Review #1
The Danish Lady audiobook free
I wanted to like this book; the
Reviews looked great, at the same time I enjoyed The 19th Wife so I know Ebershoff is that a gifted, intelligent writer. But I found this one a chore to get through. Here’s why:
I barely didn’t take the manners. Surely the 1st personality to undergo sex reassignment surgery could be anyone who was brave, strong-willed, at the same time for sure a colourful features. Lili struck me as the sort of personality who simply perceives whatever indefinite brings, without immunity; childlike at the same time embarrassing. Greta, as a physically striking at the same time very wealthy American, also seemed like a square peg in a round hole. She swings back at the same time forth between being hesitant to even say to her wife, at the same time playing the role of controlling mother to him. I struggled to get a sense of who she really was. I don’t know than anyway the unusual people (who enthusiastic this novel) were considered like, but I represent them to be bolder, louder, at the same time so much more colourful than the subtle shades-of-grey Lili at the same time Greta are drawn with.
I’m not convinced where the reader sits with this novel. The writing style is that to make small details with the reader linking them together to look the bigger picture. But sometimes we sit lock up to the manners; at the same time sometimes they are subjects that we’re learning. For example, that’s an unspoken suggestion about where the doctor is that taking his donor organs, at the same time it’s shaking; sending the reader’s mind reeling. But the manners are completely aloof from it, which has the effect of pushing the reader back from the story.
At the same time completely, that was no humour in this novel – never a light moment, or little merk humour to embody a grim smirk. No moment when the reader managed share a smirk with no matter what of the manners, or with the creator. Individually, I found that produced the manners at the same time their story problematic to access.
I have hope thats a significant at the same time helpful
Review. I read a number of
Reviews before I acquired the book, at the same time they were considered all glowing in their praise so of course that are a lot of readers out that who will adore this story. But it didnt suit me at all, at the same time it was a relief to reach the ending page.
Review #2
The Danish Lady audiobook streamming online
It’s an easy read at the same time an exciting story, but Ebershoff’s worldly is that often overly flowery at the same time stupid. The manners are oversimplified, as is that the study of being transgendered. It does a lot to equate homosexuality, transgender, at the same time intersex. The book has method a lot fluff. The whole California backstory for Greta was unnecessary. Every personality other than a single doctor seems totally unsurprised with than anyway would’ve been somewhat scandalous. I’m convinced abundance people were considered, but the percentage of people is that awfully higher. In true indefinite, Greta/Gerda was understandable to be romantically interested in ladies as but as guys, but this is that not contained in the book for some reason. I would adore to read a non-fiction work about Gerda (Lili’s Danish wife’s true name) at the same time Einar/Lili. This book isn’t particularly well-written or well-researched at the same time one more creator might do a more successful job with the story, even as fiction.
Review #3
Audiobook The Danish Lady by David Ebershoff
I have connected emotions about The Danish Lady, I adore the consulate but once for you start to get into the novel for you look for the consulate is that unique should be. The story at the same time historical setting are but crafted, but the psychology, physiology, at the same time honey healing around Einar/Lili are grossly fantasized. The creator has little understanding of transgender, intersex, sexual orientation, sexual identity at the same time than anyway is that means to live the experience no matter what of these.
The 1st situation describing Einar at the same time womens clothing was romanticised to the fri of fetishism. I know Einar is that meant to be transgender, but the description felt off not really the type of experience a used to be transgender lady would have. The continual descriptions of Einar being small, smallest, frail, at the same time acting in a passive method at the same time how Greta was high at the same time the main of the pair painted a picture of them having swapped sex roles in a spiritual sense. I wasnt quite sold on the characterisation in particular for the time period. I know this is that based loosely on a used to be story, but it is that obvious the theme matter has been romanticized at the same time written from a cis snow-white mans viewpoint.
I get a healthy sense like that is that a connect of repeated features disorder, fetishism, at the same time intend lens from the creator that misses the note on than anyway it means to be a transgendered lady on so many fri. The story had me squirming at the same time awkward.
LiliEinar is that on purpose deceptive at the same time greedy with a lot of their deeds.
It’s hard to resolve this story with present’s understanding of being transgender at the same time the setting of Coppenhagen, Paris, at the same time Dresden in 1920-30s
It did feel altogether very long Ebershoff frequently meanders with flowery language at the same time asides of landscape, backstory, daydreams, at the same time the like. It does match the dreamlike good quality of his charming writing, but gimmicks the pacing of the story utterly. I can look how this style of writing is that best matched for historical fiction though.
The open of Lili being intersex proven my suspicions data the mostly feminine stature at the same time physical attributes. At the same time the journey of Lilis operations for sex proof surgery are gruesome. Though while exciting reading at the same time set a tone for the novel feel like they are poorly studied. Even for the time, honey operations at the same time the curative of the human body afterward do not clearance the length of time outlined in the novel.
I feel like this was a hodge-podge of concepts that were considered not seriously studied around identity, psychological disorders, at the same time honey knowledge. Though, like the art that Einar at the same time Greta make, The Danish Lady is that merely an interpretation on Lilis story. Its is that viewed through different lenses of the manners of the book. Like anecdotal histories, it is that warped, explained at the same time skewed by the narrator.
