Sure, people climb Mount Everest, and sure, people make rockets and put other people in them and send them to space, and allegedly there are people whSure, people climb Mount Everest, and sure, people make rockets and put other people in them and send them to space, and allegedly there are people who somehow eat three healthy and balanced meals a day, but have you ever reviewed a memoir?
That's the hardest thing I can fathom.
First of all, it's difficult because I tend to always like memoirs, and I have a hard time reviewing books I like simply due to lack of experience.
But secondly, and dare I say more importantly, even I think it's too much to say "hey, this story you constructed out of your real and often trauma-based experiences was not good enough for me, a random human."
Luckily, this was good, and so I don't have to do that.
And I'm not really going to say anything beyond that!
Bottom line: Memoirs forever!!!
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i have a frog in my throat.
but like...in the verge-of-tears sense. not the sick sense.
review to come / 4 stars
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one of my favorite pastimes is using every independent bookstore i come across as an excuse to buy books...more
laughter in the dark walked so gone girl could run.
this is beautifully written and cruel and funny. recommended for all evil girls in my life (my favolaughter in the dark walked so gone girl could run.
this is beautifully written and cruel and funny. recommended for all evil girls in my life (my favorite subcategory of people).
oh life!!
bottom line: i hate reviewing classics. this is good. the end.
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just doing some light beach reading
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yes i am adding this to my to-read list solely because it's being adapted into a film starring the love of my life anya taylor-joy. and that's okay....more
While reading this book, I was in such a terrible reading slump that getting through even a chapter of a book was a struggle.
I picked this 200-pager uWhile reading this book, I was in such a terrible reading slump that getting through even a chapter of a book was a struggle.
I picked this 200-pager up on a whim, thinking it looked interesting and quick and would help me stay ahead of my reading challenge. Instead, my slump made it arduous and lengthy, made me read every word deliberately.
And ultimately that was a gift.
This isn't a book that should be rushed through, like I would have done had I been able to. It should be read with care and slowness, to really absorb not only the lovely writing but the brilliant research and the one of a kind story.
Bottom line: A book so good it indirectly taught me to look on the bright side. ...more
is there a better feeling on earth than finding a book you've wanted to read for years for $3 in a used bookstore, and then it living up to your expecis there a better feeling on earth than finding a book you've wanted to read for years for $3 in a used bookstore, and then it living up to your expectations?
this was very sharp and very concise and very clever and very, very good.
i tried to be "normal" and spend my pool- and beach-filled vacation reading watery, beachy things, but it didn't work and i came back to this and i had a much better time doing it.
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bottom line: living the dream!
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going to read this as part of my lifelong quest to be a manic pixie dream girl on a level worthy of stalking...more
i’ve loved her since the first incarnation of my reading accounts, when i discovered a million junwelcome to my main character era.
i love emily henry.
i’ve loved her since the first incarnation of my reading accounts, when i discovered a million junes based on an act of love from the universe, probably, and never looked back.
i loved her fascinating, unique, sometimes creepy always lovely magical realism filled with banter and growth and stunning images.
when she moved to romance, her books felt less like My Books, ones written specifically for me, but it was kind of wonderful to see them be The Book for so many other people.
and then this one came along.
and i hate to center myself again, but…
just kidding. this is the same person who genuinely said yesterday that the rain was holding out for her walk home exclusively. i have no problem with indulging in narcissism, so:
this one feels pretty made for me.
i love sisters, and here our almost-as-important close-second relationship after the romance is between two crazy close sisters.
i love nora, our cold and tough and mean but on the inside very kind and lovely and of course book-obsessed protagonist. (it will come as no surprise that i relate to her. or, well, relate on the first and third points.)
i love charlie, who passes my single requirement for romance novel love interests with flying colors. (this single requirement is, of course, being obsessed beyond logic with our main character.)
i love banter. it is the best part of any romcom and it isn’t close. this has plenty.
i love having-it-all happy ever afters. i love when the magic perfect ending doesn’t just include love, but like 9 other neatly tied up subplots ending with confetti and rose petals or whatever too.
i love being a tall girl, and i love that this book recognizes our struggle!!!
i love dream jobs. i love tropes. i love mean-girl characters. i love little kids. i love books!!!
when it came to this book, it feels like — beyond my missing magical realism, and the not-very-enemies beginning of this enemies to lovers, and some excessive sister sneakiness — i loved (almost) it all.
bottom line: emily henry forever!!!
