book I didn’t love the fact that it was in first […]
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with family, life, memory, Men still suck, motherhood
Love Me Tender is a novel filled with themes like manipulation, homophobia, and despair. Debré, a woman who has divorced her husband and come out as a lesbian, is met with overwhelming challenges. She struggles personally with her identity, emotionally…
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with despair, Love me Tender, pain
Love Me Tender is a novel filled with themes like manipulation, homophobia, and despair. Debré, a woman who has divorced her husband and come out as a lesbian, is met with overwhelming challenges. She struggles personally with her identity, emotionally…
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with despair, Love me Tender, pain
I just finished Love Me Tender by Constance Debré, and I feel a bit conflicted about it in a way that actually made the experience more interesting. Going into it, I wasn’t expecting something this emotionally heavy. The story follows Constance after she loses custody of her son, and that situation kind of hangs over […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Constance Debré, Love me Tender, motherhood, Uncategorized
Reading Love Me Tender by Constance Debré felt kind of like being dropped into someone’s brain mid-thought with no filter, no neat explanations, just raw emotion and sharp observations. It’s definitely not a traditional narrative, and that’s one of the first things I noticed. The writing is stripped down, almost blunt, and it moves in […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Uncategorized
Reading “Love Me Tender” was a very interesting experience. The writing felt a bit similar to “The Book of Chameleons” in that some of the chapters are extremely short and the narration is simple to understand.I like that Constance decided to live her …
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with gender, Homosexuality, Love me Tender, parenthood, satisfaction
Reading “Love Me Tender” was a very interesting experience. The writing felt a bit similar to “The Book of Chameleons” in that some of the chapters are extremely short and the narration is simple to understand.I like that Constance decided to live her …
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with gender, Homosexuality, Love me Tender, parenthood, satisfaction
Hi blogggg!!! I can’t believe that this is the last book I’m reading for this class!! I was wondering how I feel about this book. But in the end, I can relate to her surrender. I had a similar experience when my parents split up. It was a bi…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with
Hi blogggg!!! I can’t believe that this is the last book I’m reading for this class!! I was wondering how I feel about this book. But in the end, I can relate to her surrender. I had a similar experience when my parents split up. It was a bi…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with
There are a lot of topics in this book that shook me to the core. What does it mean to be a woman? Moreover, a gay woman? Moreoverover a gay woman who’s a mother. Because of this book, I questioned my perception of love, whether I was seeing things through too much of a fantastical lens, whether I got love all…
Posted in Blogs, Debre | Tagged with cope, lies, liked, love, motherhood, sacrafice, sex
