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So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

3.0

“Me: am I allowed 2 be good and evil at the same time? Higher self: look around, bb. that’s all there is.”

This was a very long tumblr post

Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

4.0

“‘They will say I failed or that I’m a fool.’
‘My dear,’ William says, ‘the honor was theirs.’”

Absolutely gorgeous, lyrical, and clever writing.

Here, The World Entire by Anwen Kya Hayward

4.0

“I can’t imagine a more fitting downfall for a girl with the audacity to be lovely. That deserves punishment, or so I’m told.”

“Atlas’ burden is only the world. I wish that were all I carried on my shoulders.”

Gorgeous, modern, and unique retelling of Medusa.

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum

4.0

Thoughtful, conversational, unexpected

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.0

“You look back two, three generations, as far as you can. You won’t find love. We are incapable of such a thing.”

Very spooky and very weird and very much responsible for my new mushroom phobia

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

5.0

“I had vowed to find it within myself to see what I didn’t understand as adventure rather than a particular kind of hell, to be someone who was moved by other people’s attempts to be good and had the ability to sense the love in a room before anything else, but it was too hard. I could not.”

Genuine and beautifully written

There There by Tommy Orange

5.0

“I feel something not unlike hope.”

Ok I need a second for my thoughts on this

Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz

4.0

“Which Lord of the Rings character are you, based on your eating disorder?”

Great now I gotta go back and read all of the options I didn’t pick

I Am Not Your Final Girl by Claire C. Holland

5.0

“It’s not the Devil you need to worry about,
but the devil you know.”

Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey, Dana Vachon

1.0

I mean those are certainly all words