4.5
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there's no problem that can't be solved by rereading every emily henry book
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please respect my privacy at this time (deciding whether to give my third romance five star ever).
I assume that everyone wants to read a book that is like the young adult book equivalent of Get Out meets Gossip Girl, wiThis review is for: everyone.
I assume that everyone wants to read a book that is like the young adult book equivalent of Get Out meets Gossip Girl, with unlikely friendship and TWO gay relationships and mystery and solving and a tiny hint of dark academia.
So this is to tell everyone that you're right. This is good, and you do want to read it.
Enough said.
Bottom line: Things may not be as they seem IN this book, but they are as they seem about them!
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sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
review to come / 4 stars
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my hold on this book came in and i started reading immediately....more
I can always tell I really, truly liked a book, really felt it and enjoyed it, when one of two things occurs:
1) I spontaneously tear up at the ending.I can always tell I really, truly liked a book, really felt it and enjoyed it, when one of two things occurs:
1) I spontaneously tear up at the ending. 2) I immediately need to own a hardcover copy but hardcovers are hard to find so I do the unthinkable: Check eBay.
I did both of these things as soon as I finished.
This is a really good book.
Bottom line: One I will certainly come back to both physically and mentally!!!
Just got word - there's a new set of the coolest possible things you can be. 1) very into Shakespeare (can quote at length in casual conversation) 2) unJust got word - there's a new set of the coolest possible things you can be. 1) very into Shakespeare (can quote at length in casual conversation) 2) unbearably pretentious 3) complicit in a murder with your group of friends
You might think that the coolest things you can be might include traditional things, like "in possession of a motorcycle" or "a New York-based artist with family money" or "on some sort of high school athletic team / squad designated to cheer on said team."
But you'd be wrong.
Dark academia knocks all of those things out of the water.
I loved this book very much, as I love anything that even slightly reminds me of The Secret History, and anything that invests me insanely in a set of annoying (at best) or criminal (at worst) characters, and anything with a plot so twisty and intense that it makes my heart beat faster, and anything whose ending I dread (even as I found the book less and less interesting as it went on).
This is not a perfect book, but books with all of those traits are in short supply. And far be it from me to turn away any dark academia options.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Bottom line: Tell me any book that can help me relive the high of this one for even a second.
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my heartbeat has been elevated for like...3 straight hours.
and that is very unusual because i do not work out.
review to come / 4.5 stars
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WAY behind on my dark academia quotas. i'm going to lose my Allowed To Be Pretentious And Everyone Finds It Charming badge...more
I love to have an unpopular opinion. Nothing brings me more joy than the anger and fear of others in my comment sectiI am, as everyone knows, a hater.
I love to have an unpopular opinion. Nothing brings me more joy than the anger and fear of others in my comment section. My sole purpose in this life is to upset the people around me via literary takedowns and nothing else.
However.
I will never, ever, ever, EVER!!! DNF.
And this book is why.
I started out this book residing in Snooze City. I took a train to Sleepville with a one-way ticket, making stops in Boring Town, Dry Island, and Dull Junction. But I kept reading, because I'm stubborn.
And GUESS WHAT. It worked!
While this started out as a retelling that somehow managed to feel both too true to the original and not true enough, it turned into a crazy demonfest of magic and evil and Daisy and beautiful writing and more importantly, Daisy.
Another win for team refusing to learn from mistakes.
Bottom line: And another win for team Gatsby!
As in, team the book. Not team that bozo character.
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i've read many books that started out as a 4 star read and slowly became a 2 star, but this is my first time experiencing the inverse.
feels weird.
review to come / 4ish stars
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i am a person who is made up of 75% water, 25% strong opinions, and some of my very strongest are on the great gatsby. let's see how reading a retelling goes...more
People get gray hairs. Cookies get stale. Books get that amazing smell that is apparently just mold or mildew or someEverything, eventually, gets old.
People get gray hairs. Cookies get stale. Books get that amazing smell that is apparently just mold or mildew or something awful but we won't think about it because, to paraphrase Wesley from the Princess Bride, there is a shortage of perfect things in this world and it would be a shame to ruin this one. Comedians start being f*cked up and stop being funny and call it persecution.
Age comes for us all.
