I just finished this book and I had to get the opinion of someone else who loved it as much as I did. Such a powerful read this was, one that will stay in my head for a while. thank you for this video!!

I just finished this book and I felt like I could've written a paper about it. I thought it was so smart and I was really looking for someone who encapsulate my thoughts, thank you so much for this video it really helped me understand what I was trying to understand!

I watched this, then went on Google play and found the audiobook... I feel like I'm back in University in one of my writing workshop classes. The rythm and styles and imagery... I love it!! 😊

Championing the stories of unfeminine femmes. From Keiko's unwitting resistance of gender roles to the more explicit refusal to conform while still embracing or flaunting sexuality and desire, the great unfeminising is writing it's next chapter! Next all dresses shall have pockets!

You look ethereal in this video! The hair in an updo looks great on you!

Watching your review while eating an apple. I just finished it last night, and tossed about before falling asleep, not sure of the takeaway I was meant to leave with. Letting it brew, and watching your review, I'm slowly piecing it together. What I can't deny, is that it felt like a safe place where my own idiosyncrasies were welcome, but it's also so much written as "horror" romance. There's perhaps a part of me, in my own shadow, that felt comfortable and excited by this book, while the "waking" self, the one with the "critical thinking" was made to feel like he was supposed to be disgusted. I felt a longing, even an envy for Jo. But I don't earnestly want to experience what these two went through. Right?

I needed this. Just finished it and am having difficulty understanding what I just read. Your explaining helped me understand some more. Still a bit of a fever dream that I am extremely confused about lmao.

I'm sure this book would be called called Sad Girl (or maybe Sad Woman), but Gross Woman should totally be considered a genre of fiction. 😊 Anyway it makes me so happy to hear you praising Paradise Rot! Jenny Hval has been one of my most favorite writers since I read Girls Against God (also translated by Marjam Idriss). I recently gave in to the urge to order a used copy and I'm even more excited to read it thanks to you. Novels that are sensual, sexual, and deal with temptation and bodies are my among my favorites to read. This will also 100% be my perfect novel. 😍 Oh, please read Girls Against God as well whenever you're able to. I love that novel so much. 😭

ever since I started reading what you recommend I've been enjoying reading so much and I've read like I hadn't before.

I've been wanting to read this book and your review is just the one last push that I need. You've said in your previous videos before that Frankenstein and convenience store woman is your favorite books and I totally gasped because SAME! Your review is so helpful and you always elaborate things so clearly, well done!

I just read this in the original Norwegian, and it was so fascinating. It now lies beside me on top of a box of slowly melting ice cream that will slowly be swelled out with mould and stink before I finally throw it in the bin. I am an Australian lesbian who moved to Norway. I feel like I know the places she mentions intimately; since Hval attended Melbourne university it is those tram lines that I remember, and that accent that strikes me so softly. I know Australian seaside towns, I know the places where the snow never arrives and everything turns a sad golden in the winter. Knowing that it has been translated fascinates me. So much of Hval's work plays intimately with the Norwegian language even despite the Anglo-Saxon setting. 'Jo' would be pronounced "Yo" in norwegian; the negative affirmative reply. "You haven't seen her, have you?" "Yo, I have." It is difficult to imagine this not having factored into Hval's work. As a college student, I do not have access to many novels, or reading time. But I find that this novel is like my Anti-Novel, my own story turned on its head and filled with a bile. It's an absolutely fascinating, thrilling experience.

i finished this book in one sitting and it was AMAZING. i just recently watched the movie “Mother!” and was finding so manny parallels and similarities between the two very different stories. absolutely loved this novel, i need to read something similar asap

I personally as an asexual am not a fan of sexual body stuff but I really appreciate seeing authors write more visceral things

I love your book reviews. I love your channel & passion. Thank you for what you do.

Your love talking about gross and weird books makes me curious every time. I'm reading more books in English because of your videos (I'm from Brazil). I can't thank you enough 🦊🖤 I really love how your expressions are telling us more about the books that any regular review with words.

Cool! Ive been binge watching your videos while i clean and work so i haven't really gotten the chance to comment but i really them! They got me to read sayaka murata and im really thankful for that since love her work and relate to some parts (not the incest) of it! Im never really felt human in a metaphorical way so reading that and similar works has been great! Im reading more then i have in years and now i kinda wanna dip my toes into writing too! ^-^

This book made me feel so accepting of my body that I read the final 20 or so pages in just my t-shirt and underwear. It felt really indulgent. 😳 Hope you don't mind me sharing that.

One of my favorites- thank you for highlighting this type of book. Leonora Carrington is the birth mom :)

Read the book by your recommendation and wow that was a ride! Ethereal writing, but I'm not sure what to make of the ending.

Paradise Rot has been in my top 3 must read for months!!! this is the push i needed brb

STUNNING REVIEW FOR A STUNNING BOOK BY A STUNNING YOU 💛💛💛🌟🌟🌟

I read Jenny’s other book, “Girls Against God” earlier this year and really didn’t enjoy it. The best bits were the visceral, weird and gross moments between the female characters, which sounds similar to Paradise Rot! The rest was a rambling stream of philosophical consciousness which I found really annoying. After telling myself I wouldn’t read another Hval novel, you’ve convinced me to pick this up! It sounds like a book full of the parts of Girls Against God that I did really love. Thank you!! ❤️

paradise rot is a perfect example of a modern gothic novel imo🖤🥀

Excited for this. Jenny Hval’s Blood Bitch album is one of my favourites of this decade

Hello this is unrelated but u look super pretty today yellow looks really nice on u

Love that color on you❤️❤️❤️

I'm not a big fiction reader and i LOVED this, looking for any similar book to it to subdue my appetite

Ooh I love those "gross women" too! Paradise Rot sounds magnificent

I love this review and I completely agree with everything you said about this book.

Yes to gross women fiction! Has to be my favourite subgenre as well

ever since i came up with your channel, i fell in love with reading again, thanks for you passion! btw you look amazing!... if you can could please talk about mexican authors?

You might enjoy Charlotte Roche's novel. I think it's called wetland in english.

i think its more likely that its set in western norway. western norway is everything you have ever heard of british weather, just much more. and mountains.

Did you wear yellow on purpose lol

Best review on this book couldn’t have explained it better myself 🤍