Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, The Modern Library’ Best 100 Novels, TIME 100 Best English Language Novels lists and it is ranked 158th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, alas, it is not one of my favorites – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where my macaws are the main attraction

 

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is included on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, The Modern Library’ Best 100 Novels, TIME 100 Best English Language Novels lists and it is ranked 158th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, alas, it is not one of my favorites – you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where my macaws are the main attraction

 

6 out of 10

 

The How of Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html is a magnificent book by Sonja Lyubomirsky in which you find the rules of happiness, or activities , including ‘Happiness Activity No 8: Increasing FLOW Experiences-increasing the number of experiences at home and working which you LOSE YOURSELF, which are challenging, absorbing’ and I was thinking about that

 

I have written in the first lines about the acclaim with which this novel was received, it is on The TIME 100, Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, and it is supposed to be 158th among The Greatest Books of All Time, at least according to the algorithm they use, I could not disagree with this

Notwithstanding this appreciation, I must say that it does not bring Flow for me, here are the conditions for that: you are in control, nothing else matters, formidable concentration, except the Wide Sargasso Sea does not keep me interested, for Flow, the experience has to be autotelic, and it is not, I do not have pleasure

 

Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html is best explained in the psychology which has that name, and furthermore, it is written by the co-founder of positive psychology, and the ultimate expert on the subject – you also need constant, instant feedback, time is relative

Meaning here that for a good book, you feel it flies, it is such a joy, when it is more of a pain, the opposite effect is observed, and then one is between boredom and burnout, challenged, but not overwhelmed, this principle is also not observed with Wide Sargasso Sea in my case, otherwise, the book seems to be a chef d’oeuvre

 

Then there is this green parrot, and I thought ‘there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so’ which is from Hamlet https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/hamlet-by-william-shakespeare.html in other words, I could be glad that there is this bird in there, for I also have two splendid macaws

Except, the fictional one, maybe based on some real pet Jean Rhys had, or knew of, has some of the unhappy habits that my own display these days: he sists on the shoulder, but snaps at other people, mine just fight each other, and have been neurotic for some time, because they want to nest, or something

Nevertheless, the poor green parrot from Wide Sargasso Sea has a terrible ending, which put me off, the wretched bird is set on fire, and because of the clipped wings there is nothing he can do but just suffer terribly, and then their horse dies too, poisoned by the people, when they start hating the white family, for some time, they had not cared, but then changed attitude

 

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