But one thing that will never get old is women writing works of literary fiction about hot girls losing their minds.
It's a timeless classic, relatable through the years. Whether it's a recent work of pseudo-historical fiction written in a bad time about the time that sort of cemented it that way, or a half-century old ode to the era it already was. The setting doesn't matter, the framing doesn't matter. Give me writing that's glossy or gross or both, a protagonist who's making it or faking it or neither, background characters who get it or don't or don't want to. I love it all.
For whatever reason, nothing makes me feel as seen as books like this. And nothing makes me feel as sure that everything will be okay as books where people feel the same way as I do, and think the same thoughts, and everything, ultimately, isn't.
Call me crazy.
Bottom line: I took my little self to the internet and paid above market value for a first-edition second-printing hardcover of this. In other words - this is a rave review.
for those not yet in the know - sorry for the negative impact this will have on your life, and: i have decided tomy becoming-a-genius project, part 12!
for those not yet in the know - sorry for the negative impact this will have on your life, and: i have decided to become a genius.
to accomplish this, i'm going to work my way through the collected stories of various authors, reading + reviewing 1 story every day until i get bored / lose every single follower / am struck down by a vengeful deity.
last month, i read only books by asian authors, but i didn't think ahead enough and connect my genius project to that. this month, as i read only books with LGBTQ+ authors/rep, i will make NO SUCH MISTAKE.
these are essays, not stories, but still. i make the rules and i say it counts.
DAY 1: INTRODUCTION: FEMINISM (N) PLURAL i very very much liked this but also now "feminism" doesn't look like a word. rating: 4.5
DAY 2: FEEL ME. SEE ME. HEAR ME. REACH ME. this was kind of a weird mishmash of different things and felt all over the place. which is cool but maybe not ideal for the second entry in a collection of essays? i'm still trying to find my footing here, man. can't just throw me in the damn pool. (that happened to me once in my final year of swim lessons, which was the pre-swim team level. some lady literally pushed me into the pool. guess what? i didn't join the swim team.) (in fairness there is not a snowball's chance in hell i would've joined it voluntarily regardless, but amping up the scope of this trauma convinced my mom it would have been cruel and unusual to make me. so.) rating: 3
DAY 3, PART 1: PECULIAR BENEFITS i just realized there are like 42 essays in this story so...going to amp this up and read 2 a day. i don't have it in me to be reading the same book for a month and a half right now. this is, like...a good if not groundbreaking piece about privilege. rating: 3.25
DAY 3, PART 2: TYPICAL FIRST YEAR PROFESSOR i do not like the condescension toward what students wear in this - it's college? we're supposed to have grown out of high school dress code you're being distracting mentality. also it seems a little, uh, non-self-aware to use space in your essay collection about feminism to call out ways women don't dress appropriately in your eyes (sweatpants with words across the ass, bra straps exposed) that are actually kind of like. fine? anyway. if i'm not being persnickety and getting hung up on the contents of one paragraph i can admit i thought this one was very honest and sweet and good. rating: 4
DAY 4, PART 1: TO SCRATCH, CLAW, OR GROPE CLUMSILY OR FRANTICALLY "I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem." goals tbh. turns out i enjoy reading about competitive scrabble. rating: 3.75
DAY 4, PART 2: HOW TO BE FRIENDS WITH ANOTHER WOMAN immediately i am nervous about this because never once have i needed instructions on this subject. this also fairly quickly includes the sentence "If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you," which i agree with but also feels like an admission that this whole essay is pretty unnecessary. i don't know why i'm being grumpy. this is actually very sweet. rating: 4
DAY 5, PART 1: GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS the beginning of this i loved very much. i wish this was a little more autobiographical. then again i am addicted to memoirs, so it could be that. rating: 3.75
DAY 5, PART 2: I ONCE WAS MISS AMERICA this made me want to read the sweet valley high books, which is a statement i never expected to write. rating: 4
DAY 6, PART 1: GARISH, GLORIOUS SPECTACLES the first part of this is mostly talking about two books, but then i wanted to read the two books so i didn't want them spoiled for me, so i kind of skimmed it to avoid getting too much of the stories, but then the rest of it was using the lens just created using those two books to analyze reality TV, so i feel like i didn't quite get so much out of this as i could have. no rating
