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# My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

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Review: IF YOU GET IT YOU GET IT, IF YOU DON’T THAN YOU DON’T *SPOILER FREE REVIEW* - Keep in mind: This is not a spoiler because the text verbs and choice of words identifies that the narrator is speaking PAST TENSE. The book starts off with her remembering the said year when her slumber began. These events ALREADY HAPPENED — we are learning them from her - a time frame beyond the title. Many of the reviews I’ve read criticized the book for being redundant, disgusting, or confusing. Mentions of ableist due to talks of retardation, etc. I don’t see it that way. That language reflects who the main character is: blunt, short-worded, harsh, and unfiltered. We learn this from the very beginning. Yes, this book delivers exactly what the summary promises. Our main character is sleeps away a year due based off many reasons to her. HOWEVER—if you’ve ever experienced depression or serious mental health struggles, you understand where she’s coming from. And I mean real depression, grief, apathy, disgust with the world—not simply “being sad” or “needing to get a grip.” Her attempt to drug herself into a year-long sleep is exaggerated, but not so unrealistic when you consider her mental state. Her end goal was to wake up as a new person. Believes that this project will set her up to be ready to “live again” when she awakens. Why does this matter? If you have ever: • Grieved: that made others uncomfortable • Felt annoyed/overwhelmed others concern • Realized too late what you had • Experienced true emotional numbness …then you understand this narrator. She has a nihilistic view of the world—apathy, emptiness, and a desire to escape without wanting to die. TONE: flat, emotionless, and repetitive. Why? Because that is how the narrator felt during that era. She is speaking from reflecting on a time in her life that she numbed from. This book clearly creates a split in readers depending on their life experiences and expectations: Opinion A: Enjoyed the book, appreciates the darkness, bleakness, and irony, understands the narrator’s background. Opinion B: Hated the book, found it gross, dehumanizing, regrets buying it, and believes it glorifies drugging oneself into oblivion. Opinion C: Neutral, found it okay, nothing special, nothing terrible. It’s obvious the author wrote this for a specific audience. She beautifully captures how life catches up fast, how people change, and how certain experiences shape us. DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TYPICAL “coming-of-age” novel. This is NOT that. This is narrating a past event where she slept for a whole year and what she got out of it. Most average readers are not the target audience. If you prefer happy endings, or filtered positivity, this is not your book. If you read the summary and then feel shocked that you are reading darkness… I’m not sure what to tell you. The narrator is also clearly OLDER RETELLING THE PAST: indicates she was (x) amount of years old during that year of her project. She was young and not where society expects emotional maturity or closure. She’s counting to her mistakes and behavior in ways that are messy or socially unacceptable. That’s real life. Things happen & it changes people. This novel simply shows what usually happens behind closed doors and within the mind. ALL IN ALL: I loved this book. I understand the main character. The juxtaposition and character foils work well. It’s straightforward with predictable outcomes—but that’s exactly what the summary sets up, so I don’t understand why some reviewers are confused. Sometimes it takes a jarring, painful awakening to make you feel differently about living.
Review: Thought provoking and a bit scary to read - Reading this book was totally out of my comfort zone. It is a New Your Times best seller but isn’t a funny modern fiction or dramatic historical fiction book. Instead this book was super serious and a bit depressing, yet fascinating. It’s the year 2000 and our unnamed narrator is struggling. She is well educated, gorgeous, has a super easy job and is wealthy beyond belief. Yet, she’s incredibly unhappy. To deal with her angst and misery she decides to begin taking copious amounts of prescriptions meds prescribed by her completely unethical psychologist. At first she uses them to simply float through her life, but soon she sees potential to escape reality as she knows it. She keeps on taking more powerful drugs, resulting in the loss of her job and days where she has no recollection of her movements…and must piece together what happened by random voice messages and digging through her trash. Instead of scaring her straight, it encourages her to delve deeper into the darkness to totally escape feeling ANY emotion. This book is thought provoking, and a bit scary to read. After reading it, I can see how easy it would be to do exactly what the narrator does. At the end of the book I really had a new compassion for how hard it can be for some people to live through the many emotions that come up in daily life.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,351 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Dark Humor #20 in Fiction Satire #284 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (21,260) |
| Dimensions  | 5.03 x 0.84 x 7.73 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0525522131 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0525522133 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 304 pages |
| Publication date  | June 25, 2019 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ IF YOU GET IT YOU GET IT, IF YOU DON’T THAN YOU DON’T *SPOILER FREE REVIEW*
*by B***I on November 22, 2025*

