Autobiographie de ma mère vs Icarus: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Widowers, Belletristische Darstellung, Fiction
Autobiographie de ma mère
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white…
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Icarus
“THE DAY STARTED out beautifully for ten-year-old Jack Keller.”
In the 2003 album Full Circle by Dan Fogelberg there is a song called Icarus Ascending
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Autobiographie de ma mère is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 7 for Icarus.
- Autobiographie de ma mère has the widest readership — 6843 ratings behind its score.
- Autobiographie de ma mère runs the darker storyline; Icarus stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Autobiographie de ma mère | Icarus | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (6843) | 3.9 (776) |
| Hardcover | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (5) |
Reception
| Autobiographie de ma mère | Icarus | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 6843 | 776 |
| Editions | 29 | 15 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 9942 | 441 |
| Reading it now | 287 | 25 |
| Written reviews | 777 | 71 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 44023 |
| Pages | 240 | 416 |