DAY 6, PART 2: NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS this is an essay in large part about how silly it is to say a character is unlikable as a criticism of a story - which is also something i've been thinking about a lot lately. as i get older, i appreciate unlikable characters more, and also less and less often think of an unlikable character as a negative aspect of a story. this makes me want to go through every review i've ever written and redo it. also it excerpts the gone girl cool girl monologue, which is always a plus in my book. rating: 4.5
DAY 7, PART 1: HOW WE ALL LOSE this essay really made me regret reading anything by caitlin moran. f*ck you, caitlin moran. this essay also made me feel very validated in how much i was unable to enjoy The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao because of the unconscionable and unrelenting sexism, which everyone in my freshman-year lit class hated me for pointing out. (this is probably the 100th time i've mentioned.) and thirdly, this essay made me really hope the lit-crit essays stop coming one after another. is that the whole book? go back please. rating: 3.75
DAY 7, PART 2: REACHING FOR CATHARSIS: GETTING FAT RIGHT (OR WRONG) AND DIANA SPECHLER'S SKINNY this was so excellent. we need more addresses of fatphobia like this. rating: 4.5
DAY 8, PART 1: THE SMOOTH SURFACES OF IDYLL "Sometimes, and especially as a writer, I feel like I have no idea what happiness is, what it looks like, what it feels like, how to show it on the page." to quote john mulaney: THAT'S THE THING I'M SENSITIVE ABOUT! rating: 4.25
DAY 8, PART 2: THE CARELESS LANGUAGE OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE bold move of me to spend my morning reading essays with titles like this one! what a way to start the day, and so on. this has some very good insights and a compelling thesis and it was so insanely short. rating: 4
DAY 9, PART 1: WHAT WE HUNGER FOR whoa. rating: 4.5
DAY 9, PART 2: THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY / THE SAFETY OF ILLUSION i find this a very outdated and deliberately inconsiderate view of trigger warnings - especially because people rarely, if ever, expect trigger warnings from the author themselves and will instead seek them out from readers. going out of your way to get irritated about something no one is asking for is very terminally online behavior (derogatory). rating: 1
DAY 10, PART 1: THE SPECTACLE OF BROKEN MEN this was kind of a presentation of facts, as far as these things go, but i'm not sure how one would even present an opinion on this. obviously famous athletes include violent criminals in their number; obviously this is a bad thing; obviously it's an inextricable part of professional sports and it's hard to imagine how to address something so pervasive. rating: 3.5
DAY 10, PART 2: A TALE OF THREE COMING OUT STORIES this one is weird because it literally says that supporting musicians like tyler the creator is wrong to do, because he uses homophobic slurs in his music. but tyler the creator is queer, so i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be getting out of this. no rating
DAY 11, PART 1: BEYOND THE MEASURE OF MEN another good if very done-before discussion of "women's fiction" that made me glad i deleted my chick lit shelf recently. i just think the name chick lit is cute. rating: 3.5
DAY 11, PART 2: SOME JOKES ARE FUNNIER THAN OTHERS again, i mean, yeah. this is correct. rating: 3.5
DAY 12, PART 1: TO THE YOUNG LADIES WHO LOVE CHRIS BROWN SO MUCH THEY WOULD LET HIM BEAT THEM this one was very, very good. rating: 4.5
DAY 12, PART 2: BLURRED LINES, INDEED another excellent one. rating: 4.5
DAY 13, PART 1: THE TROUBLE WITH PRINCE CHARMING, OR HE WHO TRESPASSED AGAINST US my library loan of this expires tomorrow and even though there is a beautiful renew button it is merely a torture device i cannot use, so i'm going to try to finish this today. day 13 will have a lot of parts. honestly i wish this was more about fairytales and romance novels in general than just fifty shades, but this is still necessary criticism, i guess. though i think most people are already aware their dream relationship shouldn't be based off fifty shades? rating: 3.25
DAY 13, PART 2: THE SOLACE OF PREPARING FRIED FOODS AND OTHER QUAINT REMEMBRANCES FROM 1960S MISSISSIPPI: THOUGHTS ON THE HELP i read the help when i was in 5th grade and i loved it, something i now find (before reading this essay and to be honest even more so after) very embarrassing and will rectify with a reread and re-review soon. rating: 4.5
DAY 13, PART 3: SURVIVING DJANGO this was very f*cking good. i apologize for being cranky at how much of this is criticism - the author is truly great at it. rating: 5
DAY 13, PART 4: BEYOND THE STRUGGLE NARRATIVE i don't know if 12 Years a Slave, being as it is based on the actual story of a slave as he told it, is the best candidate for a lot of this critique, but the unwillingness of critics / awards ceremonies to praise Black movies that aren't about Black pain is a really goddamn needed one. rating: 3.75