Keep in mind: This is not a spoiler because the text verbs and choice of words identifies that the narrator is speaking PAST TENSE. The book starts off with her remembering the said year when her slumber began. These events ALREADY HAPPENED — we are learning them from her - a time frame beyond the title. Many of the reviews I’ve read criticized the book for being redundant, disgusting, or confusing. Mentions of ableist due to talks of retardation, etc. I don’t see it that way. That language reflects who the main character is: blunt, short-worded, harsh, and unfiltered. We learn this from the very beginning. Yes, this book delivers exactly what the summary promises. Our main character is sleeps away a year due based off many reasons to her. HOWEVER—if you’ve ever experienced depression or serious mental health struggles, you understand where she’s coming from. And I mean real depression, grief, apathy, disgust with the world—not simply “being sad” or “needing to get a grip.” Her attempt to drug herself into a year-long sleep is exaggerated, but not so unrealistic when you consider her mental state. Her end goal was to wake up as a new person. Believes that this project will set her up to be ready to “live again” when she awakens. Why does this matter? If you have ever: • Grieved: that made others uncomfortable • Felt annoyed/overwhelmed others concern • Realized too late what you had • Experienced true emotional numbness …then you understand this narrator. She has a nihilistic view of the world—apathy, emptiness, and a desire to escape without wanting to die. TONE: flat, emotionless, and repetitive. Why? Because that is how the narrator felt during that era. She is speaking from reflecting on a time in her life that she numbed from. This book clearly creates a split in readers depending on their life experiences and expectations: Opinion A: Enjoyed the book, appreciates the darkness, bleakness, and irony, understands the narrator’s background. Opinion B: Hated the book, found it gross, dehumanizing, regrets buying it, and believes it glorifies drugging oneself into oblivion. Opinion C: Neutral, found it okay, nothing special, nothing terrible. It’s obvious the author wrote this for a specific audience. She beautifully captures how life catches up fast, how people change, and how certain experiences shape us. DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TYPICAL “coming-of-age” novel. This is NOT that. This is narrating a past event where she slept for a whole year and what she got out of it. Most average readers are not the target audience. If you prefer happy endings, or filtered positivity, this is not your book. If you read the summary and then feel shocked that you are reading darkness… I’m not sure what to tell you. The narrator is also clearly OLDER RETELLING THE PAST: indicates she was (x) amount of years old during that year of her project. She was young and not where society expects emotional maturity or closure. She’s counting to her mistakes and behavior in ways that are messy or socially unacceptable. That’s real life. Things happen & it changes people. This novel simply shows what usually happens behind closed doors and within the mind. ALL IN ALL: I loved this book. I understand the main character. The juxtaposition and character foils work well. It’s straightforward with predictable outcomes—but that’s exactly what the summary sets up, so I don’t understand why some reviewers are confused. Sometimes it takes a jarring, painful awakening to make you feel differently about living.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thought provoking and a bit scary to read
*by P***E on October 10, 2018*

Reading this book was totally out of my comfort zone. It is a New Your Times best seller but isn’t a funny modern fiction or dramatic historical fiction book. Instead this book was super serious and a bit depressing, yet fascinating. It’s the year 2000 and our unnamed narrator is struggling. She is well educated, gorgeous, has a super easy job and is wealthy beyond belief. Yet, she’s incredibly unhappy. To deal with her angst and misery she decides to begin taking copious amounts of prescriptions meds prescribed by her completely unethical psychologist. At first she uses them to simply float through her life, but soon she sees potential to escape reality as she knows it. She keeps on taking more powerful drugs, resulting in the loss of her job and days where she has no recollection of her movements…and must piece together what happened by random voice messages and digging through her trash. Instead of scaring her straight, it encourages her to delve deeper into the darkness to totally escape feeling ANY emotion. This book is thought provoking, and a bit scary to read. After reading it, I can see how easy it would be to do exactly what the narrator does. At the end of the book I really had a new compassion for how hard it can be for some people to live through the many emotions that come up in daily life.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Don't read if you're depressed. Well written but drags on a bit.
*by R***A on May 15, 2025*

This book was entertaining and well written. Dark humor and sarcastic are always fun...But I will say about halfway through, it felt like the story was dragging out. The ended didn't make me happy, nor did it make angry. It just was. I suppose that's the energy of the book as well. I don't regret reading it necessarily. But it's depressing. So I'd suggest trying to have an alternate book to switch with to keep your spirits up. I say this as a person who relates to feeling quiet, sluggish and misunderstood often.

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