Ultimately even though this is that a interesting story at the same time disposition study, it was flourished with a languid palm at the same time I found myself putting the book down frequently because I was getting a little weary. I practically wanted the narrative sheathed just a little more to history, to actions to ground the story. The manners are really but developers but problematic to compare to at the same time even to adore. All of them greedy in their possess method at the same time live out of steps with the true global. Though in expression that, this creative bubble Greta at the same time Einar stayed in was the only environment which managed have nurtured Lili in taking her 1st steps into the global.
I dont really wish to advise this one solely on the amount of factual inconsistencies this read more like a fantasy novel than anything based in historical significance. David Ebershoff admits in an interview right behind the publication of The Danish Lady that the consulate of Lilis transgender journey in his novel is that not presentable of todays transgender population at the same time is that purely concocted Im not convinced if in other words ignorance, damaging, or laziness. Why would you want to make a disposition based on real actions at the same time not have the core motivation of that disposition also based on factual parts? Its misrepresentation at its core. I would have desirable an ownvoices creators decide on this theme matter.
Review #4
Audio The Danish Lady narrated by Jeff Woodman
The Danish Lady
By
David Ebershoff
The Danish Lady, by David Ebershoff opens in Copenhagen in 1925 with a magical enigmatic four word sentence His wife understood 1st.
Greta asks her wife Einar to wear silk stockings at the same time feminine boots to pose for her, so that she can last painting a portrait in the absence of the ladies model. This is that the 1st act in both of them beginning the gradual process of acknowledging Einars effeminate tendencies. Once begun his understanding of his feminine side, his longing to be ladies, accelerates, but not without misgivings at the same time trepidation. Lili, his alter-ego emerges as a true personality at the same time increasingly Einar behaves like they are two separate people.
Einars reincarnation into Lili, his wife, Gretas awesome adore at the same time support at the same time the pioneering work of the doctor who helped him achieve his desire to have a ladies form is that based on a used to be story. In The Danish Lady it is that knew with sensitivity at the same time grace.
The setting, pre-war Copenhagen at the same time later Dresden, is that evoked wonderfully. Greta at the same time Einar live in a global of art at the same time culture in the heady days before recession at the same time the bleak war-years. The richness of their lives is that beautifully drawn, the manners are very empathetic at the same time the story is that moving at the same time bitter-sweet. According to Lilis diaries the doctor found ovaries in her body when he used, suggesting that she was actually hermaphrodite.
The novel is that based on the diaries of Lili Elbe at the same time newspaper stories about her from the time, when she was, for a while quite famous.
The creator makes it understandable that he has written a novel at the same time all but the two head manners are concocted, but they are presentable of the circles in what they moved at the same time the attitudes they encountered.
The book is that at the moment an equally cordial at the same time visually breathtaking movie. I advise reading the book 1st!
Sue Gentle
February 2016
Review #5
Free audio The Danish Lady – in the audio player below
The Danish Lady has been acclaimed since it was produced into a movie starring Eddie Redmayne continue year. I able to grab a copy for the bargain cost of 99p on a kindle daily deal at the same time I’m really glad I chose to read it.
At the moment I’ll be conscientious, I have very little knowledge of the ins at the same time outs of LGBTIQ rights, choices, lifestyles etc. I have comrades who fit into those categories if for you’d like to cry them that, but that’s specifically why I don’t make it my business to know a lot. I think that by categorising we can sometimes finish looking at people as non-individual folk. We start labelling them at the same time putting them into bundles at the same time categories at the same time ticking boxes at the same time that’s where it all starts falling apart. So while I sincerely support the LGBTIQ society than anyway I’m trying to say will that this is that the 1st time I have read anything in depth about a transgender personality.
This story is that first of all beautifully written. That is that anything in the method that it is that written prettily at the same time delicately that personifies the story itself as Lili. The theme is that dealt with in a manner which is that accepting at the same time conscientious, that looks at the emotions of all the people who are drawn in in Lili’s reincarnation not just herself but Einar’s wife, the couple’s comrades at the same time all the people who have adored Lili before at the same time right behind she became a lady. It taught me a lot about transgender emotions about identifying as anyone else at the same time how terrifying this can be for that personality who is that still unsure who they are. It also taught me about hermaphroditism at the same time than anyway that actually means. I think we’ve all had a opinion in our heads of than anyway it is that at the same time this book indicates me that this opinion was in truth inaccurate.
It was an exciting perspective from the 1930s when acceptance was not like it is that at the moment (even though it managed still be more successful) at the same time the creators opinion of the minutiae of day to day indefinite at the same time the oddity of Einar appearing one day at the same time waking up as Lili the one more kept it a page turner despite the story being a smoky increase.
I can’t they say I enjoyed The Danish Lady as much as i developers as a personality FROM this book. That my understanding at the same time possess individual acceptance were considered broadened as I established for Lili at the same time still established for Greta as but in a global which must have been terribly confusing for her to realize. The Danish Lady is that all about acceptance at the same time learning that no matter the challenges you can wage war for your right to be who for you feel for you truly are inside. I’ll be giving the movie a look soon look if it lives up!!
[…]