DAY 13, PART 5: THE MORALITY OF TYLER PERRY when the critique is one of a kind and complex >>>> that's probably the dorkiest thing i've ever said. rating: 4.25
DAY 13, PART 6: THE LAST DAY OF A YOUNG BLACK MAN all right. i will come back to this and finish it either later today or tomorrow because bingeing all these stories like this is antithetical to the whole of the genius project!!! this was seemingly more summary than criticism? more time was spent detailing the events that occurred in fruitvale station than really analyzing them. rating: 3.5
DAY 13.5, PART 1: WHEN LESS IS MORE let's do this. (it's technically the night of day 13 but we will forgive that transgression.) (okay originally i labeled this day 14 but now i'm going back and changing it to 13.5.) i have never seen orange is the new black (my cultural ignorance is REALLY showing in this genius project) but this was a good critique of it. i think. rating: 4
DAY 13.5, PART 2: THE POLITICS OF RESPECTABILITY still night of day 13. there are 8 more stories. imagine how long this would have taken me if i'd done it normally. i don't really think it's my place to rate this one but i thought it was excellent. no rating
DAY 13.5, PART 3: WHEN TWITTER DOES WHAT JOURNALISM CANNOT i am both twitter's biggest fan and biggest hater so i'm eagerly anticipating this one. also follow me on twitter. i'm on there even more than here. as expected i loved this. rating: 4.5
DAY 13.5, PART 4: THE ALIENABLE RIGHTS OF WOMEN i truly think that to be anti-choice is one of the least empathetic things you can be. i have known many people who quietly believe they know better than others, in broad strokes and in sweeping declarations. i have had very real feelings very recently (even maybe now) for people who feel that they know better than women at large, even as they are typically very caring and kind people. it is the most discombobulating thing. anyway. i'm on Nexplanon and i adore it even though it makes me bleed unpredictably from the vagina. such is the world we live in. rating: 4.5
DAY 13.5, PART 5: HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO i kind of lost the thread of this one, unfortunately. rating: 3.5
DAY 14, PART 1: A TALE OF TWO PROFILES okay. it's officially day 14; i am coming to you live from a moving vehicle but i took a horrific motion sickness pill so i will hopefully survive reading; i was wine drunk and reeling from a surprise loss to my basketball team of choice last night so i apologize if i were more R-rated than my typical PG-13. however it is important to me that i maintain my reputation as the cool book nerd who gets laid. the profile / profiling through line here is so satisfying and extraordinarily well done. rating: 4.5
DAY 14, PART 2: THE RACISM WE ALL CARRY the running theme of my experience with these stories is that they all feel like they were written very quickly and effortlessly by a very smart person - but with editing and further reflection they could be better. this story about the "rules of racism" describes the paula deen deposition and relates an anecdote, but there's very little in between and it's FRUSTRATING. rating: 3.75
DAY 14, PART 3: TRAGEDY. CALL. COMPASSION. RESPONSE. this one still fell under the irritating category i outlined above, but i liked it anyway. rating: 4.25
DAY 14, PART 4: BAD FEMINIST: TAKE ONE honestly i think the ways roxane gay claims to be a bad feminist are the ways that make her version of feminism so appealing. rating: 4
DAY 14, PART 5: BAD FEMINIST: TAKE TWO what i just said, but even more so. rating: 5
OVERALL this collection felt, at many points, half-baked to me, but it's to the credit of roxane gay that even when it seems as though she's not trying very hard to carry across a point, the point itself (and really the way her brain operates) is interesting enough in and of itself. aka i will read more stuff by her. rating: 4
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reading all books with LGBTQ+ rep for pride this month!
i can recall many in my life. when i was 13, for example, and i thought that the height of fashion was a graphic twe all have our periods of delusion.
i can recall many in my life. when i was 13, for example, and i thought that the height of fashion was a graphic tee that said AEROPOSTALE in huge letters on the front, paired with a simple and understated pair of black fake uggs.
or most of my childhood, which i spent convinced i was destined to marry either joe jonas (the obvious best of the brothers) or my neighbor who once threw a snowball directly at my face — whoever showed up first.
or when i read this book, which i recalled as being cute and fluffy and one of the only romances i have ever given five stars, and lent to my mom.
this book IS cute and fluffy, in many ways, and talia hibbert Does It Again.
BUT THIS BOOK ALSO CONTAINS MANY, MANY MENTIONS OF A GIANT, COLORFUL, VERY ACTIVE DILDO.
AND I LENT IT TO MY MOTHER.
in fact, i generally misremembered this book, which is no longer 1 of 2 romances i've ever given five stars. it is funny, and it is fun, but it isn't the things i require in my perfect love stories (namely, mostly yearning and suffering). it is mostly silly and sexy.
and there is nothing wrong with that.
unless, and i can't stress this enough, you are thinking of book recommendations to give your poor, sweet, innocent mother.
bottom line: sorry mom.
(sidenote: this has been another installment of PROJECT 5 STAR)
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(view spoiler)[Do you ever have the food you've been craving at exactly the moment you're craving it?
That fasting-for-Thanksgiving feeling of finally sitting at the table, except for if turkey and canned cranberry sauce were ever everything it's cracked up to be. So more like pizza by the slice in the salt air and setting sun of the boardwalk after a day on the beach, or takeout-dim-sum pork buns and scallion pancakes when you've forgotten to eat and are suddenly hollow-stomached, or FINALLY experiencing the toothachey sugar of a warm cinnamon roll, which always take like eight times longer to make than expected.
That's what reading a good romance feels like after dozens of mediocre ones.
This is a perfect romance, for me.
I loved the brash kind protagonist. I loved the shy rough around the edges sweet love interest. I loved the fun dialogue, I loved (for once in my life!) the steamy scenes, I loved the complicated loving family, and I loved watching these two miscommunicate and yell and fall in love.
I blushed, I smiled, I heart-hurted, I winced. It's everything I want.
I thought the first book in this series was good. I thought the second was not. This was something else altogether.
I hope this holds up on reread.
Bottom line: Enemies to lovers wins again! (hide spoiler)]
They always feel like a total of 46 words long, and my reviews always feel like approximately 10,000, so wriI never know how to review graphic novels.
They always feel like a total of 46 words long, and my reviews always feel like approximately 10,000, so writing much of anything seems silly and self-indulgent.
So I'm just going to say I liked this very much and move along.
Bottom line: I should do this every time!!
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now i extra can't believe i hadn't read a graphic novel yet.
this took me like half an hour to read AND it was excellent.
review to come / 4 stars
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i've read literary fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, contemporaries, romances, essays, chick lit, classics, and children's books this month.
which is a long-winded way of saying i can't believe i haven't read a graphic novel yet.
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taking lily's idea and reading only books by asian authors this month!
i'm not going to review this beyond saying that everyone should read about this time in history. we should all reckon with this.i'm not going to review this beyond saying that everyone should read about this time in history. we should all reckon with this....more
One, this concept - a set of four siblings who go to a psychic who tells them when they will die, and thenI have two sets of feelings about this book.
One, this concept - a set of four siblings who go to a psychic who tells them when they will die, and then following them one by one through the decades as the predictions come true - is the best book idea I have read in recent memory.
Two, HOW DARE CHLOE BENJAMIN MURDER MY FAMILY.
I cannot read a good book about a family - especially about siblings - without coming out the other side thinking they are really related to me, in real life.
Finishing a book that fits this description is a heartbreak in and of itself, because you're saying goodbye to your loved ones, if you're the same kind of insane that I am.
But this is even more heartbreaking than usual.
Not a perfect book, and a very painful one, but beautifully written and filled with characters I truly love.
I'm going to go cry quietly now.
Bottom line: NEVER AGAIN.
Just kidding. If you hear about a well written literary fiction book about siblings hit me up immediately.
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aaaaaaaaand now i'm tearing up.
god damn. i hate when books ruin my steely reputation.
review to come / 4 stars
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whenever i hear about someone reading on a bus or a train or in a park or whatever i picture them reading this book, which i have not read, and which i know nothing about.
not sure what that says about me, but it's true.
clear ur sh*t book 50 quest 23: opulent cover...more
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